ENRD Seminar on 'LEADER: Acting Locally in a Changing World'

This ENRD Seminar explored the current and future roles of LEADER, including its added value in different thematic areas as well as where and how it can contribute more widely, beyond the local rural context.

The event brought together representatives from Local Action Groups (LAGs), Managing Authorities and National Rural Networks (NRNs) and featured keynote presentations, exchange of practical examples, working groups and study trips.

The Seminar was organised in partnership with the Austrian Federal Ministry for Sustainability and Tourism, Austrian Rural Network support unit and LAG Nordburgenland Plus.

Background documents

Presentations

Introduction, John Grieve, ENRD Contact Point & Michael Fischer, Austrian Rural Network support unit
Keynote speech: The importance of demonstrating LEADER achievements, John Grieve, ENRD Contact Point
Keynote speech: LEADER’s place, role and contribution: Now and in the future, Peter Wehrheim, Member of Cabinet of Commissioner Phil Hogan & Karolina Jasinska-Mühleck, DG AGRI
The Austrian approach to LEADER: Supporting prosperous rural areas, Ulrike Rauch-Keschmann, Director General for Tourism and Regional Policy, Austrian Federal Ministry of Sustainability and Tourism
The Austrian approach to LEADER: Implementation and delivery, Christa Rockenbauer-Peirl, Deputy Director, Innovation, Local Development and Cooperation, Austrian Federal Ministry of Sustainability and Tourism

The LEADER approach: adding value

ENRD LAG survey highlights, Susan Grieve, ENRD Contact Point
ENRD Practitioner-led Working Groups, Peter Toth, ENRD Contact Point
Feedback from the discussion groups

LEADER success factors: LAG examples

Changing perceptions: attracting people to the countryside (VIDEO), ‘Landsbyggare’ LAG, Sweden (see an overview of the initiative)
2020 Goal: digital territory, ‘Pays de Verdun’ LAG, France (see an overview of the initiative)
Building a food ecosystem, ‘Pays de Condruses’ LAG, Belgium (see an overview of the initiative)
Pembrokeshire Local Action Network for Enterprise and Development, ‘PLANED’, Wales, UK (see an overview of the initiative)
Walking trails (VIDEO), Lesvos Local Development Company, Greece (see an overview of the initiative)
Examples from Luxembourg, Françoise Bonert, Ministry of Agriculture, Luxembourg (see an overview of the initiative)

LEADER Local Development Strategies

Urban-Rural Partnerships, LAG Traunviertler Alpenvorland
Bioeconomy – the potential of wood and forests, LAG Holzwelt Murau
Demographic change, LAG Nockregion-Oberkärnten
Valorising natural resources and securing biodiversity, LAG nordburgenland plus
Creative Industries: impacts on tourism and education, LAG Oststeirisches Kernland
Sustainable mobility, LAG Lebens.Wert.Pongau
CLLD and multi-funds, LAG Regionalmanagement regio³
Civil society, youth and vital villages, LAG Regio-V
Sustainable community development: youth, participation and vital villages, LAG Römerland Carnuntum
LEADER building social inclusion: integration, civil society and education, LAG nordburgenland plus
Valorising and protecting the region’s natural potential: nature tourism, biodiversity and digitisation, LAG nordburgenland plus

Photo gallery

Dates:

15/10/2018 - 09:00 to 17/10/2018 - 17:00

Location:

Rust,

Austria

Event type:

Seminar

Organiser:

ENRD Contact Point