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Year 4 consultation process &

initial proposals related to Leader

Adrian Neal - ENRD Contact Point

�ENRD CC survey (deadline 25th May)

�NRN consultation (April/May)

�On-line forum for CC (April/May)

�Publications & website surveys (May/June)

�Leader Sub-committee (17th May )

�Coordination Committee (9th June )

Year 4 on-going consultation process

….collecting and telling more ‘rural’ stories

….sharing more knowledge and experience

Ensuring, demonstrating and measuring ENRD

‘value-added’

TWG4: Reaching out:

� Targeted publications on findings for specific stakeholder groups (e.g. MAs)

� Seminar in Brussels – launching platform for future programme support

RDP Projects Database:

� More postcards / Videos – featured LAG initiatives

Monitoring indicators:

� Developing more accessible products – ‘snapshots’ on Axis 4 measures

Highlights - Building upon thematic work

Possible new Focus Group on

Local Development Strategies

ENRD Magazine

Revamped My ENRD On-line Community

Possible new developments:

• New ‘LAGs forum’ to promote

cooperation & exchange

• Open access forum for wider

stakeholder engagement on

certain issues

Revamped TNC Guide

Upgrade existing and develop new TNC support tools

– Geographical map of LAGs

– Upgrade LAG and Co-operation Offer databases

– Develop TNC-approved project database

Support to TNC events

– (co)-organisation/support of TNC events organised by

NRNs or LAGs

Linking joint NRN activities/geographical clusters to TNC

Ideas for future

Transnational Cooperation support

� Enhanced partnerships with NRNs: Identifying

opportunities for reciprocal exchange, training materials,

projects etc.

� Support to experience-sharing between LAGs: Multi-

media capacity-building package on main-streamed

Leader implementation – The ‘Leader Gateway’

Possible capacity building linked to Leader

Rural Entrepreneurship Gateway

Welcome to the LEADER Gateway

You will find here a selection of resources covering many aspects of Leader,

including useful tools, guidance documents, presentations, examples of Leader

in action and much more

You can begin exploring the Gateway by clicking on one of the buttons below.

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Approach

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Action Group

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Actions

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Training materials

Cooperation

Leader Gateway

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Leader tools

Training materials

Cooperation

Rural Entrepreneurship Gateway

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Leader tools

Training materials

Cooperation

The Local Action Group

Rural Entrepreneurship Gateway

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Leader tools

Training materials

Cooperation

The Strategy

Rural Entrepreneurship Gateway

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Leader tools

Training materials

Cooperation

Projects and Actions

Date Event Location

MAY

17th ENRD - Leader subcommittee meeting Brussels, Belgium

JUNE

2nd Latvian event: Effectiveness of RDPs-Monitoring & Evaluating

networks

Riga, Latvia

7th Polish meeting to prepare Leader conference in October Brussels, Belgium

8th ENRD - working group: Short supply chains/local food Brussels, Belgium

9th ENRD - Coordination Committee meeting Brussels, Belgium

14th ENRD - Thematic Working Group 4 meeting Brussels, Belgium

14th – 15th Development of Estonian Rural Economy / Ensuring Food Security Tartu, Estonia

14th – 16th ENRD Local finance work group + Swedish local finance conference Uppsala, Sweden

15th – 16th ELARD meeting – global LAGs Helsinki, Finland

21st – 23rd Lithuanian LAGs cooperation event Druskininkai, Lithuania

23rd – 24th Italian Forestry congress Rome, Italy

28th ENRD – Extra NRN meeting on Communication Brussels, Belgium

JULY

1st – 3rd Finnish Agri-Fair Pori, Finland

ENRD provisional calendar: 2011

Date Event Location

SEPTEMBER

23rd - 26th Polish ‘Agroshow’ Fair Bednary, Poland

28th – 29th Seminar (Finnish / NRNs / ENRD): EU strategy for Baltic

Sea Region & RDPs

Helsinki, Finland

TBC ENRD - Possible 13th NRN meeting

OCTOBER

3rd – 5th Polish conference on ‘Leader approach after 2013

against new challenges for the development of rural

areas of Europe’

Katowice, Poland

NOVEMBER

11th Italian NRN / ENRD event: ‘Communicating rural

development to citizens’

Milano, Italy

17th ENRD - Leader Sub-committee Brussels, Belgium

DECEMBER

8th ENRD - Coordination committee

9th ENRD - TWG 4 (delivery mechanisms) seminar Brussels, Belgium

TBC ENRD - Possible 14th NRN meeting TBC

Provisional calendar of meetings and events: 2011

So, what

do you

think?