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ARIA 2025: Meet the winners!
What are the greenest, smartest, most socially inclusive, innovative and resilient Common Agriculture Policy (CAP) projects? Which initiatives sustain rural economies and actively involve young people in shaping the future of rural communities?
For the third consecutive year, the Agricultural and Rural Inspiration Awards (ARIA) highlighted projects through which CAP stakeholders are ‘shaping tomorrow together'.
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Meet the winners of ARIA 2025!
Meet the winners and highly commended projects of the Agricultural and Rural Inspiration Awards - ARIA 2025 and relive the emotions of the closing ceremony!
- CAP Implementation
Rural women shaping the future: ARIA 2025 Gender Equality awards
The special awards help foster a new mindset, whereby any project is analysed in terms of how much it promotes gender equality – and vice versa, how equality can be embedded in any CAP-funded project.
- CAP Implementation
Workshop on assessing CAP income and sectoral support in Zagreb
The event was organised by the National CAP Network and the Croatian Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, with the support of the European Evaluation Helpdesk for the CAP.
- Evaluation
CAP networking updates – winter 2025
The EU CAP Network team reports from two recent networking cluster meetings in Lithuania and Portugal, discussing preparations for the future CAP and generational renewal.
- CAP Implementation
Upcoming Events
EU CAP Network workshop 'Sensing the future: practical applications of proximal and remote sensing for farmers and advisors'
- Innovation, knowledge exchange & EIP-AGRI
SafeHabitus Policy Workshop | Ethical trade market mechanisms to promote health and safety in agriculture
- CAP Implementation
Latest publications
EU CAP Network Workshop on the Use of Simplified Cost Options in the CAP
The workshop enabled national authorities, beneficiaries, auditors and other stakeholders to exchange on how SCOs are currently used, with a view to encouraging greater use of them in the future.
- CAP Implementation
2nd Thematic Group meeting on Improving Water Resilience in Rural Areas through the CAP
This was the second and last meeting of this Thematic Group (TG), which examine how to best utilise the CAP’s potential for improving water resilience in rural areas.
- CAP Implementation
EU CAP Network seminar ‘On-farm demonstrations for peer-to-peer learning & innovation’
This report presents the main results of the EU CAP Network seminar ‘On-farm demonstrations for peer-to-peer learning & innovation’, which was held on 17-18 June 2025 in Mestre, Venice, Italy.
- Innovation, knowledge exchange & EIP-AGRI
Support to
CAP Implementation
As an integral part of the EU CAP Network, the CAP Implementation Contact Point supports and coordinates networking activities relating to the design and implementation of the CAP’s strategic plans.
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Innovation & knowledge exchange | EIP-AGRI
'Innovation & knowledge exchange | EIP-AGRI’'s role is to facilitate communication and cooperation between those with a keen interest in sharing knowledge and innovative ideas for sustainable agriculture, forestry and rural areas.
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Evaluation
The European Evaluation Helpdesk for the CAP provides tailored support to EU Member States and the European Commission in their evaluations of agriculture and rural development policy.
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LEADER
LEADER is a local development method which has been used for 30 years to engage local actors in the design and delivery of strategies, decision-making and resource allocation for the development of their rural areas.
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National CAP networks have a key role in steering and driving forward policy as well as promoting stakeholder engagement, knowledge sharing and capacity building for EU Member States and other actors.
Find out moreLAG Directory
The EU CAP Network LAG Directory brings together in one place the contact details for the new LEADER Local Action Groups (LAGs) created in the 2023-2027 programming period.
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