Meet ARIA 2024 winners!
Discover the six winners of the Agricultural and Rural Inspiration Awards! Get a glimpse of the exciting ceremony held on 4 December and discover outstanding CAP-funded projects that are truly making a difference for European rural areas.
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EU CAP Network cross-visits 2025 - call for hosting EIP-AGRI Operational Groups
Apply to become a host for one of the three new EU CAP Network cross-visits for Operational Groups.
ARIA 2024: meet the winners!
Discover the six winners of the Agricultural and Rural Inspiration Awards - ARIA2024, and celebrate outstanding CAP-funded projects that are truly making a difference for European rural areas!
Innovation Market at the Finnish Agricultural Machinery Trade Fair
Finnish and Estonian Operational Groups showcase what is happening in R&D in agriculture, forestry, and horticulture.
ARIA 2024 – Focus on the Gender Equality Award
In the latest editions of the ARIA – Agricultural and Rural Inspiration Awards, an impressive 95% of the shortlisted projects actively involved women. The new ARIA Gender Equality Award highlighted women's crucial role for rural Europe.
Latest publications
Highlights report - 4th meeting of the Forum on Best Practices in the Agri-Food Supply Chain
Discussions and thought-provoking presentations at the Forum enabled participants to explore how strategic business relationships, cooperation and the business benefit to producers in the value chain.
Strategic Framework of the EU CAP Network
The Strategic Framework serves as a basis for monitoring and assessing the contribution of the activities of the EU CAP Network against its networking objectives, as established by CAP regulation.
Report - Subgroup on CAP Strategic Plans - 4th meeting
Members of this governance body of the EU CAP Network gathered in Brussels to share policy updates, experiences, and valuable insights on two years of implementation of the CAP Strategic Plans (CSPs).
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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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