Luxembourg launches new LEADER LAGs
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New Local Action Groups (LAGs) are starting work around rural Europe this year. These include Luxembourg’s group of new LAGs, which were officially launched recently.
Our latest LEADER newsletter highlights the broad potential for LEADER in the 2023 to 2027 CAP period from the new Local Action Groups (LAGs) that are starting operations around rural Europe this year. These include Luxembourg’s group of new LAGs, which were officially launched recently.
Since LEADER’s start in 1991, Luxembourg has been a pioneer of the bottom-up approach for supporting community-led local development in the Grand Duchy. Throughout these three decades Luxembourg LAGs have been instrumental in rolling out many benefits for rural areas. This has included developing a strong track record in attracting transnational co-operation partnerships with other Member States.
LEADER in Luxembourg continues to enjoy a good reputation among rural communities and the Grand Duchy’s LAGs are known for being helpful, reliable sources of localised support for socio-economic and environmental projects. Municipalities and other local stakeholders will go on to work closely together to support each other within the country’s 2023-2027 LEADER-budget, which is putting “people and the principle of cooperation” at the heart of LAG activities. Innovation and added value will remain cornerstones for LAG support to citizen-led local projects. An early innovation example has involved adopting a new visual identity for LEADER LAGs in Luxembourg.
LAG funding is being targeted to invest in people's creativity and ideas. Closer cooperation with the national measures for village development is planned. More success is expected in sectors where Luxembourg LAGs have made notable achievements in the past, such as agriculture, regional products, tourism, culture, social inclusion and lifelong learning. Transnational cooperation in these types of LEADER arenas can be possible in part thanks to the multilingual rural population, as most people living in the countryside speak at least three languages well.
You can find out more about LEADER in Luxembourg and the country’s LAGs from the Ministry of Agriculture.