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Call for new EU CAP Network Focus Groups open!
Forest health, wool value chain, on-farm energy: apply to the call for EU CAP Network Focus Group experts by 9 July 2025.
- Innovation, knowledge exchange & EIP-AGRI
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LEADER for community resilience and security
Speaking with LEADER stakeholders in five countries bordering the Russian Federation, we learnt about LEADER ambitions, its current implementation and its role for community resilience and security.
- CAP Implementation
Bringing the EU to the kitchen table: communicating LEADER
Rural development tools like LEADER are more than funding mechanisms - they are bridges between the European Union and citizens. Effective communication can bring the EU to the kitchen table!
- CAP Implementation
Estimating the climate change mitigation potential of the EU’s CAP Strategic Plans
The study, coordinated by the European Evaluation Helpdesk for the CAP, provides a meaningful first step in evaluating how the agricultural sector can support the EU’s climate ambitions.
- Evaluation
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Integrated for impact: Czechia’s multi-fund CLLD model shows the way
Community-Led Local Development (CLLD) is not just LEADER with a new name. It’s about unlocking the full potential of EU funds- together. Czechia offers an inspiring example.
- CAP Implementation
Smart Villages in Lithuania: innovations for rural future
Lithuania’s journey towards smarter and more resilient rural communities is gaining momentum with the introduction of the Smart Villages (SV) in the Lithuanian CAP Strategic Plan (CSP).
- CAP Implementation
Networking with LEADER in spring 2025
The EU CAP Network's team has been busy networking for and with LEADER in the last few months. Here's a recap of the main events we have attended!
- CAP Implementation
Tackling disinformation
Rural communities, like the whole of society, are prone to disinformation- a major challenge for European democracies. An overview of actions taken at the EU level and a 'whole-of-society' approach.
- CAP Implementation
Bringing the EU to the kitchen table: communicating LEADER
Rural development tools like LEADER are more than funding mechanisms - they are bridges between the European Union and citizens. Effective communication can bring the EU to the kitchen table!
- CAP Implementation
Networking insights: geographical cluster meetings in early 2025
This is a round-up of the latest meetings of the geographical clusters, where National Networks exchange and collaborate on activities tailored to their regional contexts.
- CAP Implementation
