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These guidelines provide the minimum and recommended content for Member States’ evaluation plans for the 2023-27 programming period.

The theme of RIA 2022 was ‘The Future is Youth’, inspired jointly by 2022 being the European Year of Youth, the long-term vision for rural areas, and the Rural Pact, developed by the European Commission. RIA 2022 sought to promote the importance of European youth to build a better future for rural Europe.

This issue of the EU CAP Network’s Projects Brochure presents the 24 finalists selected by the expert jury and highlights the winners of each category and of the Popular Vote.

This is the final output of the EU CAP Network Thematic Group on Strengthening the position of farmers in the Organic Food Supply Chain and identifies ways in which the role of the organic producer in the organic value chain can be strengthened through cooperation. This non-exhaustive working document, which expresses the views of the TG members, aims to support policy-makers and all stakeholders involved in designing organic policies.

This case study complements the information provided in the EU CAP Network Thematic Group on Strengthening the position of farmers in the Organic Food Supply Chain and highlights key aspects of organic policies in Luxembourg as examples to be used in other countries in Europe. This non-exhaustive working document, which expresses the views of the TG members, aims to support policy-makers and all stakeholders involved in designing organic policies.

This case study complements the information provided in the EU CAP Network Thematic Group on Strengthening the position of farmers in the Organic Food Supply Chain and highlights key aspects of organic policies in Denmark as examples to be used in other countries in Europe. This non-exhaustive working document, which expresses the views of the TG members, aims to support policy-makers and all stakeholders involved in designing organic policies.

The EU’s LEADER methodology is world famous for leaving no one behind in a variety of rural policy fields. LEADER’s flexibility continues to make it an ideal tool for helping Local Action Groups (LAGs) deliver valuable local contributions to high-level objectives of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) in the coming years.

Horizon Europe, the EU’s key funding programme for research and innovation, includes regular calls to set up EU-wide advisory networks. COREnet was the first such network, launched in 2022. Over the next two years, there are five more of these advisory network calls on different topics. Applying to this type of call can be challenging, but there are many useful support tools and information sources available. Patrick Pasgang from the Innovation Support Center of Boerenbond Belgium (Innovatiesteunpunt), one of the partners of COREnet shared his experience and a few useful tips.

This report summarises the main outcomes of the Good Practice Workshop on ‘How to assess direct payment interventions in the new CAP’, which was organised by the European Evaluation Helpdesk for the CAP on 9-10 November in Athens, Greece.

The Common Network Statistics (CNS) provides an insight into the quantitative outputs of NRNs in Y7 + 1 (2021 data), highlighting the development achieved by the NRNs.

This executive summary overviews the key findings of two Network Mapping activities conducted by the CAP Implementation Contact Point in 2022.