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LEADER support for rural skills
Rural skills play fundamental roles in sustaining communities. LEADER Local Action Groups (LAGs) recognise the value of investing in skills. There are many good practice examples around the Member States.
LEADER supports Lithuanian heritage and social inclusion
LEADER offers many opportunities to add value in rural areas, including by developing heritage assets to promote tourism and create employment while preserving culture identity, as has been the case in Lithuania.
RDP implementation data for 2021 is now online
Summaries of monitoring data from the 2014-2020 Rural Development Programme (RDP) period are now available on our website. These present a range of insights on RDP achievements, including data from up until 2021.
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Workshop report: Young entrepreneurs - Engines of innovation in rural areas
On 30 November and 1 December 2022, the Directorate-General for Agriculture and Rural Development of the European Commission (DG AGRI) and the Support Facility for Innovation and Knowledge exchange including EIP-AGRI held the one-and-a-half-day EU CAP Network workshop ‘Young entrepreneurs – Engines of innovation in rural areas’.
Highlights Report: 1st meeting of the Thematic Group on Rural Youth Employment: The Voice of Rural Youth
The first meeting enabled TG members to share personal experience and exchange on challenges and opportunities related to rural youth employment – in view of pursuing the TG’s overall objective to explore various approaches to developing sustainable and high-quality rural jobs accessible to young people, and thereby inform relevant policies.
