Latest news

Smart Rural 27: outcomes and recommendations
The final report of the Smart Rural 27 project clearly underlines the importance of LEADER as the main tool to implement Smart Villages in many Member States.
- CAP Implementation

ARIA 2024 prize winners showcase LEADER’s inspirational value
LEADER co-financed ten out of the 24 finalists of ARIA 2024 across all the award categories, including some of the winners, thus showing its potential to support a wide range of CAP objectives.
- CAP Implementation

Demonstrating LEADER’s added value: new assessment tool in Luxembourg
A new simple tool co-designed by the Managing Authority and Local Action Groups in Luxembourg demonstrates the added value LEADER can produce.
- CAP Implementation
- Evaluation
Latest publications

LEADER TNC - a practical guide
The EU CAP Network has created a practical guide that aims to provide advice, tips for planning and step-by-step implementation of LEADER TNC projects under the CAP Strategic Plans (CSP) 2023-2027.
- CAP Implementation

Thematic Evaluation on LEADER
This thematic evaluation aims to assess the effectiveness, efficiency, and relevance of the LEADER approach with the aim to promote economic, social, and environmental development in rural areas in Malta.
- Evaluation

EU CAP Network Magazine - Issue 3
The third edition of the EU CAP Network magazine highlights the economic, social and environmental dimensions of climate adaptation, along with sustainable ways of empowering farmers, foresters and rural communities to become more climate-resilient.
- CAP Implementation
- Innovation, knowledge exchange & EIP-AGRI
- Evaluation
Latest good practice

Better social services for children and the elderly from Romania's Revărsarea community-led development project
- CAP Implementation

LEADER focuses on reimagining rural areas and rejuvenating small-town centres in France
- CAP Implementation

Danish peninsula pilgrimage path improved by new visitor facilities
- CAP Implementation