LEADER
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LEADER

LEADER is the EU’s participatory and bottom-up approach to involve rural people in community led local development through local strategies, local projects, and decision-making processes.

Latest news

LINC 2025 - field visits in Austria (c) European Commission 2025
10 Sep 2025

LEADER Transnational Cooperation: highlights from LINC2025

Get a glimpse of the conversations held at the EU CAP Network’s LEADER Transnational Cooperation Corner during LINC2025.

  • CAP Implementation
A girl in traditional costume in the region of LAG Napoca Porolissum in Romania (c)LAG Napoca Porolissum
10 Sep 2025

New tools for LEADER networking

The EU CAP Network has launched a new series of tools to boost LEADER networking: the LAG Directory and the LEADER Cooperation Offers are now available to all LEADER enthusiasts - in all EU languages!

  • CAP Implementation
Plies of document
10 Sep 2025

Simplifying LEADER in practice at local level: the experience in Greece

New Simplified Cost Options (SCOs) for Local Action Groups are being introduced this year in Greece.

  • CAP Implementation

Latest publications

Expert insight leader
Evaluation Expert Insights |

CAP Evaluation Insights: LEADER

Four distinct LEADER evaluations from the 2014-2020 programming period offer helpful insights by assessing the foundational principles and role of the LEADER method in influencing local development.

  • Evaluation
Liguria Annual Evaluation Report 2024
Member State Evaluation |

2024 Liguria annual evaluation report

The report describes the evaluation activities carried out in 2023 and focuses on the methodological support activities for self-evaluation of the Local Development Strategies.

  • Evaluation
Evaluation of the LEADER measure within the framework of the basque country RDP
Member State Evaluation |

Evaluation of the LEADER measure within the framework of the Basque Country RDP

The main objective of this report is to assess the results achieved with the LEADER measure in order to determine whether the objectives set out in the operational programme have been achieved.

  • Evaluation

Latest good practice

A women gardening at the raised bed
Project | 09 Oct 2025

Cultivation Academy 2.0

  • CAP Implementation
project promoters Helena and Fabian under a fruit tree
Local brand promotion at Green Week in Berlin in 2022
Project | 09 Oct 2025

Local collective brand with national protection

  • CAP Implementation