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What are LAGs working on? Episode 2
We continue our series with a look at Local Development Strategies by two LAGs in Poland and Denmark, where LEADER is enabling Smart Villages, social capital and economic innovation.
- CAP Implementation
How do National Networks support LEADER?
Networking, capacity-building workshops and even speed dating: National Networks are not short of ideas when it comes to supporting LEADER!
- CAP Implementation
Making LEADER braver – Bolder action in Austrian rural development
In 2025, Austrian Local Action Groups have chosen ‘Making LEADER braver’ as an overarching ambition for their work. Discover what this means and how it is happening in practice.
- CAP Implementation
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From practice to progress: a shared agenda for CAP implementation
This briefing includes proposals formulated by CAP stakeholders to scale up successful approaches, remove barriers, and identify both quick wins for the current CAP period and longer-term actions relevant for the post-2027 framework.
- CAP Implementation
Simplified Cost Options: experience gained and new approaches
A very useful exchange of information, ideas, and practical experiences between representatives from the European Commission, LEADER LAGs, National Rural Networks, Managing Authorities, and Paying Agencies.
- CAP Implementation
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
Latest good practice
Our Footprint: More than 1 000 actions to benefit biodiversity
- CAP Implementation
Developing a community building to support cultural resilience
- CAP Implementation