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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.

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People stand in front of a community café in the frame of the LEADER project Community Connections, by Louth Local Development, Ireland
14 Sep 2026

Bouncing forward: how Local Action Groups support social resilience

Local Action Groups can support rural resilience by rapidly and effectively activating local resources and fostering systemic cooperation. These real-life stories show the way.

  • CAP Implementation
LEADER stakeholders walk together in a field in Czechia in the frame of Local Action Groups' work
14 Sep 2026

Trust before crisis: how Czech LAGs build resilient communities

From COVID to floods, Czech Local Action Groups show that resilience starts long before emergencies happen. Trust, local knowledge and cooperation help communities respond, recover and adapt together.

  • CAP Implementation
Aerial panorama of peaceful small town in western germany with green farmland
23 Jul 2026

Europe’s budget – Building stronger, connected, resilient and prosperous rural communities

Under the proposed 2028–2034 budget, the European Commission is renewing its commitment to rural areas and communities.

  • CAP Implementation

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Effectiveness of LEADER in Upper Savonia, Finland, for the 2014-2020 RDP
Member State Evaluation |

Effectiveness of LEADER in Upper Savonia, Finland, for the 2014-2020 RDP

This evaluation assesses the results and impacts of the LEADER strategy in the Upper Savonia region of Finland during the 2014-2020 programming period, focusing on regional vitality and entrepreneurship

  • Evaluation
Evaluation of Outokaira LEADER activities, Finland, 2014-2022 RDP
Member State Evaluation |

Evaluation of Outokaira LEADER activities, Finland, 2014-2022 RDP

This evaluation examines the implementation and effects of the Meän Outokaira local development strategy in Finland’s Tornionjoki valley during the 2014-2022 Rural Development Programme (RDP), with a focus on LEADER-funded business, project and thematic support.

  • Evaluation
Report on the implementation of LEADER across 4 German federal states in RDP 2014-2022.
Member State Evaluation |

Report on the implementation of LEADER across 4 German federal states in RDP 2014-2022.

In this report, different steering approaches and their effects on LEADER implementation in the federal states of Hesse, Lower Saxony, North Rhine-Westphalia and Schleswig-Holstein are compared with the aim of identifying the effects, advantages and disadvantages of the different variants.

  • Evaluation

Latest good practice

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Project | 09 Jul 2026

Handicraft digi lab in Slovenia

  • CAP Implementation
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Project | 09 Jul 2026

Modernising beekeeping at the Medusmājag farm in Latvia

  • CAP Implementation
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Project | 08 Jul 2026

Aldeias Sem Fronteiras - Villages Without Borders

  • CAP Implementation