Smart Villages
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Smart Villages

Smart Villages are communities in rural areas that use innovative solutions to improve their resilience, building on local strengths and opportunities.

Latest news

Rural businesswoman working in the countryside
18 Mar 2025

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
Houses in a rural village in the Netherlands
07 Feb 2025

Smart Rural 27 - Final report

The final report of the 2nd Preparatory Action on Smart Rural Areas in the 21st century, commonly called Smart Rural 27, the Executive summary and the leaflet are now available.

  • CAP Implementation
View of village with its fortress
18 Nov 2024

LEADER success stories across the CAP

LEADER can co-fund a variety of projects supporting many different CAP objectives and this article shows the scope of LEADER's rural development potential.

  • CAP Implementation

Latest publications

Leader Evaluation Support
Member State Evaluation |

LEADER evaluation report: support for LAGs to monitor evaluation progress and self-assessment activities

This report is intended to assist LAGs in implementing the self-assessment methodology developed as part of LEADER's first evaluation activity, which is reflected in 'Part II' of the analysis.

  • Evaluation
Report - Subgroup on LEADER and territorial development
Event Reports |

3rd meeting of the Subgroup on LEADER and territorial development

The meeting offered a rich and balanced mix of presentations and interactive discussions, reaffirming the role of LEADER for rural areas, presenting updates from Members States and identifying topics of relevance for future EU CAP Network activities.

  • CAP Implementation
Final Evaluation Report of the Rural Development Programme 2014-2020 Thematic Evaluation of the Rural Development Programme
Member State Evaluation |

Contribution of RDP Priority 6 measures on the promotion of social inclusion and poverty reduction

The evaluation analyses the contribution of Priority 6 of the Hungarian 2014-2020 Rural Development Programme (RDP) to promoting social inclusion and poverty reduction.

  • Evaluation

Latest good practice

Five different professional cleaning equipment machines
The project building with a wall sign in Latvian saying The Buckwheat Residence
National Smart Villages Programme Logo
Project | 25 Jun 2024

National Smart Villages Programme

  • CAP Implementation