The 2023 LEADER European Congress is the first event to bring together as many European LAGs as possible in more than 15 years. It is also the first organised by an institution outside the European Commission!
Join us on 18 and 19 December in Brussels to discuss the future of LEADER in European policies and fill the Parliament’s hemicycle with more than 800 participants from rural Europe. This Congress will bring together more than 600 LAG members from all over Europe, officials from the European Commission, MEPs involved in LEADER and rural development, as well as representatives of national and regional rural networks and managing authorities.
In the context of the post-2027 review of European policies, the place of rural development is sometimes discussed. This is why ELARD was keen to bring together this year the representatives of the LEADER programme and CLLD in Europe to take stock of rural development in Europe, to give a place and a voice to rural areas in the hemicycle of the European Parliament and to highlight the challenges related to rural areas in the context of a pre-election year.
The European Commission’s Directorate-General for Agriculture and Rural Development has published a special report on the European Rural Development LEADER Program, entitled “Evaluation support study of the costs and benefits of the implementation of LEADER”, Read more…
At the occasion of the start of the French Presidency of our network, we interviewed Thibaut Guignard, President of LEADER France and mayor of Ploeuc-L’Hermitage (Brittany, 4 103 inhabitants), freshly elected president. You’ve taken the presidency Read more…
What needs changing? Rural areas encounter a number of difficulties that were put aside for a long time, such as: a shutdown of public services, lagging behind in terms of economic development, a lesser access Read more…
