LOCAL AREA DEVELOPMENT

The LEADER Transnational Cooperation Awards collected 60 applications from participating countries.

The first selection of the nominated Nordic-Baltic Leader transnational cooperation projects is now done!

The finalists of the five categories were chosen out of 60 nominees in Roskilde, Denmark on the 6th June 2013. The evaluation committee included the representatives of Estonia, Lithuanian, Latvia, Swedish, Finnish and Danish rural networks.

LOCAL AREA DEVELOPMENT - A la Region - Upper Tampere & Hunsruck and Rhein Valley
		à la région- Upper Tampere & Hunsrück and Rhein valley is a cooperation project between 3 LAGs in Finland and Germany. The operators in the three LAGs have found several contacts and brought active people from different fields together and helped them to design and launch joint projects between the actors in Germany and Finland. After first contacts in 2009 through a finnish tourism project the three local action groups decided to start a co-operation and within that implement different co-operation projects between different groups within a variety fields.More info HERE
Leading partner: LAG Hunsrück (Germany)		Partners: LAG PoKo ry.(Finland), LAG Welterbe Oberes Mittelrheintal (Germany)
LOCAL AREA DEVELOPMENT - Cross-border Entrepreneurs Blekinge / Warmia-Mazury
		The transnational project aimed at business development through establishing business contacts between Polish and Swedish rural firms. Business contacts consist in reciprocal visits and study tours, organizing and participating at fairs in both countries that enable testing products and services. The testing groups from both countries visit each other for inspiration and business development, combining taking part in local fairs with testing local food and tourist offers like fishing. Evaluation of joint events is an im portant part of the project. The firms receive feedback needed to meet the expectations from potential business partners and visitors from the other country. More info HERE
Leading partner: LAG Leader Blekinge (Sweden)		Partners: Brama Mazurskiej Krain (Poland), Warmiński Zakątek (Poland)
LOCAL AREA DEVELOPMENT - Loving Local Values
		The project like its name „Loving local values“ focused on valuing local products and food in the district of Development Centre (LAG Arenduskoda) and Kymenlaakso county in Finland, where it involved the municipalities - Kouvola, Hamina, Kotka, Miehikkälä, Pyhtöö, Lovisa, Virolahti and Iti. Related to the goals and activities the focus of the project was to enhance cooperation between people who are active in the field of local food, rural tourism and handicraft to help them design their products and services, add extra value and arrange better marketing. The main focus was on food products! We have mapped the food producers in both regions (in Estonia and Finland), started common discussions between them and planned follow-up projects. The other important focus of the project was rising awareness about local and healthy food. Local food consuming is directly connected with the awareness of consumers. Through the open food days in regions everybody could participate for example in food cooking contests an also in the topic-related seminars. More info HERE
Leading partner: LAG Arenduskoda (Estonia)		Partners: LAG Development Association Sepra (Finland), LAG Pohjois-Kymen Kasvu (Finland), NGO ProAgria Etelä-Suomi Ry/Maa- ja kotitalousnaiset (Finland)
LOCAL AREA DEVELOPMENT - Villages full of Treasures
		The Villages Full of Treasures is an international project, which main objective is to promote cultural knowledge and develop tourism of villages. The project will inspire especially young people to try traditional skills. During the project partners will arrange different festivals on their area. Other partners have opportunity to take part to the festivals and send artisans to keep workshops of their home countries traditional crafts and food culture. Project will develop local tourism in our areas with different issues, geocaching, treasure hunting and all kind of activities. Every LAG´s do cooperation and learn from each other’s. More info HERE
Leading partner: LAG Karhuseutu (Finland)		Partners: LAG Kaunas District (Lithuania), LAG Zálabí, místní akční skupina (Czech Republic), LAG Říčansko (Czech Republic), LAG Krajina srdce(Czech Republic), LAG Podlipansko (Czech Republic),

 

 

Date of nomination:	(15) 2013-05-15
Nomination country:	Estonia
Title:	Handicraft
Nominees:	Winner of People's Choice
Category:	Culture
Countries:	Finland, Estonia, Latvia
Leading partner:	Finland - LAG Karhuseutu
Documents:	http://www.maainfo.ee/public/files/15%20APPLICATION%20Handicraft.doc
Photos link:	http://maainfo.ee/index.php?b=358&page=3538&action=pic_list&
Summary:	The general objective of the project was to develop a network of partners and entrepreneurs of handicraft makers; to change know-how of handicraft culture between regions; to change know-how of ideas, making and selling handicrafts; to spread handicraft culture to public. The project aims at giving the local handicraft makers possibility to find contacts that will last long after the project is finished. Each project partner had its own project. The joint transnational actions in the Handicraft project were incorporated in each partner’s project plan. The main action in each project was to gather a group of local handicraft makers, who will also be main beneficiaries of the project. The activities of the project were executed mainly by the handicraft makers’ groups, who prepared their production for exhibitions and selling markets, participated in handicraft workshops and handicraft conference, created a fashion show of combined traditional and modern costumes.

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