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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.

TOURISM - CULTRIPS. Creating a New Concept for Socio-cultural Village Trips in Europe
		The project of interpersonal exchange through cultural trips in Europe is based on a new concept of socio-cultural exchange and tourism in rural areas. CULTrips activity is based on local level action for developing socio-cultural tourism. Local actors will explore their own communities, present interesting elements of their communities and its activities and receive guests from partner regions. During the project the new concept of socio-cultural tourism was developed via six pilot trips and other activities. Three or four days regional and thematic programs for intra-European cultural trips were elaborated by local groups and evaluated by visiting foreign test persons. As a result the manual for developing socio-cultural travelling was elaborated. Some products are shaped for marketing phase with tourist agencies active in sustainable tourism. More info HERE
Leading partner: LAG Redange-Wiltz (Luxembourg)		Partners: Urfahr-West LAG (Austria) Oststeirisches Kernland LAG (Austria), Raplamaa Partnership LAG (Estonia), Joensuu Region LAG (Finland), Central Karelian Jetina LAG (Finland), Valle Umbra e Sibillini LAG (Italy)
TOURISM - Mustaparta Archipelago and Tornio Valley
		The ’Mustaparta archipelago and Tornio valley’ is an international business development project. It´s roots extend back to the 18th century, when Finland and Sweden was the same country as well Tornio and Haparanda the same town and Tornio Valley a hole province. Now we have the border between us. Our common, historical hero was Iisakki Mustaparta (Isac Blackbeard) is a good premise to do cultureproducts for tourism. A few prominent entrepreneurs have spotted the potential for good products, and the related marketing and profitable sales, in the spirit of Mustaparta. More info HERE
Leading partner: LAG Outokaira tuottamhan (Finland)		Partners: LAG Mare Boreale (Sweden), Laplands university in Finland (Finland)
TOURISM - Nature Tourism Project
		Partner areas all have rurality as a core issue and seek to overcome economic fragility through the promotion of the natural and cultural tourism assets in their areas via responsible tourism. Partner areas are able to learn from the experiences and lessons of the other regions some of whom already have experience to share. Each area hosts a nature/cultural tourism conference. Representatives from tourism businesses in their area attend. Learning about best practice in tourism, networking with other tourism businesses and experience local tourism. Delegates make suggestions to develop products based on the knowledge they bring from the partner area. More info HERE
Leading partner: LAG Karhuseutu (Finland)		Partners: LAG Abaúj Leader Egyesület (Hungary), LAG Outer Hebrides LEADER (Scotland); Outer Hebrides Tourism Industry Association (Scotland), LAG Pays Boulonnais (France), LAG Coast, Wolds, Wetlands & Waterways (England); Yorkshire Wildlife Trust (England), LAG Adirn (Portugal), Ami Ribeirão (Cap Verde), Tourism entrepreneurs of Kokemäenjokilaakso (Finland) etc.
TOURISM - Re-creation of the Landscape / TEAM
		Project TEAM (Tourism - Ecology – Activity – Management). Project TEAM consisting of cooperation with the LAG in Belgium, is the bilateral identification and transfer of good practices. From the Belgian apply to practices of landscaping and landscape management in the rural areas, from the Polish explore the possibility of transferring innovations used in the Belgian tourism to Polish rural areas, and the use of new, unknown in Poland intersectoral collaboration methods. The apply the exchange of experience that took place in the first stage of the project (2010-2012), Bialskopodlaska LAG implement innovative marking bike routes longer than 1000 km based on accomplishments of partners and create innovative form of three-sector collaboration: “House of the Region”. Partners during the project involved various groups of stakeholders: youth, persons managing the region, members of non-governmental organizations and business in such a way to maintain the sustainability and the development of the project in the future. More info HERE
Leading partner: Leader Tielt-Plateau (Belgium)		Partners: Bialskopodlaska Local Action Group (Poland), Leader Westhoek (Belgium)

Database of The Nordic-Baltic Leader Cooperation Award

Date of nomination	Title	Nominees	Category	Countries	Leading partner

(01) 2013-04-23	The many faces of wood – Insights into folk art and everyday creativity	Participant	Culture	Finland, Estonia, Lithuania, Poland, Italy	Finland - LAG Karelian Hills Leader Association
(02) 2013-05-08	Transnational Hunting	Participant	Local Recourses and Environment	Sweden, Estonia	Estonia - LAG Peipsi-Alutagusi Koostöökoda
(03) 2013-05-08	RUCOP – Supporting rural sustainability through Co-operation	Participant	Local Recourses and Environment	Scotland, Sweden	Scotland
(04) 2013-05-08	CULTrips. Creating a new concept for socio-cultural village trips in Europe	Finalist	Tourism	Luxembourg, Austria, Finland, Italy, Estonia	Luxembourg - LAG Redange-Wiltz
(05) 2013-05-08	Nature Tourism Project	Winner of Category	Tourism	Finland, Hungary, Scotland, England, France, Portugal, Cap Verde	Finland - LAG Karhuseutu
(06) 2013-05-14	A la Region - Upper Tampere & Hunsruck and Rhein Valley	Finalist	Local Area Development	Germany, Finland	Germany - LAG Hunsrück
(07) 2013-05-14	Use of Local Resources for Energy and Construction Purposes	Participant	Local Recourses and Environment	Finland, Estonia, Germany	Finland
(08) 2013-05-14	Ung Folkmusikbro/ Folk Summer School 2010	Participant	Youth	Finland, Sweden	Finland
(09) 2013-05-15	Bandcamp	Participant	Youth	Finland, Sweden	Finland
(10) 2013-05-15	Slöjdkontakt och hantverksmöten (Handicrafts contacts and meetings)	Participant	Culture	Finland, Sweden	Finland
(11) 2013-05-15	Konst-och kultursommar Österbotten (Art and culturesummer Ostrobothnia)	Participant	Tourism	Sweden, Finland, Germany	Sweden
(12) 2013-05-15	Leva i två världar (Living in two worlds)	Participant	Culture	Finland, Sweden	Finland
(13) 2013-05-15	Finnish Sauna – Learning By Doing	Participant	Culture	Finland, Hungary	Finland
(14) 2013-05-15	My Fell Lapland	Finalist	Youth	Italy, Finland, France	Italy - GAL Sulcis Iglesiente Capoterra e Campidano di Cagliari
(15) 2013-05-15	Handicraft	Winner of People's Choice	Culture	Finland, Estonia, Latvia	Finland - LAG Karhuseutu
(16) 2013-05-16	Finest Rural youth camps	Participant	Youth	Estonia, Finland, Russia	Estonia
(17) 2013-05-16	Cultrural - international culture tourism project	Participant	Tourism	Finland, Lithuania	Finland
(18) 2013-05-16	Youth for Youth	Special Price of ESTONIA	Youth	Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia	Lithuania - Ukmerge region LAG
(19) 2013-05-16	Medieval Festivals	Winner of Category	Culture	Estonia, Finland, Latvia, France, Portugal	Estonia - LAG Pärnu Bay Partnership
(20) 2013-05-16	Rising YOUTH BANDS	Participant	Culture	Finland, Scotland, Italy	Finland
(21) 2013-05-16	Mus jungia LEADER lanczy nas (LEADER unites)	Participant	Youth	Poland, Lithuania	Poland
(22) 2013-05-16	Villages Full of Treasures	Finalist	Local Area Development	Finland, Lithuania, Czech Republic	Finland - LAG Karhuseutu
(23) 2013-05-17	European Oral Singing Traditions – Leader project	Participant	Culture	Finland, France, Estonia, United Kingdom	Finland
(24) 2014-05-17	Loving Local values	Finalist	Local Area Development	Estonia, Finland	Estonia - LAG Arenduskoda
(25) 2013-05-17	Villages on Move	Participant	Youth	Finland, Estonia	Finland
(26) 2013-05-17	Connecting countryside cultures – forming Finnish-French fellowship	Participant	Culture	France, Finland	France
(27) 2013-05-17	Our Earth Hour	Participant	Youth	Finland, France	France
(28) 2013-05-17	Clower power! 4H twinning people	Participant	Youth	Finland, Estonia	Finland
(29) 2013-05-17	Ecomuseum - from memories to future	Finalist	Culture	Italy, Finland	Italy - LAG Piceno
(30) 2013-05-17	Rural youth – Active, Creative and Humane Youth ACHY	Participant	Youth	Finland, Spain	Finland
(31) 2012-05-17	The Traditional Craft Skills Project	Participant	Culture	Finland, Ireland	Finland
(32) 2013-05-17	Polish and Swedish Trail of Local Product	Participant	Culture	Poland, Sweden	Poland
(33) 2013-05-17	Action and Interaction	Participant	Youth	Finland, Lithuania	Finland
(34) 2013-05-17	Cross-border Entrepreneurs Blekinge/ Warmia-Mazury	Winner of Category	Local Area Development	Sweden, Poland	Sweden - Leader Blekinge
(35) 2013-05-17	Forest Project – Network of densely-wooded region in Europe	Participant	Local Area Development	Finland, Sweden, Luxembourg, France	Finland
(36) 2013-05-17	International Youth Project – Learning by doing	Participant	Youth	Finland, Poland, Russia	Finland
(37) 2013-05-17	Development Of Local Identity Product By Using Innovative Marketing In Rural Tourism	Participant	Tourism	Lithuania, Latvia	Lithuania
(38) 2013-05-17	Innovative Village	Participant	Local Area Development	Finland, Estonia, UK	Finland
(39) 2012-05-17	Mustaparta archipelago and Tornio Valley	Finalist	Tourism	Finland, Sweden	Finland - LAG Outokaira tuottamhan
(40) 2013-05-17	Traditions on the Market Square	Finalist	Culture	Finland, Italy	Finland - LAG Aktiivinen Pohjois-Satakunta
(41) 2013-05-17	Wind for Youth	Winner of Category	Youth	Finland, Austria	Finland - LAG Aktiivinen Pohjois-Satakunta
(42) 2013-05-17	Woven Together	Participant	Culture	Finland, Austria	Finland
(43) 2013-05-20	Giving young people the chance to preserve regional traditions	Participant	Youth	Poland, Lithuania	Poland
(44) 2013-05-20	Bees and Biodiversity – Together to stop pollinating insects decline and protect biodiversity	Finalist	Local Recourses and Environment	France, Slovakia, Germany, Belgium, Finland, United Kingdom - Wales, Denmark	France - LAG Pays Voironnais
(45) 2013-05-20	Re-creation of the Landscape / TEAM	Finalist	Tourism	Poland, Belgium	Belgium - Leader Tielt-Plateau
(46) 2012-05-20	IdeaCamp	Participant	Youth	Finland, Sweden	Finland
(47) 2013-05-20	International Theme Routes	Participant	Tourism	Finland, Estonia	Finland
(48) 2013-05-20	Forest Trail	Finalist	Local Recourses and Environment	Finland, Luxembourg, Sweden, France	Finland - LAG Aktiivinen Pohjois-Satakunta
(49) 2013-05-20	Villages Without Fences	Participant	Local Area Development	Czech Republic, Finland	Czech Republic
(50) 2013-05-20	The transnational local food project	Participant	Local Area Development	Finland, United Kingdom, Sweden	Finland
(51) 2013-05-20	FENIX	Participant	Youth	Finland, Sweden, Estonia	Finland
(52) 2013-05-20	The Planet said to me	Finalist	Youth	Finland, Luxembourg, Estonia, France	Luxembourg - LAG Redange-Wiltz
(53) 2013-05-20	Quaint Village	Participant	Youth	Finland, Lithuania	Finland
(54) 2013-05-20	Cooperation in Cultural Heritage Exploitation	Participant	Culture	Czech Republic, Estonia	Czech Republic
(55) 2013-05-20	Ecoland LEADER	Participant	Local Recourses and Environment	Finland, Estonia	Finland
(56) 2013-05-20	Growing Gastronauts	Winner of Category	Local Recourses and Environment	France, United Kingdom, Estonia	France - LAG Pays Vallée du Loir
(57) 2013-05-20	Old Crafts Today	Participant	Culture	Lithuania, Latvia	Latvia
(58) 2013-05-20	Traditional sailing and maritime heritage	Finalist	Local Recourses and Environment	Finland, Estonia, Denmark	Finland - LAG Karhuseutu
(59) 2013-05-20	Local food for local development	Participant	Local Recourses and Environment	Finland, Austria, Cypros, Ireland, Sweden	Finland
(60) 2013-05-20	Management fishing in the Lakes Finjasjön and Bosarpasjön. The transnational project: Developing methods of management fishery and utilization of haul	Finalist	Local Recourses and Environment	Finland, Sweden	Finland - LAG Etpähä

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