Axis 4: LEADER Approach

Axis 4: Utilise the bottom-up structures of the Leader methodology to create awareness, understanding and motivation in rural communities so as to enable their full participation and input into the preparation of local development strategies

Minister Carey determined that ‘every last cent’ of €425m Leader Programme is spent

July 18, 2010

The Minister of Community, Equality and Gaeltacht Affairs, Pat Carey TD, held a special meeting last Thursday, the 15th of July, with groups from all over Ireland to discuss the operation and potential of the Rural Development Programme. Minister Carey convened the meeting in the Tipperary Institute in Thurles to discuss the best way of [...]

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Minister Pat Carey gives green light to €40m funding for Rural Development

June 17, 2010
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The Minister for Community, Equality and Gaeltacht Affairs, Mr Pat Carey, has announced that he is making available an initial allocation for 2011 of €40m under the Rural Development Programme 2007-2013.

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West Cork LEADER helps motivate unemployed

May 11, 2010
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Unemployment figures in the West Cork town of Macroom have risen by a dramatic 140-180 per cent in the last eighteen months. This fact spurred West Cork Development Partnership into holding a series of motivational workshops for job seekers and would-be entrepreneurs, inviting internationally-renowned motivational speaker Kevin Kelly to address the workshop in Macroom and [...]

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LEADER Cooperation Projects (April 2010)

May 6, 2010
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Please find attached the transnational cooperation partners search offers list from LEADER Local Action Groups, complemented with the offers we have received since the last update. You will find the new offers highlighted with green in the table of content.

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LEADER Cooperation Projects (March 2010)

March 30, 2010
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Please find attached the transnational cooperation partners search offers list from LEADER Local Action Groups, complemented with the offers we have received since the last update. You will find the new offers highlighted with green in the table of content.

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LEADER partner search

March 15, 2010
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Longford Community Resources Limited are seeking partners for a project “to re-skill/up skill workers from a rural/small farmer/ex-construction worker context to meet future challenges and opportunities (including self employment) as Ireland faces a carbon neutral economy”.

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European LEADER Expo II

February 12, 2010

The Organizing Committee of the Hungarian LEADER Alliance, ELARD and the Hungarian Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development will be hosting in Budapest between the 4th and 7th of March the II. European LEADER Expo.

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LEADER transnational cooperation project: Rural Youth

February 12, 2010
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A Finnish Local Action Group are seeking a project cooperation partner for a project entitled “Active and Creative Rural Youth”.

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Northern Irish LAG seeks project partner

February 9, 2010

A Northern Irish Local Action Group (LAG), North East Region LAG, are seeking co-operation partners. The topics of interest are food & cultural tourism, enhancing environmental capacity and farming & access to land.

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LINC 2010

February 9, 2010
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LINC is a new initiative from Local Action Groups and National Network Units for rural development in Austria, Germany, Estonia and Finland which combines European exchange of experience with sport events and European culinary delicacies.

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