The European Network for Rural Development has just published a list of all Local Action Group’s across Europe who are currently seeking partners and/or expressions of interests in relation to transnational cooperation projects. Below is a list of all project titles. In the attached document you will find further information on each of the project proposals, including contact details.

If you have any queries regarding any of the project proposals please feel free to either contact the relevant Local Action Group directly or any member of the RDSU Team (our contact details).

If any Irish Local Action Group is seeking partners or support in developing a transnational project please feel free to contact us.

Summary of Transnational Cooperation Project proposals (June 2009) [pdf]

Austria:

• European Saddler (Leather) Network
• Preservation of sweet chestnuts

Estonia:

• Economic diversification – women entrepreneurs in rural areas

Finland:

• Art Exhibition Exchange
• Connecting Culture
• New karate methods from foreign countries
• Path to Europe

France:

• Attractiveness of rural areas for youth
• Capitalise experiences of the development of truffle production
• Capitalise on experiences of the development of wood energy installations and diffuse the information throughout Europe
• Experimental site for ecoconstruction to experiment and to form on new techniques of construction, on construction site school
• Forestry
• How to encourage rural development activities that promote local natural ressources (wood, paper, cardboard)
• Maintenir, renforcer ou créer de l’activité rurale créatrice de richesses valorisant les ressources locales (bois papier carton)
• Innovation of local resources for economic development (volcanic areas)- English version
• Open farms network
• Organisation of local activity branches of quality and high added value
• Promotion and communication about scientific heritage linked to sea and health
• Valorisation of the territorial identity
• Water sustainable use
• Wood and agronomics resources transformation into energy
• Environmentals solutions about sustainable development, local food chain
• Developing/promoting local resources; tourism heritage and natural resources; agriculture, forest, renewable energy
• Maintenir, renforcer ou créer de l’activité rurale créatrice de richesses valorisant les ressources locales ; Tourisme/patrimoine; Ag ricu ltu re/forêt/énerg ie renouvelable

Germany

• Development of Geotourism
• Exchange network for archaeoastronimic exhibitions and events
• International expansion of the archaeoastronomic tourism route ‘Sky paths’

Hungary

• Along Birds’ Routes

Italy

• Culture, art and tradition
• European landscapes and environment
• The improvement of social and cultural dynamics in rural areas
• Youth in Europe – Innovative entrepreneurship

Netherlands

• Civil participation and small landscape elements
• Demographic shrinkage
• European championship Cherry Pit Spitting
• Limes Romana

Poland

• Extraagricultural enterprises in the LAGs area development
• LAG’s sicial capital developing
• Quality of life
• Tourism development

Spain

• Agroambiental actions in little islands
• Bird Routes
• DRAGON FLY. Creative dynamisation with youth
• Dynamisation of the rural world through the possibilities that present the aerodromes in out territories for their tourist use
• Ecologic Agriculture
• Equestrian tourism industry
• European network for fomenting the information society among rural women
• European network for the development of territories linked to great European rivers such as the Tagus
• European Network for the Transfer and the sustainable development of rural areas close to big cities
• Gender Equality
• Others in Spanish