In the last funding periods there was steady increase in the number of LEADER-regions in Europe, and, at least in Germany, it is already evident that this gain will continue: for the 2014-2020 funding period there around 300 LAGs expected in comparison to 244 LAGs in the last period. For the new...

The challenges for the quality of life in rural areas in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, connected with structural economic and demographic changes, raise the question of how to find appropriate policy interventions in the specific situation of transitions countries. One approach to bring forward rural...

Support for balanced regional development with participatory approaches has a long tradition in EU funding programmes for rural development. LEADER started 25 years ago and now has 2600 Local Action Groups (LAGs). These LAGs collaborate as a kind of a public-private partnership on the basis of...

Auf der Grundlage langjähriger Evaluierungserfahrung werden die von der Europäischen Kommission (EU-KOM) im Juni 2018 vorgelegten Verordnungsentwürfe zur Gemeinsamen Agrarpolitik (GAP) nach 2020 in Bezug auf den Europäischen Landwirtschaftsfonds für die Entwicklung des ländlichen Raums...