What is it about?
LEADER is the main programme providing support to local development initiatives since 1991 within rural regions across EU countries. Although it enables highly innovative activities, the integration into the "mainstream" Rural Development Programmes led to administrative changes and challenges for locla actors. The paper draws from the EU-FP7 project RuDI and compares implementation and arising problems in several countries.
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Why is it important?
The paper does not only recognize the success story of LEADER, but points to the preconditions and, sometimes not respected, requirements for positive regional effects. It is important that valuation of local development action and its processes, as they are enhanced by LEADER, are elaborated at the EU level, and joint findings are drawn from comparative studies.
Perspectives
More and more it gets important to see LEADER's contribution in its spatial and scoial relationships. This can only be achieved in a discourse of internal and external experts and an exchange of diverse views about LEADER's actual impact.
Mr Thomas Dax
Bundesanstalt fuer Bergbauernfragen
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This page is a summary of: The Leader programme 2007–2013: Enabling or disabling social innovation and neo-endogenous development? Insights from Austria and Ireland, European Urban and Regional Studies, July 2013, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/0969776413490425.
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