The Nordic-Baltic Leader Cooperation Award

The Awards Gala Event will be held in Tallinn on 26th September 2013 where the five awards for Leader transnational cooperation projects will be presented.

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.
The aim of the competition is to:

  • highlight the importance of transnational cooperation for rural development in the Nordic-Baltic countries;
  • recognise and promote existing Leader transnational cooperation "success stories" involving the Nordic-Baltic countries;raise awareness amongst a wider audience of the interesting and diverse themes and activities which could be developed for future transnational cooperation with and between the Nordic-Baltic countries;
  • acknowledge the Local Action Groups which are currently active in the Nordic-Baltic countries, and inspire these and other Local Action Groups to continue with transnational cooperation during the new programming period (2014-2020);
  • reinforce the role of Leader in supporting implementation of the EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region.
 
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