Nordic-Baltic National Rural Networks

The Nordic-Baltic National Rural Networks (NRN) are NRNs from Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland and Germany.

It is an active cluster which meets regularly, plans its own joint activities and is plays an increasingly active role in relation to the rural development.

The National Rural Networks were established in each EU Member State in the programming period 2007-2013. NRNs provide an important link at the Member State level between the national administrations and organisations involved in rural development.

Their main role is to support the implementation and evaluation of rural development policy, help to bring together a variety of rural stakeholders and ensure communication both at regional, national and European level. Also, the main task is to organise events and produce a variety of communication tools, such as guides and event calendars, and have an important role in identifying and disseminating good practice.

Neighbours do communicate with each other more and therefore the neighbouring NRNs in Nordic-Baltic region should communicate with each other tightly. At the beginning, acquaintance was made with the different structures of the NRNs, RDP implementation; common and different regulations governing the LEADER measure, because each Member State has a lot of similarities, as well as differences.

The focus has always been on the establishment and development of LEADER LAGs. New topics, such as the role of NRNs in engaging the target groups of Axis 1 and 2 or LEADER transnational cooperation possibilities for new Member States have always been focused on. Several meetings focused on the EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region (EUSBSR).

Several mutual study tours were agreed upon at the meetings, invitations for events have been shared, ideas exchanged and partners or foreign lectors for their stakeholders have been searched for. Estonia and Finland have also organised joint study tours. An important theme has been the Baltic Sea Strategy and the implementation of its priorities, as well as many other rural development issues. Fisheries networks have also been included in many meetings. The hosting country of each meeting has also organised a study tour introducing its area with the RDP support for projects.

ENRD website about NRN clusters: enrd.ec.europa.eu/networks-and-networking/nrn-clusters/en/nordic-baltic-rural-networks_en.cfm

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The Nordic-Baltic Network meetings:

	Place	Dates	Participants
1.	Seinäjoki, Finland	19 – 20 February 2008	Danish, Estonian, Finnish and Swedish networks
2.	Jäneda, Estonia	24 – 26 September 2008	Danish, Estonian, Finnish, Latvian, Lithuanian and Swedish networks
3.	Åhus, Sweden	12 – 14 May 2009	Danish, Estonian, Finnish, Latvian, Lithuanian, Polish and Swedish networks
4.	Billund, Denmark	3 - 5 November 2009	Danish, Estonian, Finnish, German, Latvian, Lithuanian, Polish and Swedish networks
5.	Apšuciems, Latvia	28–30 April, 2010	Danish, Estonian, Finnish, Latvian, Lithuanian, Polish and Swedish networks
6.	Haikko, Finland	23 – 25 May 2011	Danish, Estonian, Finnish, Latvian, Lithuanian, Polish and Swedish networks
7.	Tallinn, Estonia	13 – 14 September 2011	Danish, Estonian, Finnish, Latvian, Lithuanian, Polish and Swedish networks. Joint event with the fisheries networks.
8.	Vilnius, Lithuania	13 – 14 March 2012	Danish, Estonian, Finnish, Latvian, Lithuanian, Polish and Swedish networks. Joint event with the fisheries networks.
9.	Brålanda, Sweden	3 – 4 October 2012	Danish, Estonian, Finnish, Latvian, Lithuanian, Polish and Swedish networks.
10.	Roskilde, Denmark	5 – 6 June 2013	Danish, Estonian, Finnish, Latvian, Lithuanian and Swedish networks
11.	Jurmala, Latvia	24. October 2013	Estonian, Finnish, Latvian,  and Swedish networks

 

Date of nomination:	(13) 2013-05-15
Nomination country:	Finland
Title:	Finnish Sauna – Learning By Doing
Nominees:	Participant
Category:	Culture
Countries:	Finland, Hungary
Leading partner:	Finland
Documents:	http://maainfo.ee/public/files/13%20APPLICATION%20FINNISH%20SAUNA%20%96%20LEARNING%20BY%20DOING.doc
Photos link:	http://maainfo.ee/index.php?b=356&page=3538&action=pic_list&
Summary:	This project is a village development project between villages Kangas (Finland) and Boda (Hungary). Boda has also partners in Transylvania (Romania): small town Csikrakos and in Austria: small town Ottnang. In this project was build a wooden sauna cabin with traditional log building methods. Building of sauna was made in a course in Kangas (Finland), where participants from Finland, Hungary and Transylvania (Romania) learned a lot of Finnish building techniques and culture. During the course the sauna was build up and then put to pieces (logs), which were transferred to village Boda (Hungary). There it was build up again. The people in Boda made the foundation, participants of course put logs in ‘right places’, the Transylvanian people made decoration outside and Austrian people made decoration inside.

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