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:	(45) 2013-05-20
Nomination country:	Poland
Title:	Re-creation of the Landscape / TEAM
Nominees:	Finalist
Category:	Tourism
Countries:	Poland, Belgium
Leading partner:	Belgium - Leader Tielt-Plateau
Documents:	http://maainfo.ee/public/files/45%20APPLICATION%20TEAM.docx
Photos link:	http://maainfo.ee/index.php?b=377&page=3538&action=pic_list&
Summary:	Project TEAM consisting of cooperation with the LAG in Belgium, is the bilateral identification and transfer of good practices. From the Belgian apply to practices of landscaping and landscape management in the rural areas, from the Polish explore the possibility of transferring innovations used in the Belgian tourism to Polish rural areas, and the use of new, unknown in Poland inter-sectoral collaboration methods. The apply the exchange of experience that took place in the first stage of the project (2010-2012), Bialskopodlaska LAG implement innovative marking bike routes longer than 1000 km based on accomplishments of partners and create innovative form of three-sector collaboration: “House of the Region”. Partners during the project involved various groups of stakeholders: youth, persons managing the region, members of non-governmental organizations and business in such a way to maintain the sustainability and the development of the project in the future.

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