LINC: Study Tours 1-9
Time: 11.09.2019
Place: Pärnu, Lääne and Viljandi counties, Estonia
LEADER international conference LINC will be held for 10th time already and this time in Estonia.
LINC 2019 event is organised by LAG Pärnu Bay Partnership, LAG Kodukant Läänemaa, LAG Mulgimaa Development Centre, LAG Green Riverland Partnership, Estonian LEADER Union and Estonian Rural Network Unit.
LINC Study Tours
LINC study tours will bring participants to Pärnu, Läänemaa and Viljandi counties. Study tours are organised by LAG Pärnu Bay Partnership, LAG Kodukant Läänemaa, LAG Mulgimaa Development Centre, LAG Green Riverland Partnership. Seminars during the TOURS are coordinated by Estonian Rural Network.
Study Tours Website in EE
11th Septemeber
WEDNESDAY
II DAY
Study-tours
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8.00 - 9.00 |
Buses depart at hotels for study tours 1-9 |
Study tour 1 |
Local food and enterprises in Mulgimaa - ENG 
- Study tour organised by LAG Mulgimaa Development Centre
- Seminar "Local food and rural tourism" – led by Ms Raili Mengel, NGO Eesti Rura Tourism
- Presentation "Examples of Estonian Rural tourism – Livonian culinary route – cooperation with Baltic countries" – Ms Raili Mengel
- Presentation combined with local food tasting "Local food for slow rural tourism in Transylvania, Romania" – Ms Alina Baba, LAG manager of Napoca Porolossium, Romania

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Study tour 2
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Cultural heritage in Mulgimaa - ENG 
- Study tour organised by LAG Mulgimaa Development Centre
- Seminar "Possibilities of culture tourism for rural areas" – led by Mr Juha-Matti Markkola, Finnish Rural Network
- "What is culture tourism?" Mr Juha-Matti Markkola, Finnish Rural Network
- "Estonian RDP support for rural tourism" – Ms Kai Kalmann, Estonian Ministry of Rural Affairs
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Study tour 3
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Living close to nature - history, hikes and horses - ENG 
- Study tour organised by LAG Kodukant Läänemaa
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Study tour 4
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Follow your passions - hemp, theatre, glass and archery - ENG 
- Study tour organised by LAG Kodukant Läänemaa
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Study tour 5 |
How to thrive in small villages?! - ENG 
- Study tour organised by LAG Pärnu Bay Partnership
- Seminar "Rural tourism and farms" – led by Ms Triin Kallas, Estonian LEADER Union
- "Estonian Open Farms Day" – Ms Kertu Kärk, Estonian Ministry of Rural Affairs
- "Farms and Rural Tourism in Austria" – Mr Luis Fidlschuster, Austrian Rural Network

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Study tour 6 |
Active entrepreneurs in Soomaa - ENG 
- Study tour organised by LAG Green Riverland Partnership
- Seminar "Links between rural entrepreneurship and rural tourism" led by Mr Konstantin Mihhejev, Estonian rural network
- "LEADER, rural tourism and entrepreneurship projects" – Mr Taavi Kurvits, Estonian Ministry of Rural Affairs
- "Entrepreneurship projects of LAG Green Riverland Partnership" – Ms Annika Parm
- "LEADER supported sport tourism project in Latvia" – Ms Ieva Vītola Deusa, LAG Partnership for Rural and the Sea

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Study tour 7 |
Resounding silence in Soomaa - ENG 
- Study tour organised by LAG Green Riverland Partnership
- Seminar "Nature and rural tourism" led by Ms Anneli Kana, Estonian Rural Tourism
- "Rent the smallest village in Luxembourg" in a concept of slow tourism in the wild west of Luxembourg Fons Jacques, LAG Atert-Wark
Handbook GER 
- "Project examples about nature tourism" - Ms Aino Viinapuu, LAG Roheline Jõemaa and Ms Anneli Kana, NGO Eestonian Rural Tourism
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Study tour 8
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The nature and people of Tõstamaa - ENG 
- Study tour organised by LAG Pärnu Bay Partnership
- Seminar "Rural tourism and village development" led by Ms Vivia Aunapuu-Lents, Estonian geographical expert of European Network for Rural Development and Ms Liina Käär
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