Regione Autonoma Friuli Venezia Giulia - Workshop for sub projects - Udine 17th of October 2006

Region Friuli Venezia Giulia organised a seminar for subprojects' participants. During the meeting Euroleader presented LoProDen Sub project and in particular project partnership.

Partnership

Pannon Handcraft Cluster - West-Pannon Region, Hungary
It is the lead partner.The members of the cluster have experiences in social employment, in youth programs, rural and economic development programs, and also in cultural programs.They have experiences in building network, keeping contact with international partners and with producers.The members of the cluster, especially the management body, Hegypásztor Kör, have very much projects in Structural Founds and also in Interreg. The cluster won a project in the regional found Innoreg, which aims to support innovative initiatives in the regions. The title of the project is Local products in the West-Pannon Region. A national project to the Economic Development Operative Program will be handed in.The cluster would like to build an European network of local products, therefore he tried to find partners from each GRIP IT partner regions.

LAG Euroleader s.cons.r. l. Regione Friuli Venezia Giulia, Italy
The LAG Euroleader is composed by two areas: Carnia and Gemonese. The main aim of Euroleader is to promote a network among different stakeholders in these territories with the purpose of supporting economic, cultural and social development using a bottom up approach.The Local Development Plan aims to act:
-on culturalmodel in order to reinforce, in particular in the Young people, the sense of territorial membership;
-on management model to promote the local stakeholders networks;
-on productive model, because working for the enhancement of local resources could be also a good approach in order to achieve a positive impact on economic growth.
Euroleader, in this period, is involved in various cooperation projects:
-EconetEurope: a project about the environmental education with a Finnish partner and one Italian;
-Improve: a plan that aims to favor the connection between rural and young enterprises of the territory in order to improve the competences of the operating ones;
-Stra.S.S.E.: Euroleader is consultant manager in a project about the strategic planning of some territories of Greece, Czech Republic, Umbria and Friuli Venezia Giulia;
-TONE: an other GRIP IT project that regards Tourism Network in Historic Centres

MEDES - Observatory for economic problems associated with desertification in Mediterranean areas Regione Basilicata, Italy
The Observatory is a non-profit organization promoted by the University of Basilicata and the National Association of Mountain Territory, aiming to promote activity on sustainable development and management of Mediterranean areas highly exposed to desertification.
It was founded with aims that included promoting research on principles and methods for the practical implementation of the concept of "sustainableruraldevelopment":
-to develop training programmes that translate research results into practical instruments for sustainable land use planning and farm management;
-to make information from research available in a comprehensive and understandable manner to the planner and decision-maker;
-to give advice on the practical application of the principles of and tools for sustainable development.
The Observatory has a strong background in agricultural economics and policy, social sciences, and natural resources management.
These are some of the researches ended from Medes:
-DESERTLINKS Combating Desertification in Mediterranean Europe: Linking Science with Stakeholders;
- MEDALUS Mediterranean Desertification and Land Use;
- MEDIMONT.

These are the research activities on going:
SIXTH FRAMEWORK PROGRAMME - PRIORITY 1.1.6.3 GLOBAL CHANGE AND ECOSYSTEMS
-LUCINDA Type of instrument: SPECIFIC SUPPORT ACTION (SSA) Land Care in Desertification-Affected Areas: from Science Towards Application.
- DESIRE Type of instrument: IINTEGRATED PROJECT (IP).
EU COMMUNITY INITIATIVE PROGRAMME. INTERREG III B ARCHIMED.
- AXIS 3 - MISURE 3.1 - IMAGE: Sustainable use of water resources and rural development in drought affected areas.
- AXIS 1 - MISURE 1.2 - HADRIAMED: Harmonious Development of Rural and Insular Areas.

LAG Sdru¸ení SPLAV - Královéhradecky Kraj, Czech Republic
This is the LAG of Microregion Bělá and is involved in various projects that derive from LEADER initiative:
-LEADER ČR – “Together for People and Countryside”, 2005, 100 000 EUR;
-LEADER ČR – “We´ll live together”, 2006, 100 000 EUR
In partnership:
-LEADER ČR - “The Country-our Common Domesticity”, 2006, 100 000 EUR
-LEADER ČR – “The Evolution of The Eagle Mountains”, 2006, 100 000 EUR