After the accession of the ten new member states to the EU in 2004 and the following
membership of Bulgaria and Romania in 2007, the (neo) endogenous development method …

Governance has emerged as a very solid conceptual framework within which public policies
are designed and implemented, but with different added values. It constitutes a truly new …

Parts of European rural development policies are meant to empower local decision makers.
These policies are implemented in very different multilevel governance contexts in the …

The LEADER program is one of the European Union's financing instruments dedicated to
the development of the rural communities. The instrument was introduced in the Romanian …

The paper explores and compares the aims of the three most common legal forms of inter-
municipal cooperation in Poland (engaging rural, urban-rural and urban municipalities) …

Multifunctionality embedded in the neo-endogenous model of rural development and
manifested through the LEADER approach typifies a new rural development paradigm …

Die begleitende Evaluation der LEADER-Förderung im Rahmen der 5-Länder-Evaluierung
am Thünen-Institut hat bis dato eine Vielzahl von Erkenntnissen zu …

In the early 1990s, with the Leader Initiative, the European Commission intended to apply a
new development model in order to encourage the economic diversification of the rural …

Ever increasingly more, all the actors directly or indirectly involved in the planning processes
express the need to know the effects deriving from the implementation of rural development …

La metodología LEADER se ha convertido en el principal instrumento de enfoque territorial
para apoyar el desarrollo de los espacios rurales. Sin embargo, la incorporación de …