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Estonian National
Rural Network
The experiences and best practices of
the LEADER programme and the
activities of the National Network in
Estonia
12. December, 2011
Vajdahunyad castle, Budapest
The total Estonian RDP budget of the
programming period 2007-2013
The total Estonian RDP budget is 924,8,9 mln EUR
LEADER
TA
Axis III
Axis I
Axis II
Axis I
Improving the competitiveness
37,6% - 347,6 mln EUR
Axis II
Improving the environment
36,2% - 334,4 mln EUR
Axis III
Quality of life
12,9% - 118,9 mln EUR
Axis IV
LEADER
10 % - 86 mln EUR
Technical support
4% - 38,1 mln EUR
Leader start in Estonia
 2004-2006 – LEADER-approach by the measure 3.6
“Local initiative based development projects – LEADER”
within the framework of the Estonian National
Development Plan
 Leader-measure was implemented by two options:
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acquisition of skills
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the adoption of integrated rural area development
strategy.
 24 LAGs
National criteria
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LAG’s legal status = non-governmental organisation
Objective of status must be development of rural life
Area of LAG = minimum 2 municipalities
Small towns up to 4000 inhabitants
Municipality can enter to LAG only together with at
least 1 community-based organisation + 1
entrepreneur from their area.
 LAG should be open for new members
 LAG must have developed or must intend to develop
a local development strategy
 Members of the LAG must not be members of any
other LAG at the same time
Main tasks carried out by the LAGs
 Elaboration of calls including
definition of local selection criteria
 Publication of calls
 Reception of applications
 Project assessment
 Project ranking
 Final list of selected projects
proposed on the PA including
fixing the amount of support
TODAY – Leader covers 99,99% of Estonian
rural areas
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Number of LAG’s: 26
Number of inhabitants in Leader areas: 504 363
The territory of Leader area: 42 827 km²
The average number of inhabitants of Estonian LAGs is
19,411 people per LAG’s are
• The biggest number of inhabitants among LAGs: 36,563
• The smallest number of inhabitants among LAGs: 7,240
– 24 LAGs – started implementation in 2009; 2 LAGs –
started in 2010
Membership
• Number of LAG-members: 1 554
– public sector 13 %
– entrepreneurs 37 %
– non-profit sector 50 %
Every LAG has 60 members on the average
Financial execution of ERDP
(31.10.2012) - 1
• As if 5. December 2012 paying agency
(Agricultural Registers and Information Board –
ARIB) has approved 5,999 Leader projects support in total of 65.1 mln EUR, which:
– 3% of RDP Axis 1 - 224 projects and support in total
of 2.7 mln EUR
– 96% of RDP Axis 3 – 5,716 projects and support in
total of 57.9 mln EUR
– 1 % cooperation projects - 52 projects, 23 of them are
transnational cooperation projects
+ 2 TNC projects is in process of apporval
Financial execution of ERDP
(31.10.2012) - 2
• PA has finished and payed Leader
– projects: 52.7 %
– administrative costs to LAG-s 58,1 %
Leader implementation
(01.11.2012)
17%
9%
74%
Private sector
Local government
Third sector
Transnational cooperation
Approved TNC:
1. Cooperation in Cultural Heritage
Exploitation
2. Traditional sailing and maritime
heritage
3. Clower Power. 4H twinning
people.
4. From Salla to Salla
5. International Theme Routes
6. Dare to Dream
7. Loving Local Values
8. Planet said to me…
9. ECOLAND Leader
Transnational cooperation
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Estonian LAG-s have partners in
16 countries: Finland, Czech
Republic, Slovakia, Denmark,
Sweden, Norway, Latvia,
Luxemburg, France, Austria, Italia,
Russia, Portugal, Lithuania, Spain,
UK
Avarage TNC budget 223 641
EUR.
Main subjects are: national cultural
heritage, expirience exchange,
youth, tourism, cooperation
between enterpreneurs.
Leader TNC 2007-2013
 TNC main procedures are regulated by the national
Leader legislation.
 TNC projects are part of the LAG strategy and
budget.
 LAGs had to specify their project ideas in their LDS
without naming the potential project partners.
 Maximum support per project is up to 200 000 EUR
and up to 90%. The eligibility criteria are the same as
for local projects under the LEADER measure.
 Preparatory technical support is part of LAGs
administrative costs (visits, hosting and meetings with
potential partners).
 Refund rate for the TNC project is up to 90%
 Application procedure: on-going
Success of Leader in Estonia
LAG’s and Leader is visible
LAG = important regional development unit
LAG = real cooperation of sectors
LAG = active internationally
LAG = adviser
LAG = administrative capacity (230 positive
applications)
Regional food networks
• 13 LAGs have established regional food
networks to raise the competitiveness of local
small producers.
• The most well-known networks in Estonia are
Delicious South-Estonia (Maitsev Lõuna-Eesti),
Local Taste (Uma Mekk), The Greener Mark of
Põlva county (Põlvamaa Rohelisem Märk) and
marketing association that joins small-producers
of Saaremaa island.
Rural tourism networks
• 11 LAGs have improved the potential of rural areas
through creating new tourism networks.
• The most successful ones are for example Romantic
Coastline (Romantiline Rannatee) in Pärnu county,
Onion Road (Sibulatee) in Tartu county and Post Road
(Postitee) in Põlva county. Active people have started or
are going to start many projects that are unique in the
whole Europe, like Peter the Great's Naval Fortress as a
military tourism object, geo-park in Tartu and Jõgeva
county, Alutaguse Adventure Park and rowing
watercourses in old oil shale pit in Aidu.
Use of alternative energy
• There have been investments in many different
sustainable solutions that use alternative energy. For
example, Leader measure has supported
• straw-briquette manufactory in Peipsi-Alutaguse and
East-Harju county,
• the first solar panel manufactory in Estonia situated in
North-Harju county,
• and bio-granules manufactory in Viru-counties that uses
waste-paper, straw and turf for production.
Regional cooperation
• Leader is a programme that facilitates regional
cooperation between more than two LAG’s. For
example:
• place-marketing cooperation near lake Peipus between
five Local action groups (including Peipsi fisheries area),
• West-Estonian food network between three LAGs, smallproducers cooperation between five South-Estonian
LAGs,
• cooperation based on local food between three LAGs
from Ida-Viru county.
Leaderi future discussions
• Since September 2011.a Ministry of Agryculture –
Steering Committee and 11 thematic working groups
for programming RDP for 2014-2020
– started also Working group of COMMUNITYLED LOCAL DEVELOPMENT AND Leader 2014+
preparation
Working group meetings in 2012.a: 5.October,
25.October, 14.November and 12. November
– Representaives from different ministries and
organisations (Rural Parliament, universities,
etc).
Activities to show positive of Leader-method –
organised by ENRN
– Leader seminars – speakers from different ministries
– Leader conference + fair “Europe Day with
Leaderiga” – more than 260 participants, exhibition
of Leader projects (different ministries, rural actors)
– Study tour to Finland to introduce with Leader and
CLLD preparation – participants from other ministries
– Leader-study tours in Estonia – 5 different in 5 days
– 3-5 project visits + 2 h discussions with LAG
representatives.
Estonian Rural Network Unit
Overall structure – where is NRN?
Managing Authority (MA)
Ministry of Agriculture
Paying Agency (PA)
Agricultural Registration and
Information Board (ARIB)
Department of Rural
Network and Fisheries
Network
National Rural Network
(NRN)
Bureau of Rural Network
Rural Economy Research
Centre
Department of Analyses of
Agricultural Sector (FADN)
Bureau of Fisheries
Network
Estonian National Rural Network
• Estonian Rural Network Unit was established by the
Rural Economy Research Centre (an authority under
the administration of the Ministry of Agriculture) and
started its activities in May 2007.
• The main objective of the Estonian National Rural
Network is to add value to the implementation of the
Estonian Rural Development Programme 2007-2013
(RDP).
Structure of Estonian Rural Network
• Estonian Rural Network Unit – no formal membership,
at the moment 7 full time employee
• Network Cooperation Chamber – involves associations
and organizations representing programme beneficiaries
and organizations and authorities engaged in rural
development. The members are selected according to the
objectives of the axes of the Rural Development Plan
• Budget – for the period 2007-2013 max. 4,480,000 € from
RDP technical assistant
NRN in next period
• Infomation source for CSF partners about
LEADER-method and best practices;
• Information and assitance for new
stakeholders, LAG-s and regions;
• Support for monitoring;
• Assistance for inter-territorial and
transnational co-operation.
The actual roles of NRN
• More non-formal position than MA or PA-s.
• Trustful partner for stakeholders
• Communicates with stakeholders in more
understandable language
• Possibility to be active internationally
• NRN = LEADER; 7 LEADER principles are
important also to NRN
• Can initiate new (innovative) actions
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NRN tools:
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Trustful information
Flexibility in actions
Possibility to initiate new actions
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RESOURSES
Very important that NRN will keep these
operation principles and tools also for next
period
NRN and LEADER in 2007-2013
• NRN brings
parts
together,
• Keep
dialogue
between
parts ongoing
LAG
MA
PA
NRN 2014-2020
• NRN will bring
more parts
together
• keep dialogue
continued
• Look and
spread
information for
and about new
CSF parts
LAG
MA
CSF
Funds
PA
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Estonian NRN Activities
Website of Leader
• Mainly 3 bigger target groups:
1) 26 Local Action Groups (RDP Axis 4)
2) wider rural development (RDP Axis 1-3)
3) authorities related with implementing RDP
(Axis 1-4)
• Keywords:
– Step by step widening the target group (axis 1-3)
– consideration of bottom-up initiative and cooperation
Website of CAP future issues
NRN collects, stores and disseminates
Databases on NRN website:
- RDP 2007-2013 project examples database, also in English
- Articles of weekly e-newsletter Võrgukiri are archived in
database, so the articles are available by themes and subthemes
- Information about all Estonian RDP measures are
collected in the database – it is like a history of measures
(beneficiaries, regulations etc) and all articles about project
examples can be found from the database through keywords
- Database of Estonian LAGs (also in English) with interactive
map and all articles about specific LAG can be found from the
database through keywords
• Database of Leader transnational cooperation offers
Cooperation with Estonian Public
Broadcasting
• Started 2008, continued 2010 and 2011.
• Summer 2011:
– TV show “Estonian Game” (Eesti mäng) where NRN helped to
search participants from LAGs, helped to find questions (incl.
video-questions) and gifts (through LAGs)
– 30 videoclips about different Leader projects from all over the
Estonia, each of them are 7-10 minutes long and will be on air
during autumn in every Saturday and Sunday at 18.20 in
broadcasting named “Beautiful country” (Ilus maa).
– All the videos will also be available on the NRN website through
YouTube.
TV show “Estonian Game” and
video clips “Beatiful Country”
The Best Leader projects in 2011 “Notice
Leader”
• 31.03-30.04.2011 A project proposals call was
opened – everybody was allowed to make proposals
• 14.-16.04 – NRN disseminated leaflets about the contest
in Rural Fair
• All together 64 project proposals in 5 categories
(agriculture, rural entrepreneurship, environment, youth,
cooperation)
• Lessons learnt: a new category for development
projects is also needed
The Best Leader projects in 2011 “Notice
Leader”
The Best Leader projects in 2011 “Notice
Leader”
Brochure with all 20 nominees
Prize
Thank you for your attention!
Estonian Rural Network
[email protected]
www.maainfo.ee