LEADER

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LEADER (English-language acronym for French Liaison entre actions de développement de l'économie rurale , "Connection between actions for the development of the rural economy") is a program of measures of the European Union that has been promoting innovative actions in rural areas since 1991 . Local action groups work out development concepts on site. The aim is to support the rural regions of Europe on their way to independent development. Due to its successful use as a so-called community initiative between 1991 and 2005, the LEADER approach has been included in mainstream funding as an independent focus since 2006 .

history

The LEADER funding takes place in time-limited funding periods. So far these have been:

  • 1991–1994 (LEADER I)
  • 1994–1999 (LEADER II)
  • 2000–2006 (LEADER +)
  • 2007-2013
  • 2014-2020

With Council Regulation (EC) No. 1260/1999 of June 21, 1999, the Council of the European Union laid down general provisions on the Structural Funds . Structural funds within the meaning of the regulation were the European Regional Development Fund ( ERDF ), the European Social Fund ( ESF ), the European Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee Fund ( EAGGF ), Guidance Section, and the Financial Instrument for Fisheries Guidance ( FIFG). These funds also support Community initiatives, including the LEADER program, for which guidelines have been set out in a separate communication.

Lookout tower in Barßel financed with funds from the LEADER + program

In the form of the joint initiative, LEADER + brought about the breakthrough in the 2000–2006 programming period. For LEADER + in the period from 2000 to 2006, 247 million euros (in 1999 prices) were available in Germany in community funds. The entire EU contribution to LEADER + for this period was financed from the EU agricultural budget through the EAGGF Guidance Section. In Austria, around 75 million euros in community funds were available for LEADER + during the same period.

LEADER + saw itself not only as a continuation of the previous LEADER I and II initiative, but aimed at ambitious, area-specific strategies for the development of rural areas. The cooperation and networking of rural areas and the targeted development of regional management were of particular importance. In principle, all rural areas in the EU could be funded under LEADER +.

General program structure

Since the beginning of the 2007-2013 funding period, LEADER has been part of the mainstream funding of the European Union. The program is financed from the newly created EAFRD fund . This political approach is concretized by the funding programs in the member states. In advance of the funding period, these national programs were brought into line with the EU funding regulations.

The LEADER program is characterized by seven key features:

  1. Territorial local development strategies
  2. Bottom-up development and implementation of strategies
  3. Public-private partnerships: the Local Action Groups (LAG for short)
  4. Facilitate innovation
  5. Integrated and multisectoral actions
  6. Network building
  7. cooperation

Situation in Germany

The federal states are responsible for implementing the EU funding programs in Germany. In the run-up to the funding period, these have drawn up programs for the development of their rural areas, which also include a LEADER approach. The previously established funding guidelines for the EAFRD Fund were a limiting factor in the preparation. While the majority of the federal states selected the regions through a competition, others have chosen a more area-oriented approach (e.g. AktivRegion Schleswig-Holstein ). The number of LEADER regions and their size fluctuates very strongly between one (Hamburg) and 58 (Bavaria). The funding period 2014-2020 shows 321 LEADER regions in Germany, about two thirds of the area of ​​the Federal Republic. LEADER is essentially specified in the Joint Strategic Framework by the LEADER Commission and supplemented by the specifications in. With this, the LEADER Commission would like to transfer the success of the other Structural Funds and motivate them to also implement the LEADER method and to make LEADER funds available for LEADER regions. The LEADER regions are no longer tied to measures in their projects and can focus more thematically on their needs.

One example is the village car project .

Situation in Austria

In Austria there have been a total of 86 regions since 2008. These cover an area of ​​around 72,000 km and 4.3 million inhabitants. With the exception of Vienna, all federal states are represented.

Special case Styria: LEADER culture

The federal state of Styria created a special case in the LEADER period 2007–2013. In cooperation with Department 7 (State and Community Development) and Department 9 (Culture, Europe, External Relations), the “connection between actions for the development of the rural economy” was also interpreted culturally and introduced according to the special guidelines “LEADER Culture”.

The basis for this special case is the “Axis 4 LEADER action program on cultural funding in rural areas from 2007-2013 by the European Union and the State of Styria Culture”. Specialist Gerald Gigler (Department 7) has added "Six points on cultural events" to this set of rules.

The current cultural projects are summarized and accessible on the “Leader regions overview map” (Province of Styria). The first LEADER cultural project as part of this socio-cultural experiment was carried out in 2009 by Gleisdorf Kultur.at: Verein für medienkultur . It is anchored in the LEADER energy region Weiz-Gleisdorf .

  • January 29, 2009: The first Styrian LEADER culture conference in the "Forum Kloster" in Gleisdorf .
  • March 9, 2009: Contract signing for the first Austrian LEADER culture project "Kulturfokus Energie-Region" ( Gleisdorf )
  • 2010: One year of work, three different state culture officers: Kurt Flecker , Bettina Vollath and Christian Buchmann
  • January 18, 2010: Contract signing for the follow-up project: "art east - sociocultural hub" ( Gleisdorf )
  • April 29, 2010: The first LEADER state culture conference with state culture councilor Bettina Vollath in Weiz
  • November 2011: Start of work on the cultural-political sub-project "Kulturpakt Geisdorf"
  • July 4, 2012: The Federal Ministry for Education, Art and Culture draws an interim balance sheet in the conference “Culture in EU Regional Policy” (practice and perspectives), the conference report summarizes current positions from several federal states. The conference is the occasion for the presentation of the study “The creative engine for regional development. Art and culture projects and EU structural funding in Austria ”.

  • The first LEADER cultural conference of the EU project (January 29, 2009)

  • State Councilor Bettina Vollath at the first LEADER regional culture conference in Weiz (April 29, 2010)

LEADER culture projects

  • Bridges to the present, Mariazellerland-Mürz Valley region
  • "Culture Connects" Hausleitner Erlebnisweg , leader project of the Leader Region Weinviertel-Danube area Completion 2014
  • KUKnet Murau, Region Holzwelt Murau
  • Culture 24, Hügelland region east of Graz-Schöcklland
  • Culture in the Liezen district, Upper Ennstal mountain region, Ausseerland-Salzkammergut
  • Living culture in the Styrian Vulkanland region, Styrian Vulkanland region
  • Gleisdorf Culture Pact 2014, Weiz-Gleisdorf Energy Region
  • Art East , Weiz-Gleisdorf energy region
  • Art and time - 10days10artists, Region Oststeirisches Kernland
  • Joglland music and culture region, Joglland energy-giving villages region
  • styrian summer_art / regional, East Styrian heartland region
  • LEADER Mittlere Alb eV, Region: Swabian Alb

Cultural context regions

"In the best possible sense, this LEADER initiative opens up something in different context regions (which do not have to be identical to a single LEADER region) that I would like to call a socio-cultural open space approach ."

- Gerald Gigler

LEADER manager Iris Absenger-Helmli and her colleague Wolfgang Berger support this basic initiative by artists and cultural workers. See: “The EU relies on cultural work” The “Weiz-Gleisdorf energy region” and the “Eastern Styrian heartland” are working out in practice what the Province of Styria has defined as a “cultural context region”. The projects "kunst ost" ("energy region") and "art and time - 10days10artists" ("heartland") are the first of their kind.

2014 to 2020

“In a trialogue on September 24, 2013, a political agreement was reached between the Council and the European Parliament regarding the regulation on rural development 2014–2020.” Rural development in Austria aims at “intelligent, sustainable and stable growth across the whole of Europe Union ”and is“ strongly oriented towards education and investment measures as well as ecological and resource-conserving management ”.

The TIP Tourism Gleisdorf has to April to November 2014 in cooperation with the Culture Lab "Art East" realized its own LEADER cultural project in which evaluated the work of the previous LEADER period and basis for the new LEADER period were fixed " Gleisdorf Culture Pact 2014 ".

The interface between the old and the new LEADER period was a concluding LEADER culture conference on October 21, 2014 in Gleisdorf under the leadership of LEADER manager Iris Absenger-Helmli, as part of the Gleisdorf art symposium 2014.

  • Gleisdorf combines the LEADER program with cultural topics

Situation in Luxembourg

LEADER I (1991–1993) was aimed exclusively at the reservoir region . The entire north of the country was affected by LEADER II (1994–1999), such as Redingen / Wiltz and Clerf / Vianden . All rural regions within Luxembourg (such as Mullerthal ) benefited from LEADER + , for which 2.6 million euros were made available in EAGGF funds up to 2006, which had to be matched by national funds as part of co-financing.

literature

Web links

Commons : LEADER  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ cf. Art. 20 para. 1 lit. c) Council Regulation (EC) No. 1260/1999
  2. ↑ cf. Notice to the Member States of April 14, 2000 (2000 / c 139/05)
  3. ↑ cf. EU Commission: Fact Sheet - The LEADER Approach - A basic guide (p. 9) (PDF; 748 kB) accessed on August 16, 2010
  4. ↑ cf. EAFRD legal basis ( Memento of the original from July 28, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed August 16, 2010. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.netzwerk-laendlicher-raum.de
  5. ↑ Leader in Austria 2007–2013 ( Memento of the original from January 14, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed April 16, 2010. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.leader-austria.at
  6. ↑ LEADER regions ( Memento of the original from July 15, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed April 16, 2010. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.leader-austria.at
  7. ↑ see: [1] Axis 4 LEADER action program, accessed on April 8, 2013
  8. ↑ see: [2] Six points on cultural events, accessed on April 8, 2013
  9. ↑ see: [3] overview map, accessed on April 8, 2013
  10. ↑ [4] Weiz-Gleisdorf energy region, accessed on April 8, 2013
  11. ↑ http://www.ccp-austria.at/newsletter_archiv.php?id=59&start=0 CCP-Aviso (accessed on April 12, 2012)
  12. ↑ http://www.bmukk.gv.at/medienpool/22982/wseukupo_eurp_bericht.pdf (accessed on April 12, 2012)
  13. ↑ http://www.kulturdokumentation.org/download/kreativmotor.pdf (accessed on April 12, 2012)
  14. ↑ http://www.gleisdorf.at/kulturpakt-gleisdorf-2014_758.htm Kulturpakt Gleisdorf 2014, queried on December 3, 2014
  15. ↑ http://www.kunstost.at/ Kunst Ost, queried on December 3, 2014
  16. ↑ Official homepage of the Reutlingen district - LEADER Mittlere Alb eV ( Memento of the original from July 5, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved March 27, 2015. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kreis-reutlingen.de
  17. ↑ http://www.van.at/kunst/ost/labor/set01/labor02.htm
  18. ↑ http ://www.mein Bezirk.at/weiz/politik/die-eu-setzt-auf-kulturarbeit-d455903.html
  19. ↑ http://www.kunstost.at/
  20. ↑ http://www.zeitkultur.at/projekte.de.html
  21. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from October 24, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Queryed on December 3, 2014 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bmlfuw.gv.at
  22. ↑ http://www.bmlfuw.gv.at/land/laendl_entwicklung/allg-infos-le2020/LE2020-Strategie.html  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Queryed on December 3, 2014@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.bmlfuw.gv.at  
  23. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from August 28, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Queryed on December 3, 2014 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.tip.gleisdorf.at
  24. ↑ http://www.gleisdorf.at/kulturpakt-gleisdorf-2014_758.htm Queryed on December 3, 2014
  25. ↑ http://www.gleisdorf.at/qthe-track-axiom-2014q-regionale-kulturkonferenz_30665_189.htm Queryed on December 3, 2014
  26. ↑ Welcome to LEADER in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg! / Peter Feist: Everything for the village. ( Memento of the original from March 13, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. D'Lëtzebuerger Land , February 4, 2000. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.land.lu