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LEADER in Hungary New Hungary Rural Development
Program 2007-2013 Project Idea Exchange For
Interterritorial and Transnational
Cooperation 18-19. 09. 2009. Kozard, Hungary Dr.
Pal Hajas (Cserhatalja LEADER Nonprofit Ltd.,
Kozard, Hungary)
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Background Experience in experimental LEADER in
Hungary
Few selected areas in 2003 16 RD Communities
approved Small resources, few projects based on
municipalities participation Poor LEADER
identity 2004 Birth of the Hungarian LEADER
Alliance, an NGO in RD.
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Background Experience in LEADER in Hungary
Fast Preparation in 2005 70 LAGs approved with
high Government influence. In rush campaign,
LEADER became part of the AVOP (Agricultural and
Rural Development Operative Programme) and lost
its identity Good initiative with low level of
professional freedom in Group formation,
designing and planning.
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Background Experience in LEADER in Hungary
Heavily centralized measures introduced in
project tendering and application Extremely
difficult, complicate and anti-LEADER style
process in project implementation and long
delayed payment to beneficiaries. Frustrated
beneficiaries, disappointed coordinators
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Preparation New RD and LEADER cycle in Hungary
2007-2013
Great enthousiasm for RD Community formation and
double-triple expansion of networked communities
and population RD and LEADER funds supposed to be
6-10 times higher than the present LEADER Plus
budget (3-5 Million Euros/LAG) Hope in a
democratic and professional planning process.
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Preparation New RD and LEADER cycle in Hungary
2007-2013
The Government imposed a centralised RD Office
Network above rural communities in 2007 The
Government invented a software-based centralized
planning process in 2007 The RD strategic
planning became a buerocratic nightmare for rural
communities and planners forcefully imposed and
inappropriate centralized database which lead to
wrong conclusions
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Preparation New LEADER cycle in Hungary 2007-2013
All 96 LAGs have been approved on
26-09-2009 Narrow avenue for local communities in
strategic planning Axis III. Project
applicationclosed on 12.01.2009 Axis IV
Applications begin by 01.10.2009. Super-centralize
d role of the Managing Authority and the Paying
Agency LAGs ha no or little autonomy
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Cserhatalja RD Community and LEADER LAG Nograd
County North Hungary 60-80 Km from Budapest
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Cserhatalja LAG (Nonprofit Ltd.) State of RD and
LEADER planning in Kozard Area
The RD Community has been formed in December 2007
with 114 members 25 villages and 1 small town,
35,000 population (15 villages and 14,500
population in LEADER) Nearly equal 1/3-1/3-1/3
share of public, private and civil stakeholders
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Cserhatalja LAG Priorities and Measures

• Foster local and regional economic development
  and improvement of local employment
• Facilitate agriculture and rural industrial
  development, support services, environment and
  water management and support SMEs in
  technological improvement
• Encourage local processing of food products
• Support better use of natural resources,
  forestry, biomass utilisation and wildlife
  management
• Support biodiversity and organic agriculture
• Facilitate development of rural information
  systems

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Cserhatalja LAG Priorities and Measures

• Improve local livelihood and quality of rural
  life
• Improvement of availability and access to basic
  rural services
• Facilitate conditions for healthy lifestyle
• Strengthen cohesion within and among rural
  communities and reinforce ties of young people to
  their rural living space
• Preservation of local architectural and cultural
  heritage and promote rural art
• Promote and further develop cultural, sport and
  outdoor recreational activities

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Cserhatalja LAG Priorities and Measures

• Human resource development and strengthening
  local social capital
• Develop basic and technical knowledge for local
  population through formal and non-formal
  education
• Promote sustainable forms of local community and
  sub-sectoral cooperations
• Improve environmental sensitivity
• Facilitate equal opportunity for underpriviledged
  groups

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Cserhatalja LAG Priorities and Measures

• Develop rural tourism, hospitality and associated
  services
• Promote environment-friendly rural tourism forms,
  i.e. eco-tourism, green ways, and encourage
  development of innovative tourism products
• Develop local and regional tourism information
  services and support better access of
  stakeholders to tourism marketing
• Coordinate local and regional tourism activities
  and synchcronization with strategic development
  plans
• Support development of cultural, gastronomy, wine
  and festival tourism

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Cserhatalja LAG Priorities and Measures

• Support development of regional marketing
• Elaborate regional strengths and opportinities
  and create regions image in order to achieve
  better regional identity
• Undertake territorial, products and services
  marketing
• Encourage investment to primary sectors
  (agriculture, fruit, dairy, meat, local
  industries and services, tourism, etc.)

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Cserhatalja LAG Priorities and Measures

• Facilitate inter-territorial and transnational
  cooperation
• Promote public, private and civil societies
  participation in wider cooperation with
  communities within the country
• Promote transnational cooperation in selected
  priority areas and exchage of experiences, goods
  and services
• Facilitate access to good practices

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Cserhatalja LAG Transnational Project Areas

• Better use of natural resources in rural areas
• Develop cooperation in innovative forest and
  wildlife management
• Promote water harvesting projects
• Develop new forms of eco-friendly tourism, sport
  and recreation activities
• Develop project for Maria Spiritual Pilgrimage
  Trail
• Develop biodiversity conservation projects in
  harmony with EU RD plans (Axis 2 in particular)

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Cserhatalja LAG Transnational Project Areas

• Promote local processing of food products
• Diversify farmers household activities in
  promoting traditional food processing
• Organize regional farmers product sales points
• Develop local product exchanges among cooperating
  project partners
• Better use of indigenous plants and rare breeds
  for local products in traditional gastronomy and
  rural tourism

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Cserhatalja LAG Transnational Project Areas

• Preparation of village development plans
• Implement active and forward looking rural
  development programs through village development
  planning
• Acquire guidance in VDP process from experienced
  LEADER communities of LEADER Plus period

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Cserhatalja LAG Transnational Project Areas

• Develop cultural routes for better protection of
  folklore and cultural heritage
• Identify cultural routes for boosting regional
  tourism
• Select sites for Land Art concept
• Organize folklore events, cultural festivals for
  young people.

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Cserhatalja LAG Transnational Project Areas

• Agreed Trans-European Tourism Project
• Along Birds Routes
• Identify routes from North to South, like the
  migratory birds commute
• Objective connect people and boost regional
  tourism
• Select sites for ornitological tourism
• Organize folklore events, cultural festivals for
  young people.
• Promote rural gastronomy and local product market

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Cserhatalja LAG Transnational Project Areas

• Agreed Trans-European Tourism Project
• Along Birds Routes
• Interested countries Finland, Sweden,
  Netherlands, Poland, Hungary, Italy,
  Spain,Portugal
• Possibility for 3 sub-projects
• North Europe to S-West Europe (Spain-Portugal)
• North Europe to S-Europe (Slovenia-Italy)
• North-Europe to S-East Europe (Bulgaria-Greece)

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Cserhatalja LAG Regional LEADER Day and
Transnational Project Meeting Date 18-19. 09.
2009 Venue Kozard Apple Valley, Hungary Theme
Local Products, gastronomy and folklore show
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2. European LEADER EXPO Trans-European LEADER
Festival, Products, Tourism and Cultural
Fair March 2010, Budapest Organized by Hungarian
LEADER Alliance ELARD Support Ministry of
Agriculture and RD, Hungary
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Cserhatalja LAG Contact Dr. Pal Hajas,
Chairman Mr. Jozsef Kodak, Director Ms. Monika
Tabori, Manager assistant Tel [phone],
Fax [phone] E-mail info_at_cserhatalja.eu
Web www.cserhatalja.eu
Thank you!