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LoProDeNLocal Product Development Network

(Foundation and start a cooperation in the GRIP IT partner regions)

€ 121.400,00

Regione Autonoma Friuli Venezia Giulia

Workshop for sub projects

Udine 17th of October 2006

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Partnership

• Pannon Handcraft ClusterWest-Pannon Region, Hungary (Lead partner)

• LAG Euroleader s.cons.r. l., Regione Friuli Venezia Giulia, Italy

• MEDES Observatory for economic problems associated with desertification in Mediterranean areasRegione Basilicata, Italy

• LAG Sdružení SPLAVKrálovéhradecky Kraj, Czech Republic

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Pannon Handcraft Cluster

• experiences in social employment, in youth programs, rural and economic development programs, and also in cultural programs

• much projects in Structural Funds and also in Interreg

• project in the regional fund Innoreg, which aims to support innovative initiatives in the regions (Local products in the West-Pannon Region)

• the cluster would like to build an European network of local products, therefore he tried to find partners from each GRIP IT partner regions.

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LAG Euroleader

The main aim of Euroleader is • to promote a network among different stakeholders in

territories of Carnia and Gemonese with the purpose of supporting economic, cultural and social development using a bottom up approach

The Local Development Plan aims to act: • on cultural model • on management model • on productive model

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LAG Euroleader

Euroleader, in this period, is involved in various cooperation projects:

• Econet Europe: Environmental education• Improve: Connection between rural and young

enterprises • Stra.S.S.E.: Strategic planning

• TONE: Tourism Network in Historic Centres

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LAG Euroleader

Euroleader specifics aims in LoProDeN:

• to integrate Leader+ initiatives with cooperation’s

projects • to reinforce a local development based on local

products also in relation with a sustainable tourism reinforcement

• to create and implement a Local Product Network for SMEs and supporting organizations in the GRIP IT regions

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MEDES

Is a non-profit organization promoted by the University of Basilicata and the National Association of Mountain Territory:

• to develop training programmes that translate research results into practical instruments for sustainable land use planning and farm management

• to make information• to give advice on the practical application of the

principles of and tools for sustainable development

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MEDES

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 (I, II, III), 1991-1999

• MEDIMONT

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MEDES

These are the research activities on going:

SIXTH FRAMEWORK PROGRAMME • LUCINDA Type of instrument: SPECIFIC SUPPORT ACTION

• DESIRE Type of instrument: IINTEGRATED PROJECT

INTERREG III B ARCHIMED • IMAGE Sustainable use of water resources and rural

development in drought affected areas • HADRIAMED Harmonious Development of Rural and Insular

Areas

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LAG Sdružení SPLAV

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

• We´ll live together 2006

In partnership• The Country-our Common Domesticity 2006

• The Evolution of The Eagle Mountains 2006

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LoProDeN Objectives

• Local products in many European Union countries are special more point of view

• It is characteristic only of production’s place, unique, that is the reason why local products need special marketing and market strategy

• Not only different characteristic local products are produced in GRIP IT regions, but subsidies, producers, marketing, market acquisition and market regulating are different too.

• The main aim of the project is establishment of local products network in GRIP IT regions.

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LoProDeN Objectives

• Our aims

are finding of local products’ producers, making them interested in international cooperation in favour of more profitable operating

• Our tools

are common workshop, case studies, trainings, meetings, where we will work out the common plan of action, which can help achieving our aims

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LoProDeN Activities

• Component 1 Management and Coordination

Pannon Handcraft Cluster

• Component 2 Local Product Development Network

Pannon Handcraft Cluster

• Component 3 Result transfer and dissemination LAG Euroleader

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LoProDeN Activities

Kick off meetingOszkó, 16th September 2006

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LoProDeN News

• One feasibility study is being prepared about how to build an international network of local products

• this study must be executed until December 2006.

• One common meeting • will be organized with the participation of the partners

and the handcrafters, where they can discuss about production, problems, markets, marketing-tools, they can build international contacts, perhaps in sale and production, too