Leader Observatory Conference: Leader achievements: a diversity of territorial experience 2223 Novem

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Leader Observatory ConferenceLeader
achievements a diversity of territorial
experience22-23 November 2007Évora/Portugal
European Commission

• Leader Smålandsgruppen

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The panel

• Klas Håkansson, LAG chairman since 3 yrs
• Stig Davidsson, vice chairman in Leader
• Ewa Engdahl, LAG manager
• Magnus Färjhage, project promoter Ramkvilla,
• Susanne Johansson, project promoter
  Possibilities with wood from foliferous trees
• Hans-Olof Stålgren, Swedish Leader Network
• Mårten Sandström, Swedish Managing Authority
• Thomas Norrby, moderator
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• Xavier Delmon, Rapporteur
• Pedro Afonso Fernandes, Evaluator
• George McDowell, External eye

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This session

• Presentation of the panel and session
• The Swedish way of Leader
• LAG-meeting with agenda
• Beehive questions
• Evaluators questions
• Closing words

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Leaderplus in Sweden
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The Swedish way of Leader

• Ministry of Enterprise, Energy and Communications
  
• Charing the Monitoring committee
• Operating Managing Authority x2
• MA1 Swedish National Rural Development Agency
• Initial national plan for Leader
• Responsible for selection process of LAG (12 out
  of 25)
• Closing the Leader program
• MA2 Swedish Board of Agriculture
• Assisting LAGs on legal and fiscal details
• Paying authority
• New MA for 2007-2013 (approx 70 groups in
  progress)
• 12 LAG-groups
• Regional plans based on themes
• Project promoters doing the job
• LAG Deciding body

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Topics which we will elaborate on

• Our way of applying the Leader-method
• How we have organized ourselves
• Cooperation
• Our own evaluation what and why?
• Improved governance
• Improved competetiveness
• Improved sustainablility
• If we could start all over again
• what would you have done differently
• and what will you do in the future?

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• Welcome to our
• LAG-meeting.
• Mr Chairman,
• the floor is yours.

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The board of SmålandsgruppenLAG