Leader Observatory Conference:

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

• Összefogás Sárrét Jövojéért Local Action Group,
  Hungary

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Decision-making bodies and LAG structure in
Hungary
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Main topics to be discussed

• Keeping young people in the countryside
• Enhancing the quality of local products
• Preserving cultural traditions
• Building local communities
• Tourism development
• LEADER - Hungarian Rural Tourism Days
• Cross-border cooperation 1st Hungarian-Romanian
  LEADER Conference

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Key messages

• Creating liveable villages
• Creating workplaces
• No rural development without involving local
  people
• Different approach needed for NMS
• Aims and implementation on community level LEADER
  takes time
• LEADER is not a target a tool
• Professional management needed
• Looking beyond LEADER