2023 European LEADER Congress

• debate on the future of LEADER within European policies with Parliamentary and Commission officials
• award LEADER's best European projects
• bring your wish to share for the future of LEADER 
• learn from others in workshops on all of the new programming period’s hot topics
• meet LEADER stakeholders from all around Europe

This congress brought together more than 600 Local Action Group members from all over Europe, and officials from the European Commission, MEPs committed to LEADER and rural development, as well as representatives of national and regional rural networks, and managing authorities.  

In the context of the review of European policies post 2027 and those supporting rural areas, the congress brought together representatives of the LEADER programme and CLLD in Europe this year to take stock of the support to rural development in Europe, to give a place and a voice to rural areas within the hemicycle of the European Parliament and highlight the challenges linked to rural areas in the context of a pre-electoral year.

• Watch the recordings of the plenary session here: https://leadercongress.eu/en/webstreaming/
• Discover the winners of the European LEADER awards and their projects here: https://leadercongress.eu/en/category/the-winners/ 

For more information access the event website: https://leadercongress.eu/