SLOVENIAN RURAL DEVELOPMENT NETWORK
SRDN
DRUŠTVO ZA RAZVOJ SLOVENSKEGA PODEŽELJA - DRSP
Goran Šoster,
LEADER Seminar
Croatia / Mrkopolje / Nov. 2011
Slovenian Rural Development Network SRDN
 Emerged as follow up of the Integral rural
development programmes and regional workshops of
the initiative PREPARE (Partnership for Rural Europe)
 Established 16. Oct. 2002,
 Start of operation in January 2003
 Membership: individuals, NGOs, LAGs from all
Slovenian area
 New members: 27 LAGs (from total 33)
 SRDN is the meeting and coordination place to
support integral development and projects in the rural
area
Mission of the SRDN
 Connecting all actors from the different levels of the
rural area
 Supporting cooperation, links and exchange between
institutions and individuals in the rural area
 Representing the interests of the members on the
national and international level
 Enable the flow of information on all levels between
non governmental and governnmental level
 To represent the rural civil society in the process of
preparation of the Rural Development policy
On going activities of SRDN
 Expanding the membership beyond LAGs
 Informing the members and publicity about
achievements and problems in rural development
 Cooperation in the international activities and
initiatives and in the bodies of EU
 Trainings and education programmes for the
members
 Implamenting of projects like:
 TEPA – training of European partnership animators,
 Grundtvig – Learning partnerships
3 leading themes of the project TEPA
From local
participation to
intersectoral
partnership
Strategic
planing
Rural
resource
management
Content and duration of the TEPA
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Preparation of the training programme for partnership animators
Manual for animators and partnerships
Project duration: autumn 2006 - autumn 2008
Budget of the project: 161.225 €
Involved:
 6 countries (Slovenia, Slovakia, Czech Republic,
Poland, Hungary, Sweden)
 9 partners
 15 experienced experts for rural development
 50 participants of the trainings
 More than 10 local partnerships (exchange)
Training of animators
 Two pilot trainings – each training gathered 25
participants from 5 countries
 First training: locations from Slovenia and Hungary
 Second training: Slovakia, Czech R. and Poland
 Each training different methodological approach
Cooperation in the European
initiatives
 PREPARE (active member)
 13 countries: Sweden, Finland, Estonia,
Latvia, Litvania, Poland, Czech R., Slovakia,
Hungary, Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia,
(Macedonia)
 Target countries: Albania, Belorusia, BiH,
Bulgaria, Monte Negro, Romania, Turkey,
Ukraine
 Representative in the EN RD
COORDINATION COMMITTEE
 Representatives in LEADER SUB-COMMITTEE
 Representative in DG Agri-RD Advisorygroup
Cooperation in the European
initiatives
 ELARD (European LEADER Network)
 Member of ERA – European Rural Alliance
 Member of ERCA – European Rural
Communities Accociation
 Bilateral or multilateral initiatives related to
certain projects (cooperation with Italian,
Croatian, Hungarian and Austrian partners)
 Transnational cooperation in projects
 with Latvian Rural Forum in Turkey;
 with ALKA in Macedonia
 with IDM in Albania
What makes us visible in the country
 Publishing the statements about RD policy,
created within:
 PREPARE OG
 Round tables
 Organising events (focused on the
membership needs – recently LEADER
oriented)
 Active participation in the proces of creation
(SUGGESTIONS TO M.A.) and
implementation of RD policy (MONITORING
COMMITTEE) 2004-2006 and 2007-2013
 Connecting local initiatives + LAGs
Achievements of SRDN until
today
PREPARE GATHERING 2009
 Organised in co-operation with HMRR
 80 participants from 18 countries
 10 EU member states
 8 non member states with expressed interest
on joining EU
Achievements of SRDN
until today - LEADER
 Status of umbrella organisation –
network of LOCAL ACTION GROUPS
 LEADER programme is temporary
focus of the SRDN
 33 LAGs active in LEADER programme
 27 of them are members of SRDN
 Recognised representative of LAGs
and rural civil society according to the
voluntary input and delivered results
Thanks for your attention !!!
contact:
goran@preparenetwork.org