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PAJOTTENLAND + [Improving the quality of life] Co-ordinator : Jos Huwaert Pajottenland+ De Pastorie Donkerstraat 21 1750 Gaasbeek Tel: #32 2 532 57 58 [email protected] www.pajottenland.be
Brussels
Agricultural broadening through employment – Agricultural landscape management
This project aims at taking actions to stimulate agricultural nature and landscape management in the area. The preliminary activities contain an inventory of the present situation and the possibilities in the sphere of agricultural nature and landscape management in the Pajottenland and the making of an area-oriented scenario concerning agricultural nature and landscape management, offering solutions for the bottlenecks found. The long term purpose is to create a more typical landscape and to involve the farmers in the development and maintenance of it.
Contact : Bart Sammels Boerenbond Diestsevest 40 3000 Leuven Tel.: #32 16 28 64 38 [email protected]
The house of the living tradition
Muziekmozaïek, a local association that has been organizing folk music events in Gooik for many years, is going to develop an educational centre dealing with all aspects of the folk culture of the Pajottenland (music, literature, traditional games, gastronomy, …). The centre will provide
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Contact : Walter Evenepoel Muziekmozaïek Wijngaardstraat 5 1755 Gooik Tel.: #32 2 532 28 38 [email protected] www.volksmuziek.be
Ironing and mending shop
By setting up an ironing and mending workshop, the six OCMW’s (local public social services) of Pajottenland+ want to offer employment and training to underprivileged and low-skilled local women. The women that will be employed through this project, will receive a thorough training in order to increase their opportunities on the regular job market.
Contact : Joris Samyn OCMW Gooik Ninoofsesteenweg 182 1755 Leerbeek Tel.: #32 2 532 03 24 [email protected]
Paddenbroek
The local association Paddenbroek is developing an educational centre dealing with fruit growing on a site in Gooik which used to be a typical example of a small-scale diversified family business in the Pajottenland until the early 1970’s. On this site, an entire landscape will be restored to its original state: a standard tree orchard will be laid out, as well as a vegetable garden, a herb garden, beehives, hawthorn hedges and a pond. The centre will also cooperate with training projects for handicapped and long-term unemployed persons.
Contact : Bruno Vandewinckel Warandestraat 45 1755 Oetingen Tel.: #32 54 56 83 37 [email protected] www.paddenbroek.be
Care farms
Several organizations and authorities are joining forces in the development of a global project for the stimulation of care farms in the region. The project’s target is to inform and sensitize the
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Contact : Jos Huwaert Secretariaat Pajottenland+ De Pastorie Donkerstraat 21 1750 Gaasbeek Tel.: #32 2 532 57 58 [email protected]
Development of an intercommunal slow-roads network
A global project concerning the development of an intercommunal slow-roads network, for recreational as well as utilitarian use, has been developed, based on an inventory and in consultation with all regional interest groups. The project also includes the construction and maintenance of the slow roads within the network, which will involve as many local people , farmers and volunteers as possible.
Contact : An Rekkers Regionaal Landschap Zenne, Zuun and Zoniën Donkerstraat 21 1750 Gaasbeek Tel.: #32 2 452 60 45 [email protected] www.rlzzz.be
Slow roads maintenance
Within the region of Pajottenland+ the slow roads project is running at the moment. These paths are partially open to the public already. The aim is to maintain these routes - with for instance shoulders and hedges - in the future. This project offers the possibility of consigning this maintenance to the promoters of the Leader+ projects ‘clean team’ and ‘agricultural landscape management’. It is the stepping-stone towards a sustained maintenance of the slow roads.
Contact : Jos Huwaert Secretariaat Pajottenland+ De Pastorie Donkerstraat 21 1750 Gaasbeek Tel.: #32 2 532 57 58 [email protected]
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The Pajottenkrant
By publishing one page in the local paper ‘Het Pajottenland’, reporting on regional initiatives and events, Pajottenland+ wants to reinforce the belonging-to-this-region-feeling with the inhabitants of the Pajottenland. Nevertheless, the Pajottenkrant is first and foremost the chronicle of the Leader+ group and projects.
Contact : Jos Huwaert Secretariaat Pajottenland+ Pajottenland+ Donkerstraat 21 1750 Gaasbeek Tel.: # 32 2 532 57 58 [email protected]
Centre for experimental archaeology
With this project, a number of local associations intend to develop a museum focusing on the prehistory of the Pajottenland, with the intention of introducing visitors to prehistoric techniques by means of experimental archaeology. The centre also organizes adventure trips, aimed at acquiring basic survival techniques.
Contact : Pat Delrue Oetingse Durf- en Avonturenclub Blijkheerstraat 98 1755 Oetingen Tel.: #32 54 56 87 18
Experiencing the countryside
This project offers training and support to agri- and horticulturists who have taken initiatives with regard to experiencing the countryside (farm tourism, educational guided tours, selling farm products at home, …). Arrangements of these initiatives are worked out and the marketing is taken care of. After making an inventory of the farms and market gardens that have already taken initiatives with regard to experiencing the countryside, about three pilot projects will be developed, in which agri- and horticulturists will futher develop the supply of experiencing activities.
Contact : Wim Ceulemans Plattelandsklassen vzw Leemweg 24 9980 Sint-Laureins Tel.: #32 9 379 74 77 [email protected] www.landelijkegilden.be
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Specially adapted transport
With this project, the OCMW’s intend to create a specially adapted transport service for handicapped persons, in order to enhance their social integration.
Contact : Joris Samyn OCMW Gooik Ninoofsesteenweg 182 1755 Leerbeek Tel.: #32 2 532 03 24 [email protected]
Intercommunal clean team
This project aims at a herbicide-free weed management on a number of test locations. The target of this project is to acquire know-how and experience with regard to herbicide-free weed management, in order to create opportunities for the social economy to bring about sustained jobs in this new sector in the long term.
Contact : Jan de Kegel Beschutte Werkplaats Pajottenland Lt. Jacopsstraat 11 1750 Lennik Tel.: #32 2 532 12 40 [email protected]
Full support of OCMW-clients – reintegration on the job market
Through this project the OCMW’s want to offer maximum support to OCMW-clients employed in a social economy initiative or in a social employment initiative, in order to increase their employability on the regular job market. This project particularly wants to offer support in the field of socio-psychological professional training. Each client is provided with an individual coaching programme.
Contact : Chantal Musch OCMW Lennik Frans Vandersteenstraat 6 1750 Lennik Tel.: #32 2 532 41 45 [email protected]
A website on and for the Pajottenland
A website on the Pajottenland is currently being created, which will also provide news on regional initiatives and events. The website will deal with regional history, nature, heritage,
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Contact : Jos Huwaert Secretariaat Pajottenland+ De Pastorie Donkerstraat 21 1750 Gaasbeek Tel.: #32 2 532 57 58 [email protected]
Promoting the Pajottenland
In the late summer of 2004, Pajottenland+ started its own communication and promotion project. This project deals with several objectives of the regional development plan. Promotion in this case primarily means getting people familiar with the region. With this initiative Pajottenland+ also wants to support community development and nature conservation in the six municipalities. For example: one hundred benches. In 2005, ‘Pajottenland – tijdloze streek’ (‘Pajottenland – timeless region’) a project of Opbouwwerk Pajottenland (Community development Pajottenland) was included in the communication and promotion project. The aim is to install sundials in 24 villages of the six municipalities in order to promote education and tourism, possibly with a sundial route as a result.
Contact : Jos Huwaert Sundials: Els Van Langenhove Secretariaat Pajottenland+ De Pastorie De Pastorie Donkerstraat 21 Donkerstraat 21 1750 Gaasbeek 1750 Gaasbeek Tel.: #32 474 47 10 82 Tel.: #32 2 532 57 58 [email protected] [email protected] www.opbouwwerk-pajottenland.tk
Book ‘Pajottenland, een land om lief te hebben’ (Pajottenland, a ‘country’ to love)
Jozef Vrancken’s book ‘Het Pajottenland, een land om lief te hebben’, is being republished by a dozen associations for local history from all over the Pajottenland. The original book was published 25 years ago and is no longer available. The initiators are making an updated edition, including colour photographs. This book, a means of promotion for the region, can be used as a guide line for discovering the region. But, it is also a valuable work that fits in any bookcase in the Pajottenland. Half of the associations for local history and half of the mentioned communities are part of the Pajottenland+ region.
Contact : Joris De Beul Ten Ham 2 1750 Lennik Tel.: #32 2 532 24 58
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Artselingen and PajoSa
During the summer of 2004, the non-profit art society Mansveld from Elingen-Pepingen launched the project Artselingen. In the small and rural village of Elingen, Mansveld traced out a 3,5 kilometre arts walk including works of art and poems. With the project ‘The house of the living tradition’, Muziekmozaïek proposed to extend the actions concerning folk culture towards the six communities of the region. Muziekmozaïek, Artselingen and De Makrallen and the witchcraft society of Bever, joined this new networking project. The project was named PajoSa, which stands for ‘Pajotten Samen’ (Pajottenland inhabitants joined together). The aim is to let the network develop into a collaboration of locals organising activities together. This way, De Makrallen and three folkmusic groups made their contribution to the site of Artselingen. De Makrallen also organised a witches and wizzards session during the music workshop in Gooik and invited the artists and musicians to Bever.
Contact : Artselingen: Jos De Decker PajoSa: Walter Evenepoel Oudenaaksestraat 4 Muziekmozaiek 1671 Elingen Wijngaardstraat 5 Tel.: #32 2 532 57 11 1755 Gooik
[email protected] Tel.: #32 2 532 28 38 [email protected] www.volksmuziek.be
Machinery ring
The agri- and horticultural sector in the Pajottenland is looking for solutions for a difficult future. Farmers want to collectively purchase expensive machines which are used only for a short period during the year. This way, they can keep up with the latest technologies more easily and in addition it creates opportunities for extending their activities. Examples of this are the purchase of an erosion-plough or participating in landscape maintenance. The first phase intends to explore which farmers are interested and which legal structure is most suitable for this type of collaboration. The activities of the machinery ring should have a noticeable effect on the floor in two years.
Contact : Bart Sammels Boerenbond Diestsevest 40 3000 Leuven Tel.: #32 16 28 64 38 [email protected]
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Rural service shops and marketing farm products
The aim of this project is to promote the sustained marketing of farm products and the preservation and reinforcement of the service level in the Pajottenland through the concept of ‘ service shop-rural shop’. After all, this entails a diversification of the rural economy, particularly retail trade and agriculture. It enhances the viability of rural shops and it provides opportunities to farm producers. It also strengthens regional identity. The plan includes a sustained distributive system for farmproducts, from producers to local shops. Farm producers will be put on the umbrella website of the Pajottenland, as well as information on farm products, local shops selling these products and service shops-rural shops.
Contact : Tony Tallon Unizo Vlaams-Brabant & Brussel Tweekerkenstraat 29 1000 Brussel Tel.: 02/238.07.02 [email protected]
PromEURegion Discovering, tasting and enjoying the countryside in Europe [transnational cooperationproject]
The project PromEURegion, co-ordinated by Local Action Group(LAG) PAK+ from Antwerpse Kempen and in co-operation with the LAG’s of Pajottenland+, Clervaux Vianden (Luxemburg) and 100 Dörfer-1 Zukunft (Wallonia), aims on the one hand at supporting the promotion of farm and regional products and on the other hand at getting tourists acqainted with the typical countryside of several regions of the EU. A first part of the project is called ‘Village d’Europe’ and deals with the collaboration in the sphere of farm and regional products. In practice products from the different regions will be offered in a ‘Village d’Europe’ stand on several existing countryside events in each of the participating regions. On each of these occasions a seminar will be organized in order to give producers from the different regions the chance to exchange experiences. A second part of the PromEURegion project is called ‘Route Rurale’. This part deals with the development of exclusive experience-oriented activities which radiate regional identity. Each activity gives attention to regional products, thematic cycling and/or hiking routes, accomodation in a rural context and the opportunity to make a typical regional tour. Finally, the newly developed initiatives will be promoted with joint forces. Thus the different regions promote the products and formats of the others.
Contact : Jos Huwaert Secretariaat Pajottenland+ De Pastorie Donkerstraat 21 1750 Gaasbeek Tel.: #32 2 532 57 58 [email protected]
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