PREPARE Partners: PREPARE Network • Forum Synergies The PREPARE Network has been set up to enable • ECOVAST - European Council exchange and mutual support between all for the Village and Small Town who are interested in rural development throughout Europe. • All Sweden Shall Live • Estonian Village Movement KODUKANT • Village Action Association of Finland Funding • Polish Rural Forum • Hungarian Rural Parliament The PREPARE programme is funded from a variety of sources, public and private. The current • Slovakian Rural Parliament expansion of the work has been funded by • Slovenian Rural Development Network a generous grant from CS Mott Foundation • Lithuanian Rural Communities Union • Latvian Rural Forum • Czech National Rural Observatory • Croatian Rural Development Network Fondation de France PREPARE involvement in: Contact: • Coordination Committee of the European PREPARE office: Network for Rural Development Prešernova ulica 2, • European Leader Sub-committee SI-9240 Ljutomer, Slovenia • Advisory Group for Rural Development at the European Commission PREPARE Coordinator: • Thematic working groups of the ENRD Goran Šoster Strengthening civil society • European Rural Association – ERA Telephone: +386 41 797 613 • European Rural Communities Association – E-mail: [email protected] [email protected] ERCA Promoting multi – national exchange • Convention for Sustainable Urban and Rural You can find further contacts to the members Europe - CURE of the organising group, national networks and individual members of the PREPARE Network at the website: www.PREPARENetwork.org Contributing to rural development Who we are What we do PREPARE highlights • National rural movements in 10 EU countries • Support national campaigns in new EU member Travelling workshops to: and 1 accession country states and accession countries, to strengthen civil • Estonia and Sweden 1999 • 2 pan − European NGOs society at local, regional and national level • Hungary 2000 • Finland 2002 • A growing network of organisations • Organise or support multi – national exchanges and individuals within and beyond EU between people and organisations in different PREPARE Network Gathering in: countries in the rural development field • Slovakia 2003 • Bulgaria 2004 What we believe • Contribute actively to the debate on European • Lithuania and Latvia 2005 policy and funding for rural development • Czech Republic 2006 • Rural development is most successful and • Poland 2007 sustainable where strong partnership are created • Promote networking in rural development throughout Europe • Slovenia and Croatia 2009 at national, regional and local level and where • Macedonia 2010 local people are actively involved in the process • Establish trustful dialogue and cooperation PREPARE contribution to: • People throughout rural Europe have the desire between governments, business and civil society and the ability to take the lead in building better organisations • European Parliament conference Rural economy's lives for themselves contribution to the Lisbon Strategy, Brussels, Belgium, 2005 • It is strongly in the interest of governments, • One Year of EU 25, Bonn, Germany, 2005 at all levels, to bring rural people into full partnership. In that way, they can ensure that • Leader in the New Member States, Tihany, policies are relevant and sustainable and that Hungary, 2006 public money gains a “multiplier” of private • Seminar The role of local authorities and communal effort in the European Union, Duzce, Turkey, 2006 • European Leader conference, Corsica, France, 2007 • OECD Conference on Rural Service Delivery, Köln, Germany 2008 • Workshop Role of civil society organizations in rural development, Zagreb, Croatia 2008 • Seminar Cooperation and organization in local development, Kars, Turkey, 2008 • EU Commission Rural Development Conference, Cyprus, Greece, 2008 • SURE - Sustainable Urban and Rural Europe, Gothenburg, Sweden, 2009 and Krakow, Poland 2010 • EU Commission Conference on CAP after 2013 public debate, Brussels, 2010 Who we are What we do PREPARE highlights • National rural movements in 10 EU countries • Support national campaigns in new EU member Travelling workshops to: and 1 accession country states and accession countries, to strengthen civil • Estonia and Sweden 1999 • 2 pan − European NGOs society at local, regional and national level • Hungary 2000 • Finland 2002 • A growing network of organisations • Organise or support multi – national exchanges and individuals within and beyond EU between people and organisations in different PREPARE Network Gathering in: countries in the rural development field • Slovakia 2003 • Bulgaria 2004 What we believe • Contribute actively to the debate on European • Lithuania and Latvia 2005 policy and funding for rural development • Rural development is most successful and • Czech Republic 2006 sustainable where strong partnership are created • Promote networking in rural development • Poland 2007 at national, regional and local level and where throughout Europe • Slovenia and Croatia 2009 local people are actively involved in the process • Macedonia 2010 • Establish trustful dialogue and cooperation • People throughout rural Europe have the desire PREPARE contribution to: and the ability to take the lead in building better between governments, business and civil society organisations • European Parliament conference Rural economy's lives for themselves contribution to the Lisbon Strategy, Brussels, • It is strongly in the interest of governments, Belgium, 2005 at all levels, to bring rural people into full • One Year of EU 25, Bonn, Germany, 2005 partnership. In that way, they can ensure that • Leader in the New Member States, Tihany, policies are relevant and sustainable and that Hungary, 2006 public money gains a “multiplier” of private and communal effort • Seminar The role of local authorities in the European Union, Duzce, Turkey, 2006 • European Leader conference, Corsica, France, 2007 • OECD Conference on Rural Service Delivery, Köln, Germany 2008 • Workshop Role of civil society organizations in rural development, Zagreb, Croatia 2008 • Seminar Cooperation and organization in local development, Kars, Turkey, 2008 • EU Commission Rural Development Conference, Cyprus, Greece, 2008 • SURE - Sustainable Urban and Rural Europe, Gothenburg, Sweden, 2009 and Krakow, Poland 2010 • EU Commission Conference on CAP after 2013 public debate, Brussels, 2010 Who we are What we do PREPARE highlights • National rural movements in 10 EU countries • Support national campaigns in new EU member Travelling workshops to: and 1 accession country states and accession countries, to strengthen civil • Estonia and Sweden 1999 • 2 pan − European NGOs society at local, regional and national level • Hungary 2000 • Finland 2002 • A growing network of organisations • Organise or support multi – national exchanges and individuals within and beyond EU between people and organisations in different PREPARE Network Gathering in: countries in the rural development field • Slovakia 2003 • Bulgaria 2004 What we believe • Contribute actively to the debate on European • Lithuania and Latvia 2005 policy and funding for rural development • Rural development is most successful and • Czech Republic 2006 sustainable where strong partnership are created • Promote networking in rural development • Poland 2007 at national, regional and local level and where throughout Europe • Slovenia and Croatia 2009 local people are actively involved in the process • Macedonia 2010 • Establish trustful dialogue and cooperation • People throughout rural Europe have the desire PREPARE contribution to: and the ability to take the lead in building better between governments, business and civil society organisations • European Parliament conference Rural economy's lives for themselves contribution to the Lisbon Strategy, Brussels, • It is strongly in the interest of governments, Belgium, 2005 at all levels, to bring rural people into full • One Year of EU 25, Bonn, Germany, 2005 partnership. In that way, they can ensure that • Leader in the New Member States, Tihany, policies are relevant and sustainable and that Hungary, 2006 public money gains a “multiplier” of private and communal effort • Seminar The role of local authorities in the European Union, Duzce, Turkey, 2006 • European Leader conference, Corsica, France, 2007 • OECD Conference on Rural Service Delivery, Köln, Germany 2008 • Workshop Role of civil society organizations in rural development, Zagreb, Croatia 2008 • Seminar Cooperation and organization in local development, Kars, Turkey, 2008 • EU Commission Rural Development Conference, Cyprus, Greece, 2008 • SURE - Sustainable Urban and Rural Europe, Gothenburg, Sweden, 2009 and Krakow, Poland 2010 • EU Commission Conference on CAP after 2013 public debate, Brussels, 2010