This is how it goes
Below you will find some tips on how to proceed and make a project application.
If you have questions, please feel free to contact the leader office.
Four steps to your project
A project is a process with four different steps. To begin with, there must be a development idea, something that can be refined and summarized into a concrete project, and a formal project application must be written. After that, the project, if approved, should be implemented according to the conditions and regulations that exist. Finally, the project should be concluded and reported.
Step 1
Getting started
When you have read through our strategy and you believe that your project fits into one of our three intervention areas:
- Smart Rural Areas
- Attractive local environment
- Passionate entrepreneurship
Consider the purpose and goals of your project as well as the activities you want to carry out in the project.
Before you write your application, please feel free to contact the leader office so we can guide you further in the application process.
Step 2
Writing an application
You start by applying for Power of Attorney. You do this on the form that you find at agriculturalagency.se
After that, log in to the Swedish Board of Agriculture with your Bank-ID. Then select My Pages and support within Local development. If you have spoken with the leader office, you can choose Step 2 application.
Fill in the application, remember to save.
Keep in mind that what you write in your application must be fulfilled. Think carefully about purpose, goals, activities, and budget, and ensure that these run as a ”red thread” throughout the entire application.
Only when you have submitted your application on the Swedish Board of Agriculture's website can we at the leader office see your application and begin processing it. During the processing, we may ask you to supplement the application if information is missing or if something needs clarification.
We at the leader office do not have the right to change, add, or remove anything you have written in your application; only the person who has the power of attorney can do that.
Step 3
Implement
When your application is complete, it will be considered for decision at a LAG meeting. LAG has 4 meetings per year. You can see the dates they meet under Calendar.
LAG scores your project based on our Leader area's specific selection criteria as well as the horizontal criteria. (see Development Hälsingebygden's Strategy) Each project must reach 400 points; otherwise, it will be rejected.
LAG's decisions cannot be appealed.
After that, your application with the required documentation is sent to the Swedish Board of Agriculture. If they believe that LAG has made an incorrect assessment, the Swedish Board of Agriculture can change the decision.
The Swedish Board of Agriculture has about 5 months to process the case. IF you as the project owner choose to start the project before the Swedish Board of Agriculture's processing is complete, you do so at YOUR OWN RISK.
Step 4
End
During the project period, you have likely had many contacts with your Leader office. The conclusion is no more difficult than the start of the project. A final report should be made where we together review what the project has achieved regarding purpose, goals, activities, and budget.
Even during the project's course, we have several follow-up meetings to see if anything needs to be corrected or updated.
It can be good to apply for partial payment on several occasions during the project period, preferably every three months. The processing times of the Swedish Board of Agriculture are usually 4-5 months.
Can YOUR idea become
a leader project?
Use our checklist!
Does the project fall within the framework of our strategy?
Can the project clearly contribute to achieving the goals of the strategy? Does the project fit into one of our three focus areas; Smart rural areas, Attractive local environment, or Passionate entrepreneurship?.
Gender equality
Is the project's working method and distribution of tasks designed so that women and men have equal opportunities to influence the project's design, participate in the implementation, and benefit from the project's results?
Collaboration
Should the project take place in collaboration between at least two of the sectors: non-profit, private, and public?
Broad benefit
Will the project's expected results be of broad benefit, meaning improvements/development for more than those who carry out the project?
Implementation capacity
Is there an organized financing and plan for how the project could be implemented practically?
Innovative thinking
Should the project be used to create development in various ways – not to support already existing activities?
Non-discrimination
Have you considered openness and non-discrimination? It is important that no one is prevented from influencing the project's design, participating in the implementation, or benefiting from the project's results due to gender, ethnic affiliation, religion, disability, sexual orientation, or age.
Did you answer yes to these questions? How fun!
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