Project "Eco-Basket Please!"
Project "Eco-basket, please!" for transnational cooperation is financed by the Bulgarian side from the Program for the Development of Rural Areas 2014 - 2020, sub-measure 19.3 "Preparation and implementation of activities for the cooperation of local initiative groups" and is implemented in partnership from three Bulgarian and five Slovenian local initiative groups.
Partners
MISSION
Support
The project aims to bring together producers and processors who grow, process and use healthy, local and organic food, as well as other stakeholders, to the objectives of the EU's Farm to Fork strategy, supporting the development of a fair, healthy and ecological clean food chain.
Initiatives
Within the framework of the project, joint initiatives will be implemented to support and promote local, including organic products.
The state of production, processing and supply of local and organic foods in the territory of the partnering LAGs will be analysed. The analysis will provide an insight into the differences and similarities between the two countries and therefore enable the transfer of good practices and experiences between the two countries.
Activities
The activities of the project have a strictly defined target impact for the deployment of the potential for the production and promotion of local and organic products. Acting on this basis, the partnering LAGs create a new joint product for the territories: Joint edition - Catalog "Eco, basket, please!" and created on its basis an Internet-based virtual Agrobiocenter in Bulgarian, English and Slovenian (with QR code).
Opportunities
With the development and distribution of the joint product, an opportunity is provided for a new form of use of territorial resources for the areas of operation of the partnering LAGs to support the production and promotion of local, incl. bioproducts. Information on good European practices in the field of production, distribution and marketing of local and organic products will be provided and disseminated.
Eco-Basket Please!
Duration of the project
The duration of the project is 24 months. For the implementation of the project for joint actions, financing was approved by the Bulgarian governing body for the activities carried out by the Bulgarian MIGs in the amount of BGN 464,696.40, and for the activities of the Slovenian MIGs, the financing approved by the Slovenian governing body is EUR 492,198.
On 17.03.2023 an administrative contract was signed for its implementation.
