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Rural Foundation of Walloonia

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Generals Informations
Creation date: 30/11/1976
Structure type:
- Independant service provider
- Public service

Intervention type: European Local Regional

Employement number: 90

Main objective:

To ensure a global service to the communes who take on a rural development project



Coordinate
Country:
Belgique
Adress:

14 avenue Reine Astrid5000 NamurBELGIUM

Phone:
00 32 (0)81 261 882
Fax:
00 32 (0)81 22 45 77
Contact:
m.quoidbach_ANTI_SPAM_@frw.be
Web:
http://www.frw.be/

Presentation

The Rural Foundation of Walloonia is a public interest foundation. The members of its governing board are for that matter designated by the political parties according to the constitution of the Walloon Parliament.

It has a triple function of animating the Walloon rural world, acting as an interface between the local projects and the public authorities, and providing councils and advices about new methods, techniques and groundbreaking ideas.

Themes activities

To help and accompany the redaction and the implementation of communal development programmes, mostly by organising citizen’s participation

Constitute a resource centre for the rural world, especially through its agents and its publications

On the European questions:

- Help the communes to benefit from European opportunities

- Transregional partnerships on research-action and exchanges of experiences on rural development

- Act as an interface between the Walloon local action groups and the regional administration

Activities
  • Agriculture, environment and territory
  • Environmental education and citizenship
  • Employment and inclusion through environmental work

      • Agriculture, environment and territory
      Covered topics:
      Biodiversity / wildlife protection
      Support farmers’ diversification
      Land use (urbanisation control)
      Actions examples:

      Project MUSICAL, (Multifunctionality and local identity as paradigms for sustainable and competitive agriculture), 2007-2010Architectural and town-planning assistance (AAU)

      Europeans partnerships:

      Ghent University (Department of Agricultural Economics and Centre for Mobility and Physical Planning)Catholic University of Leuven (Department of Geography and Centre for Social and Economic Geography)Flemish Institute for research in agriculture and pisciculture

      Environmental education and citizenship
      Covered topics:
      Education and training of professionals or local representatives
      Actions examples:

      Integrated management of the Saint-Hubert forest massif (PGISH), since September 2006 http://environnement.wallonie.be/pgish/ Counselling to communes, informing and raising local actors’ awareness

      Projects/Wishes:

      The Rural Foundation of Walloonia is however interested in having a European partnership on the following theme: education and training of professionals or local representatives

      Employment and inclusion through environmental work
      Covered topics:
      Economic sustainable development
      Actions examples:

      Wood energy and rural development Plan (PBE&DR)