1. Local Action Group „Dolina Raby”
Krzysztof Kwatera,
The Chairman of Managing Board and Manager of LAG
Cacak, 5th of Dec., 2018

2. Krzysztof Kwatera President and Manager of LGD Dolina Raby
Representant of Polsih LAGs in the European Network for Rural Development (ENRD)
Member of:
Monitoring Committee of RDP
Working Group for CLLD,
Working Group of Network for Rural Development,
National Panel of Experts for Strategy of III Sector (Non-government organizations)
Group for Volunatary Sector of Prioxy of Polish Prome Minister Office for Civic Society

3. Number of LAGs in regions16 31 28 12 13 29 17 23 18 32 11 20
324 LAGs
4 Funds
Małopolska

4. 24 – Dolina Raby

5. The area, population and budget of LAG Dolina Raby
BISKUPICE
GDÓW
ŁAPANÓW
TRZCIANA
ŻEGOCINA
NOWY
WIŚNICZ
6 Gminas (municipalities):
1 urban-rural
5 rural
Population: (2016)
Budget: about 2 milion Euros

6. LAG main activity
LAG acted within the Measure 19 of the Rural Development Programme – Leader/CLLD
Sub-measures are supports for: 
Implementation of local development strategies;
Implementation of cooperation projects;
Running costs and activation.

7. Profile of Dolina Raby (1)
We are interested in a job creation, especially in the following fields:
food processing, especially connected with traditional local products,
tourism, especially in developing of touristic trails,
pro-ecological construction.

8. Profile of Dolina Raby (2)
Our the most important event is Festiwal Rosołu (the Broth Festival). Because of the first Polish cookbook was written by Stanisław Czerniecki in in the castle of Nowy Wiśnicz. The first position in this book is occupied by Polish Broth.
For the same reason, we run the Cookbook Museum to collect local and regional cookbooks from different regions and countries .

9. Profile of Dolina Raby (3)
We organize also the annual nation- wide competition for the best book about culinary. The prize is a cup founded by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.
We made some tourist trails: bicycle, historical, culinary
We set up the Social Cooperative „Dolina Raby” .

10. Cooperation projects
We took part in 11 cooperation projects (including three preparatory ones). Two projects (with two preparatory ones) were transnational (one with Finnish and one with Irish LAGs). The projects were mainly concerned with a promotion of local traditional food.
We plan other 7 transnational projects with Finnish, Irish, Slovak, Hungarian, Italian, Latvian and Swedish LAGs .

11. Three Erasmus+ projects
Transnational Education in LEADER Implementation TELI2 – the international 1-year course on academic level to improve skills of LAG’s staff and management and decision bodies (Ireland, Croatia, Portugal, Slovenia, Poland, Romania; more - teli2.eu
Glocalization in adult education – good practices (Poland, Slovakia, Latvia) – more FB
Through Culinary to Key Competences – Poland, Cyprus, Finland, Slovenia

12. Krzysztof Kwatera kwatera@onet.pl Tel. 600 856 375
Thank you
Krzysztof Kwatera
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