TNC partnerships help communities achieve results that they could not have achieved by working alone. The LEADER TNC project ‘Living Museums’ shows how this works in practice.

LAGs use their transnational cooperation (TNC) funds to help local communities learn from peers in different areas and countries about new ways of developing the rural economy. TNC partnerships help communities achieve results that they could not have achieved by working alone. The LEADER TNC project ‘Living Museums’ shows how this works in practice.

Spain and Czechia cooperated transnationally on the Living Museums projectOpen link in new window, which was nominated for a Rural Inspiration Award in 2022 under the Digital Futures category due to its success in advancing the benefits of digitalisation in farming and rural communities. It represents good practice as to how the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) can facilitate community-led approaches to digital service provision, the take-up of new technology and improved digital knowhow for rural communities.

Tourism services were the focus of this transnational cooperation (TNC) project, which launched a new approach to allowing visitor access to small cultural tourism facilities that could not afford to maintain full-time staff supervision. LEADER funds were invested in SMART technology to digitaliseOpen link in new window the automation of the opening, the video monitoring and the closing of museums, interpretation centres and cultural sites in rural areas.