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Social Entrepreneurship – New Possibilities for the Rural Areas 14. november 2012

Social Entrepreneurship – New Possibilities for the Rural Areas 14. november 2012 L ithuania , Trakai Estonian Rural Network experiences with Social Farming Meeri Klooren Estonia Rural Network Unit. What is Social Farming ?.

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Social Entrepreneurship – New Possibilities for the Rural Areas 14. november 2012

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  1. Social Entrepreneurship – New Possibilities for the Rural Areas 14. november 2012 Lithuania, Trakai Estonian Rural Network experiences with Social Farming Meeri Klooren Estonia Rural Network Unit

  2. WhatisSocialFarming? There is no universally agreed definition of the concept of social farming Social Farmingusefarming andagriculture as a therapeutic tool to provide health,social or educational care services It is a “new” source of farm income and one of the multiple new functions that agriculture can fulfill in an urbanizing society. Different terms, same meaning: Care farming, Green care, farming for health

  3. SocialFarminginEurope Source: 18/03/2011 Social Farming Seminar in Northern Ireland, Aideen McGloin, Rural Development Section, School of Agriculture, Food Science and Veterinary Medicine

  4. WhatisSocialFarming?VIDEO Social Farming in the UK- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71CA-kHonhI&feature=player_embedded#!

  5. ENRD Social Farming Thematic Initiative (1) Estonian Rural Network (NRN) activities for Social Farming (SF) are based on European Network for Rural Development (ENRD) thematic working group. During the 4th NRN meeting held in Seville on the 8th of June 2009, the Italian National Rural Network proposed the establishment of a specific thematic activity on Social Farming and invited the other NRNs to express their interest in participating.

  6. ENRD Social Farming Thematic Initiative (2) The results of working group: Overview paper (small study) about Social Farming current status in EU countries Collected17 case studies Participants from 7 EU member states: Austria, Belgium (Flanders), Finland, Ireland, Italy, Swedenand United Kingdom For more information: http://enrd.ec.europa.eu/themes/social-aspects/social-farming/en/social-farming_en.cfm

  7. ENRD Social Farming Thematic Initiative (3) The specific purpose of the social farming thematic initiative is to improve the implementation of RDPs(Rural Development Programs) in support of social farming and to provide inputs to the development of the future programming period at National and EU level.

  8. ActivitiesofEstonianRural Network forSocialFarming -SEMINARS 8 December 2010 - Social farming Roundtable in Pahkla Camphill Village 13 December 2011 - Thematic day“Social farming - opportunities in Estonia” 28 March 2012 - Thematic day “Opportunities to start with Social farming?"

  9. ActivitiesofEstonianRural Network forSocialFarming -PICTURES

  10. ActivitiesofEstonianRural Network forSocialFarming - STUDY-TRIP (1) 29 November - 2 December 2011 - thematic study-trip about social farming to Italy (near Rome) Organized by Estonian Rural Network in cooperation with Italian Rural Network Participants: Central Association of Estonian Farmers, Ministry ofAgriculture, Ministry of Social Affairs, Estonian, Unemployment InsuranceFund, Estonian Agricultural Registers and Information Board, Estonian Chamber of Disabled People. Visited different social farming organizations: “Agricultural Capodarco” farm, Iacchelli social farm, Garibaldi Institute etc.

  11. ActivitiesofEstonianRural Network forSocialFarming - STUDY-TRIP (2)

  12. ActivitiesofEstonianRural Network forSocialFarming - STUDY-TRIP (3) 10-13 April 2012 - thematic study-trip about social farming to South-Finland Organized by Estonian Rural Network in cooperation with Finnish Rural Network and Finnish Green Care Participants: Central Association of Estonian Farmers, Ministry ofAgriculture, Ministry of Social Affairs, Estonian, Unemployment InsuranceFund, Estonian Agricultural Registers and Information Board, Estonian Chamber of Disabled People, farmers. Visited different social farming organizations: Ravuri Farm, Hausjärven Family Home, Ylitalon Alpakat Farm, Pitkäniemen Hospital etc.

  13. ActivitiesofEstonianRural Network forSocialFarming - STUDY-TRIP (4)

  14. ActivitiesofEstonianRural Network forSocialFarming - SURVEY December 2011 - Mini-Survey “Social farming in Estonia 2011” Main purpose was to find out the current state, problems and possible solutions of social farming in Estonia Participants: farmers, NGOs, local governments The results showed that people do not know much about social farming and its´ opportunities.

  15. ActivitiesofEstonianRural Network forSocialFarming Social farming web page on www.maainfo.ee where we collect different materials (articles, events, surveys etc.)

  16. ActivitiesofEstonianRural Network forSocialFarming Future plans: 28-29 November 2012 Social farming theme day with study-visit to Estonia. 2013 …- Seminars and study visit to some EU country

  17. Leader and SocialFarming Leader programme offers great opportunity to support social farming activities. Because it allows different investments related to disabled people. For example in Estonia Leader programme has supported projects like: Furnishing working places for disabled people Bulding parking spaces and pavements for horse therapy centre Trainings Bulding entrances for wheelchairs

  18. Thank You! Meeri Klooren meeri@maainfo.ee www.maainfo.ee

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