Consulting
Especially in the areas of agricultural policy, climate protection and regional development, the current legal and promotional framework conditions are constantly changing. We advise state governments on rural development programmes, and also advise LEADER regions and large protected areas on the development of future-oriented approaches to action. At the project level, we provide project consulting and development, funding consulting and innovation service for European innovation partnerships.
Our clients are state ministries, local authorities and regional organisations.
Projects in the thematic field
Sustainability and resilience
Globally Sustainable Municipality Palatinate

The project "Globally Sustainable Community (GNK)" Palatinate supports municipalities in the Palatinate Forest in the local implementation of the 17 SDGs of the Agenda 2030. In this context, the IfLS Consulting and Projects in a cooperation with the...
Details »Periodic review of the Biosphere Berchtesgadener Land

Every ten years, UNESCO reviews whether their recognised biosphere reserves may also retain their designation. The biosphere region Berchtesgadener Land was recognised as a biosphere reserve by UNESCO in 1990, successfully passed the first periodic...
Details »SDG model region for a sustainable Rhineland-Palatinate

With the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the international community of states agreed on global sustainability goals. Building on this, biosphere reserves (BR) have committed themselves in the Lima Action Plan to make their own, concrete...
Details »Agricultural policy
Common Agricultural Policy (CAP): Cross Compliance and advancement of agri-environmental schemes
The integration of nature and environment issues constitutes a focal point within the frame-work of agricultural policy’s reorientation. On the one hand, Council Regulation (EC) 1782/2003 establishing common rules for direct support schemes and...
Details »Regional development
Final evaluation of the LEADER process in the LEADER region Oben an der Volme

In the LEADER region Oben an der Volme, the final evaluation of the 2014-2022 funding period is due, as required by the state.
In this context, IfLS Consulting and Projects is supporting the sponsoring association of the regional development of Oben...
Details »Prüfung und Bewertung der Lokalen Entwicklungsstrategien (LES) zur Auswahl von LEADER/CLLD - Regionen im Land Sachsen-Anhalt in der Förderperiode 2021-2027

Zur Anerkennung als LEADER-Region durchlaufen die Gebietskulissen in Sachsen-Anhalt ein Auswahlverfahren. Mit dessen begleitender Unterstützung ist die IfLS Beratung und Projekte GmbH beauftragt worden. Im Einzelnen umfasst der Auftrag die folgenden...
Details »Final evaluation of the LEADER process in the LEADER region Ortenau

The LEADER region Ortenau is facing the end of the 2014-2017 funding period. The current funding period will be extended with the two-year transition phase in 2021 and 2022. Nevertheless, effects and successes of the current LEADER funding are to be...
Details »Supporting LEADER implementation in Georgia – EMBRACE Tsalka

The project “EMBRACE Tsalka” aims to reduce rural poverty and improve living conditions in Tsalka municipality, Georgia, through the LEADER approach. It addresses economic, social, and environmental concerns by improving agricultural competitiveness,...
Details »Large-scale protected areas and cultural landscape
Periodic review of the UNESCO Biosphere Reserve Rhön

The UNESCO Biosphere Reserve Rhön was recognised by UNESCO in 1991 as a transnational biosphere reserve in Bavaria, Hesse and Thuringia, has already successfully passed two periodic reviews (2003 and 2013) and is now undergoing the third evaluation...
Details »Globally Sustainable Municipality Palatinate

The project "Globally Sustainable Community (GNK)" Palatinate supports municipalities in the Palatinate Forest in the local implementation of the 17 SDGs of the Agenda 2030. In this context, the IfLS Consulting and Projects in a cooperation with the...
Details »ESD platform of the Bergstrasse-Odenwald Geo-Nature Park
IfLS Consulting and Projects supports the UNESCO Global Geopark and nature park Bergstrasse-Odenwald in the initial development of its new ESD platform.
In 2022, the geo- and nature park developed a strategic didactic concept "Education for a...
Details »Periodic review of the Biosphere Berchtesgadener Land

Every ten years, UNESCO reviews whether their recognised biosphere reserves may also retain their designation. The biosphere region Berchtesgadener Land was recognised as a biosphere reserve by UNESCO in 1990, successfully passed the first periodic...
Details »International cooperation
Supporting LEADER implementation in Georgia – EMBRACE Tsalka

The project “EMBRACE Tsalka” aims to reduce rural poverty and improve living conditions in Tsalka municipality, Georgia, through the LEADER approach. It addresses economic, social, and environmental concerns by improving agricultural competitiveness,...
Details »Regional and structural policy in South Africa. Country study: Analysis of the structural and regional development strategies and visions of the nine provinces
The desk study was linked to the overall aim of the constitutional development process in South Africa (RSA) and to policies aimed at decreasing inter and intra-regional disparities and at promoting socially and economically balanced development....
Details »Sustainable land use
Short Study on the Situation of Grasslands in Germany

In order to obtain an overview of the situation of grasslands in Germany, the Institute for Rural Development Research (IfLS) currently works on a short study commissioned by the German Wildlife Foundation. The study is meant to promote the discourse...
Details »Knowledge and innovation
Supervision and evaluation of three funding calls "European Innovation Partnership Agricultural Productivity and Sustainability (EIP-Agri)"

Supervision and evaluation of three funding calls "European Innovation Partnership Agricultural Productivity and Sustainability (EIP-Agri)" of the Regional Managing Authority Rhineland-Palatinate within the framework of the German CAP Strategic Plan...
Details »Supervision and evaluation of the 4th funding call "The agricultural European Innovation Partnership (EIP-Agri)" of the EAFRD Managing Authority Rhineland-Palatinate

The state of Rhineland-Palatinate is taking up the new funding opportunities created by the EU for the European Innovation Partnership (EIP-Agri) in the EAFRD development programme "Environmental measures, rural development, agriculture, food" (EPLR...
Details »Support for "European Innovation Partnerships on Agricultural Productivity and Sustainability (EIP-Agri)" Rhineland-Palatinate
The state of Rhineland-Palatinate is taking up the new funding opportunities created by the EU under the European Innovation Partnership (EIP-Agri) in the rural development programme "Environmental Measures, Rural Development, Agriculture, Food"...
Details »Support for "European Innovation Partnerships on Agricultural Productivity and Sustainability (EIP-Agri)" Rhineland-Palatinate

The state of Rhineland-Palatinate is taking up the new funding opportunities created by the EU under the European Innovation Partnership (EIP-Agri) in the rural development programme "Environmental Measures, Rural Development, Agriculture, Food"...
Details »Socio-economics of farm businesses
Consulting on citizen financing models for the planned citizen vineyard Obernhof-Weinähr

The local communities of Obernhof and Weinähr in Rhineland-Palatinate want to establish a citizen vineyard in the course of a land consolidation within the LEADER project, which will be cultivated both organically (Weinähr) and conventionally...
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