LAG KEM: call for proposals 2026

Research

What?

The Lokale Actiegroep Kempen (LAG KEM) launched a call for projects under the LEADER grant programme.

LEADER, stands for Liaison Entre Actions de Développement de l'Économie Rurale and its main objective is to to support rural areas in finding innovative solutions to challenges in rural areas. In Limburg, for the 2023-2027 programme period, four LEADER areas have been demarcated: Kempen, Maasland, Haspengouw Zuidoost and Haspengouw Zuidwest.

The LAG KEM is making available a budget of n € 641.396,56 in LEADER support for this call, with no distribution of the available budget among priorities or objectives.

This project call applies to priorities 1 and 3 and corresponding objectives of the Local Development Strategy of the LAG KEM:

Priority 1: Innovative and sustainable local agricultural production and marketing, and valorisation of biomass residues

• Objective 1.1: Making farming practices more sustainable and diversified
• Objective 1.2: Local energy production and networks

Priority 3: Biodiversity and landscape quality

• Objective 3.1: Strengthen and open up the local cultural landscapes
• Objective 3.2: Initiatives around water infiltration, buffering and quality

Within the project call, both investment and service projects of the following project types are eligible:

• Regular project
• Micro project
• Dome project

Approved projects can start on 1 January 2026 at the earliest and can run until 30 June 2028 at the latest.

Application?

Project applications must be submitted through the VLM's rural counter by 12 noon on 30 June 2025.

The maximum grant rate for projects is 65%, with a maximum of €200,000 in co-financing. Promoters and co-promoters are jointly responsible for the remaining amount of the project costs (minimum 35%), of which at least 15% of the project cost should come from the promoter and/or the co-promoters themselves.

More information?

You can find the  ‘Lokale Ontwikkelingsstrategie LEADER Kempen 2023-2027', the project call and the ‘Draaiboek van de LAG KEM’ here.

Handboek LEADER 2023 - 2027

Please always contact research@uhasselt.be if you want to apply.

Deadline

30.06.2025

Contact Hasselt University?

E-mail sarah.szyr@uhasselt.be

Tel. +3211269052