The support can, for example, be used to increase competence in companies, develop existing products/services, diversify companies, create new or develop existing collaborations/company networks or increase service in rural areas.
This can be done through, for example, courses/training, study visits, meetings/workshops, development of prototypes, implementation of tests or consultancy work in the form of, among other things, surveys, analyses or strategy work.
The support may not be used for primary production or regular operations – it must be used for new initiatives focused on social, economic and/or ecological sustainability.
The project must be implemented in collaboration with at least two other actors. The benefits accrue primarily to the project-owning companies and partners, but it must also have some form of positive effect for one or more local rural areas in the sense of the producer.
There is a total of 600,000 kronor to be distributed within the call. A company can be granted between 40 and 70% of budgeted costs in a project – up to a support amount of max 200,000 kronor.
Is your rural business interested in applying for support within the call? Then start by reading information sheet and submit a checklist!
Read more and download information sheet and checklist HERE!
Times for checklist, application and prioritization
- Submit checklist to Leader Gute no later than September 15, 2025. You will receive feedback from our office well in advance before the application must be made via the Swedish Board of Agriculture's E-service no later than October 13, 2025.
- Then Leader Gute's board will decide on the prioritization of received applications November 27, 2025.
- Thereafter, the Swedish Board of Agriculture makes a decision.