Abandoned property in the town centre is a crucial issue in the municipalities of Lower Austria. New buildings are constructed in the village outskirts, but the town centre is confronted with more and more out-migration. The municipalities are usually perceived as unattractive and are therefore hardly in line for business premises or new living space for people. Abandoned property also has a negative impact on the local residents.

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funding organization: LF3
year of implementation: 2016-2017
category: common weal
funding priority: vitalization and design of town centres

This project is an attempt to raise the local residents’ awareness of regional and seasonal groceries and offers the chance to discuss the topic and deal with it in an active way. This way the urban space of living can put a focus on related educational and culinary related aspects. The process of growth and harvesting as well as taste and vitality become directly tangible. For this purpose various areas ranging from Hollabrunn’s main square to the Kellergassen are being cultivated and signposted.

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funding organization: LF3
year of implementation: 2016
category: natural resources
funding priority: raising awareness and biodiversity

The aim of this project is to create an online platform for ideas concerning the further development of our region. Everybody has the chance to add their ideas online. To create a basic pool of ideas it is planned to hold workshops in schools of the region. Only then the pool of ideas will be launched. As a follow up workshops for implementing the collected ideas are planned.

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www.weinviertler-ideenpool.at

funding organization: EU + LF3
year of implementation: 2016-2019
category: life quality
funding priority: common weal

The festival Retz has been taking place for 13 years now in co-operation with the music festival Znojmo. During the summer season this event offers art at the highest stage in the Weinviertel, including church operas, theatre performances, literature events and reading as well as concerts. By offering more than 40 performances on this side and across the Austrian-Czech border it has developed into one of the main attractions of the year within the cultural area of Lower Austria and Moravia and has become highly artistically appreciated by both regions.
To strengthen the residents’ identification with the festival and to counteract the latent vacancy in the town centre, the association ‘Kellermuseum Retz’, Weinquartier Retz and Probus (a wine growers’ initiative of the Generali group) is planning a LEADER project covering the topic ‘Vitalising the town centre in co-operation with the festival Retz’.

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funding organization: LF3
year of implementation: 2017
category: common weal
funding priority: vitalization and designing of town centres

In the course of the international youth exchange programme, young people from Pulkautal have the chance to get to know the host country, cultures, institutions, lifestyle and education in families and above all young people from other nations

This year’s international youth camp takes place in Seefeld-Kadholz. Around 120 children between 10 and 15 years of age from interested municipalities in Romania, Hungary, Czech Republic and Austria (Pulkautal) are participating.

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funding organization: LF3
year of implementation: 2017
category: education
funding priority: common weal