Welcome to LEADER Stories!

We take you out into the five LEADER regions, to where people are shaping rural areas. We meet project organisers, look over their shoulders, visit places that have developed with the support of LEADER and tell you how a good idea became a sustainable project.

In our LEADER Stories, we take you to projects that strengthen the community, protect nature and the environment, create new offerings or preserve regional specialities in an original way. We show success stories, but also paths that are not always straight. We explore places that you might never have discovered yourself - and which now offer a better quality of life thanks to LEADER.

This blog is our view into the regions: personal, curious and close to what moves people with their courage to try something new.

Our blogger

Hello, my name is Martine Hemmer. I have been active in the media and public relations for 25 years. Today, I'm in charge of communications for the five Luxembourg LEADER regions.

For me, writing means looking closely, listening attentively and uncovering the core of a story. As a trained journalist, I am interested in the unagitated, the honest: the subtle observations that tell a lot and the encounters that have a long-lasting effect. I like texts that create closeness without imposing themselves and portraits that allow people to speak in their own voice.

Travelling through the LEADER regions, I find material for just such stories: Projects that grow from a simple idea into something amazing, people who pull together to move their region forward.

Come along and experience how LEADER is positively changing rural areas. Let us inspire you!

Note: German (DE) is the original language; the French (FR) and English (EN) versions were generated with the help of AI.