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PROJECTS

On this page the secretariat will present a short summary of all approved projects. If the projects have their own homepage, there will be a link to it.

Path system in Bjergsted municipality. 

Quality of life in clubs and associations. 

Sustainable processing of industrial metal shreds and other metal waste. 

Sustainable nature tourism for Odsherred 

Internet newspaper for Odsherred. 

Innovative workshops for promoting new ideas and developing new partnerships and networks. 

Rescue system for individual persons from high buildings. 

Coordinated development of overnight accommodations and path systems in the LEADER+ area. 

The heath by the school. The school by the heath. 

Long house from Borneo. 

Local innovative communications centers in Odsherred. 

Sustainable extraction of cypress oil for cosmetic production. 

An idea seminar about development and renewal in the region’s rural areas. 

The Odsherred House. 

Odsherred’s Chamber Music Festival in new surroundings and framework. 

Outdoornet Northwest. 

Crafts market at the harbour in Nykoebing Zealand. 

Pakhuset – the region’s exhibition hall.

DesignNet West Zealand – a regional design competence group. 

Musical mirror of the Pakhuset stage. 

InternetTV for Odsherred. 

Nature registration in Odsherred. 

Network development among entrepreneurs in Odsherred. 

National and international coorperation, phase 1. 

Theatrical and cultural meeting in the schools. 

Development of competence and competition in small businesses through e-learning.

Network development concerning a generation shift.

Path system in Bjergsted municipality.

The project is to establish an overall path system in the municipality, so that citizens and tourists interested in nature and outdoor life can move around on foot throughout the municipality to all available and interesting sites and to camping grounds, harbours, trout lakes, etc. The path system is to connect with existing regional path systems that touch the municipality boundary.

The project is divided into two phases. Phase 1 is the mapping out and agreement making phase. Phase 2 is the establishment and visibility making phase. A new system of signs and a folder will help make the path system a local and regional possibility, not only for local inhabitants, but also for tourists who wish to visit this area.

In relation to the tourists, two simple overnight accommodations with shelters and a bird watching tower at Saltbaekvig are being established. Information boards are being set up at different locations in the municipality with information about the area’s history, geography, geology and nature.

Grant recipient: The Green Council in Bjergsted, Hoejvangen 9, 4470 Sveboelle.

Contact person: Dieter Steffen.

Telephone: 59 29 82 11                        E-mail: ggbjergsted@image.dk

Theme: Sustainable use of natural and cultural resources.

Quality of life in clubs and associations.

The project is a preliminary project that is to clarify and demonstrate how the life of the clubs and associations in Dragsholm municipality can contribute to the development of a better environment and a higher quality of life in the municipality. The preliminary project, through use of interviews/questionnaires/ demonstration of tools, etc. and use of representatives from local clubs and associations, will survey interests and potentials and illustrate the level of consciousness about the environment and the quality of life in the clubs and associations in general, which initiatives there is a need and interest in, which problems exist and which form future efforts should take.

The preliminary project will be headed by a person the clubs and associations have chosen as a Green Guide and his backing up group, and will result in a report with a survey of the clubs’ and associations’ interests in environmental work and quality of life, an evaluation of existing and lacking tools and work forms and a systematic summary of ideas, wishes, needs and visions on the subject.

The preliminary project is the first step on the way to a possible long-term effort in the life of clubs and associations to develop a better environment and higher quality of life in the LEADER+ area.

Telephone: 57 86 20 10                          E-mail: gron.guide@pc.dk

Sustainable processing of industrial metal shreds and other metal waste.

The project is to establish a plant for processing industrial metal shreds and other metal waste. This involves a newly developed magnetic sorting plant that, compared to existing liquid sorting plants, will be capable of reducing pollution and costs of sorting considerably. The plant is the first of its kind in Denmark.

When the plant has been established and is tested through, it will be run like a normal commercial business. It is expected that the business will become one of the larger of its kind in Denmark and, as such, will be able to create jobs for ten unskilled workers, especially women.

Grant recipient: Al-Ex Recycling A/S, Vindehelsingevej 21, 4281 Goerlev.

Telephone: 58 85 98 13                            E-mail: al-ex@mail.dk
Telefax: 58 85 98 27

Sustainable nature tourism in Odsherred.

The project will develop a plan of action for sustainable nature tourism and new, sustainable tourist products and activities in the municipalities of Bjergsted, Dragsholm, Nykoebing-Roervig and Trundholm.

The project will, beyond coordination of the area, result in the following new products and activities: establishment and promotion of a Lammefjord’s Route, development and promotion of coast fishing tourism, development of information material about the area’s nature with emphasis on an integration of history, geology and fauna, an integration of sustainable themes in existing marketing material, development of the area’s over all path network and promotion of and making visible local ecological producers and farm shops.

The project will be made in close cooperation with the area’s tourist business and interest organizations.

Telephone: 59 65 08 05                            E-mail: ot@odsherred.com
Telefax: 59 65 18 05

Internet newspaper for Odsherred.

The project will establish a local newspaper for Odsherred on the Internet. The newspaper will be updated with news four times a day. The newspaper is free for users, and the income from advertisement will finance the working expenses.

The newspaper, through news, association news, promotion of cultural events and sport arrangements, will help to strengthen Odsherred’s identity and to tie the area’s many summer residents and holidaymakers closer to the area.

The newspaper can be found at the address www.odsherredddirekte.dk

Telephone: 59 30 53 32                            E-mail: red@odsherreddirekte.dk

Innovative workshops for promoting new ideas and developing new partnerships and networks.

The project will create a basis for implementing eight innovative workshops, which are to be offered to interested groups in the LEADER+ area.

The innovative workshop is an effective tool for promoting new ideas and developing new partnerships and networks. The workshop is to be seen as a forerunner for one or more fully developed projects.

See more about the innovative workshops here.

Telephone: 59 93 10 65                            E-mail: mail@levende-lokalsamfund.dk
Telefax: 59 93 10 67

Rescue system for individual persons from high buildings.

This involves a rescue system for evacuation of people from high apartment and office buildings. Patent has been applied for and the rescue system is being tested and developed further with the aim of type approvement in accordance with international demands.

Hereafter, the rescue system will be produced by a number of sub-contractors in the region, with the exception of the slide bar that will be made by Stelform in Fredericia.

The project has received economic support for marketing, contact work, and patent maintenance of the rescue system in two selected test markets, England and Germany.

It is expected that after the test marketing, the rescue system will be able to be run as a normal commercial business and, as such, will create new jobs for more than five new workers with the sub-contractors.

Telephone: 59 59 60 72                             E-mail: ga.tec@get2net.dk
Telefax: 59 59 60 79

Coordinated development of overnight accommodations and path systems in the LEADER+ area.

Through preliminary work with surveying and coordinating planned and existing path systems and overnight accommodations in the LEADER+ area, the project will create a basis for development of a coherent system of path systems and overnight accommodations in the region.

The work will take place in cooperation with other regional actors, the Council for Outdoor Life in West Zealand’s County, the Danish Gymnastic and Athletic Association, Odsherred’s Tourist Council, the Nature School for Odsherred, etc.

Telephone: 59 26 24 04                             E-mail: steffen@heltude.dk

The heath by the school. The school by the heath.

The project will develop an outdoor space with a long line of possibilities for activities and experiences. The outdoor space will be from Herrestrup Heath up to Grevinge Central School, and as such, will take on the character of the heath. It is a place with strong energies, of danger, of fascination, and a place filled with life and thoughts, stories, experiences and mystery. The space will be the natural meeting point for all ages and groups in the local community. It will be a social and cultural plus for the local community.

The project will be made in cooperation with local institutions and associations, schools, nursery schools, school recreation centers, youth clubs, athletic clubs, etc. In connection with establishment of the project, an extensive voluntary contribution is being counted on.

Telephone: 59 68 98 58                              E-mail: mro@dragsholm.dk

Long house from Borneo.

On the basis of the growing demands for zoological gardens, the project will result in the building of a long house from Borneo.

The long house will be the animal park’s home for work with presentations, promotion, animal husbandry and preservation work with small and medium-sized monkies, as well as the animal park’s work with the school service, exhibitions and lectures.

The project has received economic support for planning and marketing in relation to authorities, funds, etc.

Telefax: Sustainable use of natural and cultural resources.

Local innovative communications centers in Odsherred.

The project will lead to the establishment of local, innovative communications centers in each of the three Odsherred municipalities. They will include local radio production, multi-media production, information and media workshops, media teaching, etc.

It is starting out with the establishment of local radio production in the Vig Cinema building in Trundholm municipality, under the control of a new local radio association for Trundholm municipality.

The running of the local radio production will be based on the legislation for local radio production.

Telephone: 59 91 96 74                               E-mail: swesth@radionr.dk
Telefax: 59 91 88 97

Theme: Improvement of the quality of life in the rural areas.

Sustainable extraction of cypress oil for cosmetic production.

The project will create a basis in Denmark for an up-to-now unknown production of cypress oil for cosmetic production. It involves oil that has a curative effect on eczema. The water leftover from production can be used for removing lice from Norwegian fir trees. And the leftover dry material can be used as an abrasive compound in peeling creams. The production will be based on ecologically grown cypress trees.

In the starting phase, the production will take place at the firm Bioraf in Aakirkeby, before being transferred to Jyderup.

After production is established, it will be driven as a normal commercial business and will be part of creating several new work places.

Telephone: 59 27 83 50                                E-mail: jyderup-skov@pda.dk
Telefax: 59 27 84 50

Theme: Use of new know how and new technologies.

An idea seminar about development and renewal in the region’s rural areas.

This is the LEADER+ LAG-group’s (Local Action Group) annual idea seminar.

The seminar has its starting point in the approved projects, and through use of the innovative workshop’s tools, is to be part of creating new networks and new project ideas.

The idea seminar should be part of setting the course for the program in the future.

Telephone: 59 93 10 65                                E-mail: karsten@odsherred.dk
Telefax: 59 93 10 67

Theme: Improvement of the quality of living in the rural areas.

The Odsherred House.

The project will help to develop an environment friendly holiday house and will bring together groups of tradesmen who can carry out the detailed planning and building of the house.

The house, in both architectural design and choice of materials, is to reflect local building tradition and is to have an "artistic touch" with light, easy and environment friendly solutions. It should, without problem, be able to be expanded through budding reproduction and renewed with regard to making a year-round house with isolation and the necessary technical facilities.

The project is divided into three phases. Phase 1 is the idea development phase with laying down the principles regarding form, strength and sustainability. Phase 2 is the anchoring phase with the forming of groups of tradesmen to build the house. And phase 3 is the implementation phase with establishment of a permanent exhibition and the building of holiday houses.

The given economic support relates to the work in Phase 2 of the project.

Odsherred’s Chamber Music Festival in new surroundings and framework.

In 2003 Odsherred’s Chamber Music Festival moves to new surroundings in Anneberg Park at Isefjord outside Nykoebing Zealand. And in connection with this the festival will re-emerge in a renewed and rejuvenated form.

The project will help to develop two new, recurring activities – an outdoor opera and a children’s chamber music festival – and will help to make these events visible to a wider audience than before.

The chamber music festival will, as before, maintain a high international level and will give priority to the informal social contact between the performing artists and the audience that the festival is famous for.

Telephone: 59 91 00 11                                E-mail: stoffers@nyka.dk
Mobile: 40 25 45 11

Website: www.kammermusik.dk

Theme: Sustainable use of natural and cultural resources.

Outdoornet Northwest.

The project will result in a coordinated path system for Northwest Zealand with a network of overnight accommodations with shelter facilities.

There are planned 18 overnight accommodation facilities spread equally over the area from Reersoe in the south to Anneberg and Odden in the north. The path systems and overnight accommodation facilities are expected to be used by youth and scout groups, outdoor folk, camping schools and green tourists from both inside and outside Denmark.

The project will be marketed through a homepage, brochures and announcements of activities at and around the paths and accommodations.

When the Outdoornet Northwest is established, running will be self-financed in a cooperation between the applicants and Odsherred’s Tourist Office.

Crafts market at the harbour in Nykoebing Zealand.

The project will establish an "oven house" for ceramics, the first phase in the establishment of a center for crafts with living workshops and facilities for exhibition and sale of the crafts from the workshops.

In this phase, the oven house will function as a base for an annually recurring indoor and outdoor market with participation of invited craftsmen.

It is expected that the following phases of establishing the center will take place with economic support from other sources.

Pakhuset – the region’s exhibition hall.

The art association Pakhuset, in an attempt to assure the development of activities in Pakhuset in Nykoebing Zealand, has decided to develop a systematic sale of art in the coming three years. Sale will not only take place at the exhibitions, but also through actively seeking contact with art buyers, private collectors, art circles, art associations, institutions and businesses.

The planned development of the sale of art will help to create the basis for a renewal of the existing level of activity and for a development of new activities that exhibition halls can offer nowadays.

This will contribute to the strengthening of a population influx to the area, tourism and the renewal of the area’s own cultural life.

DesignNet West Zealand – a regional design competence group.

The newly established network of professionally active designers, DesignNet West Zealand, will use two theme days and a method of direct contact to strengthen the interest in the use of designers in local businesses, municipalities, institutions and organizations.

The project is to be seen as the first step in the work of creating an understanding for the use of design as a management tool and developing a design competence group in West Zealand.

The project is also to be seen as a search for project ideas and as a development of project cooperation among the region’s actors. It is a search where the design network’s knowledge and competence can be part of the development of sustainable local communities.

Musical mirror of the Pakhuset stage.

The project will create a basis for an on-going documentation of the music life in Pakhuset in Nykoebing Zealand.

After acquisition of editing equipment and production of a CD within the framework of the project, it is expected that the future documentation will be self-financing through the income earned from the sale of CDs.

Internet TV for Odsherred.

The project will establish a new media business with the transmission of local TV over the Internet. The transmission will take place by means of the so-called streaming technology.

This is a pronounced pilot project for testing out a new media in the local community. After the test period during the project, it is expected that the business can be continued in Odsherred and can be established other places in the country, financed with the help of a user fee, video production and advertisements.

The project was started with the first demonstration programs on May 15^th, 2003 and can be seen at www.tv-odsherred.dk

Nature registration in Odsherred.

Through the registration of the details of nature by school children and summerhouse owners in Odsherred, the project will help to strengthen the understanding for the near-nature values in the region and, thereby, will help to protect and preserve these values in the future.

The work with registering the details of nature will take place in a cooperation between Odsherred’s Environmental Council, Odsherred’s Nature School, Odsherred’s Forest District and the voluntary green councils in the municipalities.

Network development among entrepreneurs in Odsherred.

The project will support the development of a network among newly established entrepreneurs in Odsherred.

The network will be established with assistance from a process consultant. When the network is established it will be possible for the entrepreneurs to discuss all possible subjects and to make use of the network for mutual exchange, idea and project development, sharing experiences, etc. Beyond this, the network will be used as a support group for entrepreneur and development activities.

The network will be supported through the establishment of a project secretariat and the publication of a profile magazine to make the entrepreneurs more visible. 

National and International coorperation, phase 1

Based on the local development plan and the experiences gained up until now, the LAG-group (Local Action Group) has decided to take part in national and international cooperation in the following four areas:

• development of a national network of local developmental environments for quality food products.
• development of an international network of developmental environments for culture and nature tourism.
• development of an international network of local developmental environments for entrepreneurship and business development.
• development of an international network of local developmental environments for sustainable development.

By means of survey, contact and development work, the project will create the basis for stipulation of a plan of action for the LEADER+ cooperation in the remaining part of the program period.

Theatrical and cultural meeting in the schools.

There is going to be a visit from a children’s theater group from Bolivia in 2004. The participants in the group are street children. Through their performances, they will express their reality to children in other countries.

The visit will be made to primary schools, free schools and continuation schools in the municipalities of Bjergsted, Goerlev, Hvidebaek and Tornved. It will take place in close cooperation with the schools, and the visit will be prepared for with an inspiration workshop for the teachers and theme teaching for the children.

The visit will be carried out in close cooperation with local cooperating partners, and a number of families in the area will provide for the group’s lodging and meals.

The objective of the visit is to create a wider understanding for and acceptance of cultures from other parts of the world.

Telephone: 59 26 29 36.                                    E-mail: gitte.jakobsen@private.dk

Theme: Improvement of the quality of life in the rural areas.

Development of competence and competition in small businesses through e-learning.

The project is a pilot project for testing the possibilities for development of competence and competition in small businesses in the LEADER+ area.

Through the use of existing, well-tested tools for development of competence and competition from traditional courses and from the new technology, the project will create an offer that is directed towards the area’s small businesses. The project will help to clarify questions in connection with the need for e-learning, the form and content of the offer and the organization in relation to small businesses. Afterwards, it is the intention that a greater sequence of events will be implemented on the basis of the experiences from the pilot project.

A backing up group will be established with representatives from the business council, business schools, labour market organizations, etc. The project will be evaluated by an external evaluator.

Telephone: 59 56 27 60.                                    E-mail: kaj-nielsen@post.tele.dk
Telefax: 59 56 27 27.

Theme: Improvement of the quality of life in the rural areas.

Sound Park at Odsherred’s Nature School.

The project will create a permanent but changing sound park on the grounds of Odsherred’s Nature School at Anneberg south of Nykoebing, Zealand. The park will be open for the public, local citizens and guests at the nature school and the accompanying youth hostel.

The park will be supplied with a basic selection of instruments primarily made of natural materials that the users can make direct use of, with a workshop for the construction of instruments that the users can make themselves, with well-chosen tableaux of sounds that can inspire the users, and simple compositions that the users can play themselves. The purpose is to strengthen the senses and creativity of young and old alike.

The sound park will be made and maintained and further developed in a cooperation between The Music School of Nykoebing-Roervig and Trundholm and Odsherred’s Nature School.

Telephone: 59 91 20 04                                       E-mail: nlb@nrk.dk

Microbrewery at Dragsholm Castle.

The project will establish a microbrewery for the production of a local beer of the highest quality. The beer will be produced according to old brewing traditions and will be sold from the keg, in bottles and in gift boxes at the castle and at selected places in Odsherred.

The brewery will be installed in the castle’s former stable. The brewing will be able to be followed on location and the beer will be able to be enjoyed in a taproom/café set in the atmosphere of some of the stable’s former horse stalls.

When the brewery is established and brought into operation, it will be run like a normal commercial business as one of the castle’s attractions. It is expected that the business will attract a growing number of guests to the castle and will create new jobs for a minimum of five persons.

Telephone: 59 65 33 00                             E-mail: dragsholm@dragsholm-slot.dk

National and international cooperation, phase 2.

Based on the local development plan and the experiences gained up until now, the LAG-group has decided to take part in national and international cooperation in the following four areas:

• development of a national network of local developmental environments for quality food products.
• development of an international network of local developmental environments for culture and nature tourism.
• development of an international network of local developmental environments for
  entrepreneurship and business development.
• development of an international network of local developmental environments for
  sustainable development.

By means of survey, contact and development work, the project will result in regional networks in these four areas and lead to a plan of action for cooperation.

Telephone: 59 93 10 65                                 E-mail: karsten@odsherred.dk

Visitors’ Center for nature and history in the Aamose region.

The project will establish an information center at Fugledegaard on Tissoe Lake. The center will provide information about the region’s special culture and nature for the local population and tourists. Fugledegaard, which is located where the Halleby River runs out of Tissoe Lake, is the site of a nationally recognized important Viking age settlement with Denmark’s largest chieftain’s domicile. Together with the Hvide-lineage’s fortified chieftain domicile Hallenslevlund on the other side of the river, the area had been a regional center of power for a five hundred year period from the Viking age up through the early middle ages.

Economic support for the establishment of an exhibition building will be applied for. The exhibition will be an introduction to the Viking age settlement, which is protected, and which will eventually be brought to life with a reconstruction of the Viking age buildings and boats and with a presentation of daily life in the Viking age.

The information center will inspire trips through the surrounding landscape – throughout the Aamose region with its unique flora and fauna, to Denmark’s oldest settlements from the stone-age, to the moraines near Bjergsted and the moorland plain out at Saltbaek Vig , to the Viking age Traelleborg near Slagelse, etc.

Telephone: 59 52 04 00                                  E-mail: hv@hvidebaek.dk

Cultivation of mussels in open waters in Odsherred.

The project will test a newly developed breeding plant and a new method of breeding mussels with the future intention of establishing a mussel production along the coasts in Odsherred.

The project will be carried out in cooperation with a local developmental group of potential mussel cultivators, Odsherred’s Business Council, Hoejby Farm and Odsherred’s Labour Exchange Center with the latter functioning as coordinator.

It is expected that the project can document an important effective improvement of the breeding methods (2-3 times) and that the project will be the starting point for a mussel cultivation that will provide lasting employment for up to 40-50 unskilled workers.

Telephone: 70 42 42 20                                   E-mail: los65@trundholm.dk

Life in the local debate.

The project is a one-week evening folk high school course at Vallekilde Folk High School, where the citizens in the LEADER+ area are invited to lectures, debates, study groups and popular folk meetings.

The project will place the citizens at the center of the development of the region and will equip them with knowledge and insight, so that they are better able to participate actively in the debate about, among other things, the development of the region’s rural areas.

A report will be made about the results of the evening course at the folk high school.

The report will be made available to the public.

Telephone: 59 65 60 45                                    E-mail: vallekilde@vallekilde.dk

Nature education. Practice and new development.

The project will describe and further develop nature education, which is practiced in a local nature nursery school. Nature guide Joergen Stolz and outdoor guide Steffen Holberg will follow the nursery school’s nature and outdoor activities and give new ideas for trying out in practice. The allocation between nature and outdoor activities will be 1 to 2 divided evenly throughout the year. Each sequence of events will be described and evaluated.

It is the intention that the experiences from this development work will be made available for all the nursery schools in the LEADER+ area. It is expected that this can happen without expense to the project by means of a handbook on new nature education.

Telephone: 59 26 24 04.                                  E-mail: steffen@heltude.dk

Contact point for teaching in innovation and entrepreneurship in the schools.

Kalundborg Region’s Production School Saltoftevaenge has planned to establish a support and contact point for making networks and for the development of teaching in the schools about innovation, entrepreneurship and self-will/self-dependence culture in the LEADER+ area.

The support and contact point is an off-shoot of the Club for Production Development, which for more than 15 years has had residence at the school, and the school’s exhibition hall EXPO-DO, which came into existence in cooperation with the club being the locus for newly developed products in the circle around the club.

The new contact point will help to establish a basis for strengthening the teaching in innovation and entrepreneurship in the primary school and at the secondary level. This will, in the long term, help to strengthen sustainability in the LEADER+ area.

In the beginning, the running of the contact point is expected to take place through a combination of research funds and own contribution.

Telephone: 59 29 38 33.                                      E-mail: nj@k-p-s.dk

Handicap-friendly bathing pier at Ugerloese Beach.

The project will establish a handicap-friendly bathing pier with the possibility for also landing small boats. With the establishment of the pier, the possibility is opened for a combination of sailing, primitive overnighting in shelters near the pier and other shelters in the municipality and surrounding area, hereunder Fugledegaard.

The project will help strengthen the development of sustainable tourism in a rural area that does not have obvious natural tourist goals or large, commercial tourist attractions.

The pier will be built as a 50 meter long bathing pier with mooring possibilities on a pontoon at the end of the pier. The pier will be built extra wide and with a secure foundation on the foreshore out of consideration for the handicap-users.

Telephone: 59 52 04 00                                        E-mail: lpd@hvidebaek.dk

Development projects in Northwest Zealand.

The project will pass on the experiences gained from the LEADER+ program’s first year.

This will take place through the publication of a booklet presenting "the good projects". The purpose of the booklet is to inspire other locally engaged persons and to make the program visible in the local area.

The booklet will be made in cooperation between the projects and the LEADER+ secretariat. The presentation will take the form of interviews and the use of good picture material.

The booklet will be distributed free of charge to interested persons by the area’s municipalities, libraries, culture centers, etc. The booklet will also be able to be ordered free of charge from the LEADER+ secretariat.

Telephone: 59 93 10 65.                                        E-mail: karsten@odsherred.dk

Network development around a generation change.

Odsherred’s Business Council, through the publication of a brochure about a generation change and the establishment of a network group of those businesses going through a generation change, will help that a future problem concerning a generation change in small and medium size businesses in Odsherred can be avoided.

The brochure will be distributed to all members of the business council and will be sent to all business owners who turn 50 years old. The distribution will take place in cooperation with the auditors residing in Odsherred.

The network group will be composed of business owners who have had a generation change, that is to say, young business owners who have taken over or purchased an existing business. Through the working process in the group, the business council will work for a higher level of awareness about generation change.

Telephone: 59 65 08 05.                                         E-mail: oer@mail.tele.dk