The Association for support of economic development-Local action group-Kochani has been legally registered in 2011. It has been formed under LEADER + programme rules and its founding participants are representatives from public, business and NGO sector in municipality of Kochani. Its mission is to support the economic development in the municipality of Kochani in all possible ways that might emerge as a result of the possibilities offered at the area of donor organizations, institutions as well as business sector. As the LEADER + programme has not been fully established in Republic of Macedonia the Association continues working according its Statute, vision, mission and goals. It has 24 members, which are active in the Association and work in different areas and levels during the project application process. There are no regular paid staff in the association, and for each project we choose a team according to hers/his competences. The Association has conducted the following projects: - “Social marketing champagne for raising the awareness among youth about energy efficiency”, financed by UNDP, municipality of Kochani and municipality of Probishtip. - “Solar electric and heat energy to reduced CO2 from kindergarten”, financed by GEF PMG Macedonia and municipality of Kochani. - “Presenting the municipality of Kochani at the AGROFUD fair in Skopje, Eco-ethno Macedonia Manifestation”, financed by municipality of Kochani. - The Association has conducted four seminars entitled as “Improvement of the work of the Public utility enterprises in Macedonia” with a goal to present to the Directors of the Public utility enterprises in Macedonia a new, better ways important for their work and new and better products available in our country. Under ERASMUS+ programme we conducted the project “We grow up with eco resources” from September 2015 until December 2017. This project is partnership between Bulgaria and Macedonia. Another Erasmus+ programme project was the project with title “Health Y” and it is a partnership of six countries, namely Bulgaria, Macedonia, Romania, Latvia, Slovakia and Poland. This project was conducted in June 2016. The ongoing projects under ERAZMUS+ Program are: “Augmented Reality Education Module - Development and implementation of innovative ICT - based educational tool in STEM orientated school subjects"- Acronym-AR EDU. It is a partnership between Macedonia, Bulgaria and Croatia. It is going to be implemented from 01.11.2018 to 31.10.2020. "Eco gardens in our kindergartens" Acronym -ECO KIDS, a partnership between Macedonia, Bulgaria and Croatia. It is going to be implemented from 01.11.2018 to 31.10.2020. “A career counseling conceptual model for increasing of ICT entrepreneurship skills of VET secondary schools students, ACRONYM: 21st Century entrepreneurship. It is going to be implemented from 01.11.2019 to 31.10.2021. Implementation of Virtual reality based learning methodology in secondary schools: ACRONYM: VR EDUCATION. It is going to be implemented from 01.11.2019 to 31.10.2021.