Due to Sepra area’s location the main interest in international cooperation is for Estonia, in particular northern parts of the country that are situated south of Sepra area across the Baltic Sea. The cooperation that started at the beginning of the millennium with the Estonian Kodukant has along the way expanded to area’s action groups, as well as other actors in and out of southern and western parts of Estonian. MAIN COOPERATION partner is Arenduskoda on the northern part of Estonia.

With Interreg IVA program Sepra has been involved in the process of creating a sustainable community-based tourism development tool COMCOT, in cooperation with Tartu Rural University and Seinäjoki Ruralia Institute. Võrtsjärv area that has been partner in the cooperation has also a Fishery Local Action Group so cooperation is quite diverse and Sepra has very large networks in Estonia.

As Sepra area is situated in Russian border, the interest to cooperation with Russians is natural. It has been challenging to start cooperation with nearby Vyborg and St. Petersburg areas but cooperation has started well with Lake Ladoga area in Russian Carelia. Sepra has been acting as an expert at the Ruralia Institute's activities in Ladoga, where three "local initiative groups" were established. With one of these pilot LIGs Sepra has implemented a Leader-funded youth project with two Estonian LAGs as partners.

Through International operations local development will gain added value through new experiences and transferred good practices. Expectations are quite high of the most recently started Green care cooperation with Sardinia. In case the cooperation is successful this topic will be further developed in future with other countries too.

To transfer good experience and know-how is a two-way flow and Sepra is prepared, in the limits of its resources to share expertise even to outside EU areas if there is interest to Leader-method and local development.