The concluding webinar in this series was held on the 29th April. Participants in the previous webinars were invited to join this final session to discuss cross-cutting themes and draw lessons. Questions included: how can community-based solutions be spread more effectively? How can communities work at transnational level to innovate without reinventing the wheel? What support is needed at local, national and EU level? Specific issues … Continue Reading
Events & activities
‘New exclusions: How communities are combating digital, food and health exclusions’ – The recording and main points from the webinar of 22 April 2021
The third webinar of the LDnet series dealt with “New exclusions: How communities are combating digital, food and health exclusions”. It was organised in partnership with AEIDL (the European Association for the Information on Local Development), and was attended by some 50 participants. The recording of … Continue Reading
‘Communities in circles: new forms of development’ – The recording and main points from the webinar of 15 April 2021
The second webinar of the series "Recovery through community-led approaches" focused on “Communities in circles: new forms of development”. It was organised by LDnet in partnership with AEIDL (the European Association for the Information on Local Development). It was organised with the support of AEIDL and … Continue Reading
‘New opportunities and challenges for local development in a post-Covid world’ – The recording and main points from the webinar of 8 April 2021
The first webinar of the LDnet series on “Recovery through community-led approaches” focused on “New opportunities and challenges for local development in a post-Covid world”. It was organised with the support of ELARD and FARNET, and attended by some 70 participants. The recording of the webinar is … Continue Reading
SPIRE Baia Mare – Start-Ups Mentoring Programme – Applications
The SPIRE STARTUPS mentoring program is an activity of Smart Post-Industrial Regenerative Ecosystem – SPIRE project supported by Urban Innovative Actions program (UIA - Urban Innovative Actions). The purpose of this project is to experiment, test and implement creative, innovative, visioning, sustainable … Continue Reading
‘Exploring Landscape Boundaries’ open seminars
On April 30th 2pm EET, the Landscape Architecture department of the Estonian University of Life Sciences is hosting a seminar as part of a series called 'Exploring Landscape Boundaries' with the aim to highlight the work of thedepartment but also to take different perspectives on landscapes. Information … Continue Reading
Global e-Festival: Regions in Recovery – Building Sustainable Futures – Call for abstracts
This multi-partner event will run globally, online from 2 to 18 June 2021. It will bring together a number of global communities representing planners, finance and economic geographers, economists, infrastructure specialists, regional policy experts and researchers. The Festival will address themes related to … Continue Reading
Articles
CLLD country profile: Luxembourg
April 2021Main author: Françoise Bonert Series coordination and editing: Urszula Budzich-Tabor, Stefan Kah, Haris Martinos … Continue reading
CLLD country profile: Finland
April 2021Main author: Marjo TolvanenSeries coordination and editing: Urszula Budzich-Tabor, Stefan Kah, Haris Martinos … Continue reading
CLLD comparisons: ESI funding available to LAGs in different countries
How does the average ESI funding per Local Action Group (LAG) compare by Member State? This analysis is part of the CLLD in Europe initiative of LDnet, comprising CLLD country profiles and horizontal analyses (see here). We have seen that the EAFRD is the dominant ESI Fund in most EU Member States (see … Continue reading
Local responses to the COVID-19 crisis: A new briefing on lessons for rural development
Several organisations have been collecting and publishing local initiatives in response to the Covid-19 crisis. We have updated our overview and are offering below the links to a number of these initiatives (see sections 1 and 2). We have also conducted a number of discussions in June/July 2020 through … Continue reading
CLLD in Europe: country profiles & EU-wide analyses
This LDnet initiative aims to present in a systematic and succinct way how local development is implemented in different EU member states, as explained in the introduction CLLD in Europe: An initiative of LDnet. CLLD country profiles have now been published for Austria, Czechia, Estonia, Finland, Greece, … Continue reading
CLLD comparisons: ESI funding dedicated to CLLD in different countries
What share of ESI funding did Member States dedicate to CLLD in 2014-20 and how does this differ by Fund? This analysis is part of the CLLD in Europe initiative of LDnet, comprising CLLD country profiles and horizontal analyses (see here). CLLD continues to be dominated by the EAFRD, which contributes … Continue reading
PUBLICATIONS
URBACT Transfer Guide – Social Participative Model using Volunteerism
The network “Volunteering Cities” has decided to develop this Transfer Guide with the objective of giving support to other cities that need/wish to re-visit their Social Policy Governance Model in order to set-up: Co-creation policy making, and Action Plans design processes by incorporating the … Continue reading
Territorial Approaches for Sustainable Development
Perspectives and approaches that put territories at the centre of development have returned to become important in international debate and policy to implement the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Among the reasons for the renewed emphasis is the need to improve the effectiveness of sectoral … Continue reading
Building back better from COVID-19 through inclusive territorial approaches
GIZ has published this discussion paper in which the authors, Thomas Forster and Florence Egal, argue that from diverse experiences of countries and that of local and regional governments1, it is evident that the Coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) has a number of territorial dimensions that need to be better … Continue reading
CLLD country profile: Greece
March 2021Main authors: Iro Tsimpri and Tasos PerimenisSeries coordination and editing: Urszula Budzich-Tabor, Stefan Kah, Haris Martinos … Continue reading
Where does the EU share of CLLD funding come from?
The 2014-20 programme period introduced the option for Member States to support Local Action Groups (LAGs) from more than just EAFRD or EMFF, allowing to also use the Structural Funds ERDF and ESF. Yet, only 16 Member States decided to make the use of Structural Funds for CLLD possible. For more detail please … Continue reading
EU lagging regions: State of play and future challenges
The EU’s lagging regions face significant challenges to transform their economic under-performance. Current ongoing transitions, such as digitalisation and towards a sustainable society, and the COVID-19 pandemic are accentuating these challenges. This is both creating new and exacerbating existing internal … Continue reading