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REBOUND – Training and capacity-building programme – Deadline to register: 31.7.2023

REBOUND is an inter-territorial project supported by the EU through ERASMUS+. It pursues an action-research approach to promoting rural community resilience. LDnet experts participate in the project and its first report on the State of the Art and Practices of Rural Community Resilience has alredy been published. An update on the progress of the REBOUND project is provided in its latest newsletter. The REBOUND partners are now offering places … Continue Reading

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Euracademy – Györ 27-31 August 2023: Rural communities responding to the climate crisis and commiting themselves to a regenerative future

The Euracademy Association and Széchenyi István University invite participants in the 20th Summer Academy, to be held in Györ, Hungary from 27th to 31st August 2023. Theme: How can rural communities respond to the climate crisis and commit themselves to a regenerative future by changing farming … Continue Reading

Delivering high quality community-led local development in urban areas

LDnet has been engaged by European Urban Initiative (EUI) for the preparation and delivery of an EUI Capacity building event focused on CLLD. This event took take place in Timisoara (Romania) from the morning of 7th June until lunchtime on 9th June. It was organised by EUI with help from LDnet, with a team of … Continue Reading

Local development beyond Europe: UN resolution on the promotion of social and solidarity economy and the localisation of SDGs.

At its 66th plenary meeting on April 18, 2023, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the resolution “Promoting the Social and Solidarity Economy for Sustainable Development” (A/77/L.60). The resolution provides an official definition for the Social and Solidarity Economy and acknowledges that it can … Continue Reading

LDnet General Assembly & the debate on “Capacity building for local development”- Key messages & full recording

The General Assembly of LDnet took place online on 14 February 2023. As in previous years, it was open to LDnet members, friends and contributors. The full recording is available HERE. Key points from the presentations and discussions are summarised below. Capacity building for Community Led Local … Continue Reading

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CLLD in the 2014–2020 period: An Innovative Framework for Local Development

The World journal has published a new article entitled "CLLD in the 2014–2020 EU Programming Period: An Innovative Framework for Local Development", by Stefan Kah, Haris Martinos and Urszula Budzich-Tabor. The paper builds on the country summaries and horizontal analyses developed as part of LDnet's CLLD in … Continue reading

European Commission and Council responses to the ECA report on LEADER/CLLD

We have already published our review of the special report of the European Court of Auditors on LEADER and CLLD, in response to the overall message from the ECA that “LEADER and community-led local development facilitates local engagement but additional benefits still not sufficiently demonstrated”. We now … Continue reading

A review of the ECA report on LEADER and CLLD

The European Court of Auditors has recently published a special report on LEADER and CLLD and we have presented it HERE. The overall message from the ECA is that "LEADER and community-led local development facilitates local engagement but additional benefits still not sufficiently demonstrated". The analysis … Continue reading

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PUBLICATIONS

State of the Art and Practices of Rural Community Resilience

The REBOUND project (Fostering Resilience in Rural Communities) has published a report on the State of the Art and Practices of Rural Community Resilience. The aim of this report is to provide an analysis of innovative processes and patterns pertaining to rural resilience across Europe. It is the first major … Continue reading

The added-value of CLLD in Interreg

This study has been carried out by Jean-Pierre Vercruysse for Directorate D, DG REGIO of the European Commission with the purpose of better understanding the added-value of cross-border CLLD in the framework of Interreg. We publish below the Executive Summary of the study. The full report is available … Continue reading

Resilient coastal communities: a guide for FLAGs

"Resilient rural communities" is a topic we have addressed on several occasions, including research publications on rural proofing, articles on the core principles of resilience and resilient villages and LDnet's participation in the Erasmus+ project REBOUND. We are now highlighting a practical guide on … Continue reading

Integrated development in action!

Ιntegrated territorial development in UIA projects This study focuses on good practices in the integrated territorial approach in the 86 Urban Innovative Actions (UIA) projects financed in the 2014-20 programme period. Integrated territorial development (ITD) proposes a different way of shaping solutions … Continue reading

European Court of Auditors report on LEADER and CLLD

The long-awaited special report of the European Court of Auditors on LEADER and CLLD has been published. The overall message from the ECA is that "LEADER and community-led local development facilitates local engagement but additional benefits still not sufficiently demonstrated". We present below the … Continue reading

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