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Registration is still open for the debate on “Capacity building for local development”, 14 February 2023 (LDnet General Assembly)

The General Assembly of LDnet will take place online on 14 February 2023, 17:00-18:30 CET. As in previous years, it will take place online and will be open to LDnet members, friends and contributors. Its main theme and will be devoted to capacity building for local development. Capacity building for Community Led Local Development    Capacity building is recognised as important for delivering successful local development programmes. But what … Continue Reading

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LDnet Mission Statement

Last year, with CLLD/LEADER entering the new 2021-2027 period, we debated how, after 10 years of operation, LDnet can best contribute in the evolving story of local development.  The General Assembly on 2 February 2022 adopted the following ‘mission statement’ which has guided our activities in 2022. The next … Continue Reading

Support for CLLD in urban areas

LDnet is actively working on proposals for concrete support for CLLD in urban areas. CLLD was introduced into the regulations for ESF and ERDF in the 2014 - 2020 programming period.  Since then 220 Local Action Groups have formed in seven Member States.  Other programmes in rural and coastal/fisheries … Continue Reading

Maria Nowak (1935 – 2022)

Maria Nowak who has died on 22nd December 2022 at the age of 87 single handedly changed the path of micro credit in Europe.  Born in Lviv (then in Poland) in 1935 Maria survived the war and the destruction of her family home and went to live in France as hostilities ceased at the age of 11. After school, … Continue Reading

Fostering rural resilience: first results and newsletter of the REBOUND project

Grasping rural community resilience and well-being After kicking off in February 2022 the REBOUND partnership, including LDnet/AEIDL, focused during the past year on compiling state-of-the-art knowledge in the field of rural community resilience and well-being. The main instrument to achieve this was a … Continue Reading

RSA Annual Conference 2023: Policies and Planning for People and Places

The 2023 RSA Annual Conference will take place in Ljubljana, Slovenia between 14–17 June 2023 and is entitled "Transforming Regions: Policies and Planning for People and Places". Planning is well underway. Registration is due to open in January 2023, and proposals for special sessions or abstracts can be … Continue Reading

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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

The 40th anniversary of OECD’s ILE/LEED programme: Lessons for the future

This document was written by Ron Gass for the 40th Anniversary of the Local Employment Initiatives Programme (ILE) and the Local Employment and Economic Development Programme (LEED). The anniversary was celebrated at the OECD Local Development Forum held in Cork, Ireland on 15th-17th June 2022. Mr Gass was … Continue reading

CLLD country profile: France

This new country profile, the 23rd in this LDnet series on CLLD in Europe, offers an overview of CLLD in France in the 2014-2020 period and beyond: local development approach, use of EU funds, number of LAGs, achievements so far, barriers encountered, national specificities - May 2022Main author: Yves … Continue reading

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PUBLICATIONS

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

Rural proofing – a foresight framework for resilient rural communities

This report for the European Committee of the Regions aims at identifying the mainstreaming potentials of existing rural proofing methodologies and territorial impact assessment methodologies in the EU policy process.It was written by Roland Gaugitsch, Isabella Messinger, Wolfgang Neugebauer, Bernd Schuh … Continue reading

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