The RSA Annual Conference 2018 will take place in Lugano, Switzerland from 3rd to 6th June on the theme of "A World of Flows: Labour Mobility, Capital and Knowledge in an Age of Global Reversal and Regional Revival". As part of the Conference, "Policy Tuesday" on 5th June will focus on issues and inputs concerned with place-based policies. LDnet will organise a special session on "What the Cohesion Policy needs (but doesn’t get) from Research: … Continue Reading
LDnet at EWRC 2018: Local development strategies; retaining and attracting talents in the regions
The EWRC organisers have confirmed that LDnet's proposal to organise a workshop in October 2018 as part of EWRC 2018, in collaboration with ELARD and CIM Alto Minho, has been accepted. The workshop is entitled Local development strategies: retaining and attracting talents in the regions. An outline of its aims and scope is presented below. The full programme of this event, including speakers' names, will be published shortly. Local … Continue Reading
Events & activities
GDPR and LDnet
As new data protection regulations come into effect in the European Union, we’re taking the opportunity to explain that the only data kept by LDnet is email addresses used to mail monthly news (and any other data users of this website may have entered when registering). We do not share any data with any third … Continue Reading
Follow us on Twitter!
LDnet has a new hashtag. You can now follow the latest LDnet developments at: LDnetNews … Continue Reading
Conference on “Using social innovation policy approaches to help cities and regions realise the potential of the European Pillar of Social Rights”
This Monday April 16th 2018, a networking conference was organised at the Committee of the Regions on the initiative of the REVES Network, the Social Innovation Community and the University of Bologna. The event aimed to reflect on “Using social innovation policy approaches to help cities and regions realise … Continue Reading
Showing the added value of LEADER/CLLD through evaluation
This good practice workshop is organised by the European Evaluation Helpdesk for Rural Development in collaboration with the Finnish National Rural Network and the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry. It will take place on 17-18 May 2018 in Helsinki, Finland. This workshop aims to: contribute to … Continue Reading
Articles
Concept of locality clarified by RELOCAL
RELOCAL is a research project funded under the Horizon 2020 programme, ‘Resituating the Local in Cohesion and Territorial Development’. It is a 4 years project involving 13 partners, coordinated by the university of eastern Finland and covering 12 countries, mainly in the Northern and Eastern parts of the EU. … Continue reading
The future of local development in the EU: Where do you stand?
Already many interesting ideas and proposals are coming out on the future of local development as seen and supported by EU policies and funds. They offer reflections on both the long experience of LEADER (from the days of the ‘community initiatives’ to the mainstreaming of LEADER) and the lessons from the … Continue reading
Social innovation, CLLD and the future of rural development
The debate on the future of EU policies and budgets post-2020 is hotting up. A new policy brief from SIMRA, makes a contribution in the context of the European Commission’s Communication on the Common Agricultural Policy post-2020, “The Future of Food and Farming”. The policy brief stresses that social … Continue reading
Evaluation of CLLD: concerns raised by local practitioners and a practical response
Practitioners from different countries have been commenting on the new guidelines on the evaluation of LEADER/CLLD. These guidelines, published by the European Evaluation Helpdesk for Rural Development complement the legal requirements relating to LEADER/CLLD evaluations and aim to clarify the common elements … Continue reading
PUBLICATIONS
Social innovation and territorial development
In his contribution to the International Seminar Social Innovation in Public Policies in Brasilia, on 7 and 8 March 2018, Robert Lukesch discusses the essence of social innovation at the micro level and highlights the importance of governance (“the very notion of social innovation requires an institutional … Continue reading
Leadership in place-based development
“The role of leadership in place-based development and building institutional arrangements” is a paper by L. G. Horlings, D. Roep and W. Wellbrock published in Local Economy, the journal of the Local Economic Policy Unit. In various case studies across Europe the vital role of rural place leadership in … Continue reading
What does “community led” really mean?
In the 2014-2020 programming period "community-led local development" (CLLD) has become embedded in the terminology all those working on local development. But while we are already starting debating the future of CLLD beyond 2020, there are still uncertainties about the basics of this approach, including what … Continue reading
Towards an inclusive and sustainable CLLD: lessons from neighbourhood management in Berlin
CLLD is more often associated with a rural or fisheries context. In this paper by Pietro Verga deals with ‘urban CLLD’, which builds on experiences, particularly, from the URBAN Initiatives and the LEADER programme. His research is based in Berlin and is within the policy context of the German Soziale Stadt … Continue reading