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Registration opens for LDnet workshop at EWRC2019 on ‘Capitalising on diversity in local development’

For the 8th year running LDnet will be participating at EWRC (formerly Open Days). This year LDnet, in partnership with ELARD, are organising a workshop on 9 October 2019, 9:15 – 10:45, on Capitalising on diversity in local development, under the theme 'A Europe Closer to Citizen'. Registration opened on 8 July 2019 and the workshop reference is : 09WS432 This workshop will demonstrate that bottom-up approaches to local development, like CLLD, … Continue Reading

Strengthening the impact of research on EU local development policies: towards a community of experts

On 6 June 2019, LDnet organised a special session at the annual conference of the RSA in Santiago de Compostela on the topic of "Strengthening the impact of research on EU local development policies". The LDnet workshop presented the opportunities and challenges of involving the research community in … Continue Reading

RSA Europe’s Socio-Spatial Dynamics Summer College, 3-6 September 2019, Cagliari, Sardinia – Skills, Mobility and Entrepreneurship

The mobility of skilled individuals and the transitional nature of the workplace from a more permanent and stationary setting to one that is project-based and dominated by short term contracts is changing the economic landscape. In addition, as highly skilled workers become more reliant on finding, and … Continue Reading

LDnet General Assembly

This year's general assembly of the LDnet association is provisionally planned to take place in Brussels on Wednesday 9 October from 18:00 to 20:00. For the first time we plan to have teleconferencing facilities so that members who are not present in Brussels during the EWRC events could participate remotely. … Continue Reading

European Rural Parliament: 6-9 November 2019

The European Rural Parliament (ERP) is a long-term campaign to express the voice of rural people in Europe; and to promote self-help and action by the rural people, in partnership with civil society and governments. The campaign reaches a climax every two years with a gathering of rural people from all parts … Continue Reading

Internships with LDnet

There are opportunities for internships with LDnet for people with studies or interests related to local development. We have offered such internships, jointly with other Brussels-based organisations, in the last two years with students from French and German universities. We expect to be able to offer one or … Continue Reading

Implementing cohesion policy funds through multi-Fund CLLD

Community-led Local Development (CLLD) was introduced in the 2014-20 programme period and is based on the well-established LEADER tool. While LEADER is distinctly rural, co-funded by the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD), CLLD allows Member States to make use of up to four different ESI … Continue reading

Urban CLLD – The case of FatorC in Cascais, Portugal

CLLD Community Led Local Development (CLLD) is a territorial bottom-up approach, through which Local Development Strategies (LDS) are implemented. Local communities are encouraged to participate in the decisions about the implementation of community funds, by identifying the needs and challenges faced with … Continue reading

CAP Strategic Plans: Where is LEADER?

We are moving towards the adoption of the provisions regarding LEADER in the 2021-2027 period, but it is still difficult to place LEADER in the new architecture of CAP. The proposals of the European Commission regarding Community-led Local Development (CLLD) and LEADER were published in May/June 2018. The … Continue reading

Overcoming EU Discontent in ‘Places That Don’t Matter’ through Community-Led Local Development

The past year has certainly been a particularly difficult one for the strength and cohesion of the European Union. The outcomes of local and national elections in many countries unveiled not only the emergence of new populist and nationalist movements and governments all across the Union, but also a growing … Continue reading

A powerful contribution on the future of local development in the EU

A major contribution by Yves Champetier has been published by AEIDL entitled Europe: a major player in the development of territories. In this Yves offers a personal account and an overview of the progress that has been made over the last 40 years and the challenges facing us today. In his article he … Continue reading

Re-thinking local development policies in times of polarisation

This book, Regional and Local Development in Times of Polarisation, edited by Thilo Lang and Franziska Görmar, contains contributions from 32 academics on “re-thinking spatial policies in Europe”. It is part of the New Geographies of Europe series published by Palgrave. The book takes its starting point by … Continue reading

New OECD publications

The Centre for Entrepreneurship, SMEs, Regions and Cities of the OECD has published a new newsletter showcasing a series of new publications. These include: OECD Regions and Cities at a Glance 2018 This report looks at how regions and cities across the OECD are progressing towards stronger economies, … Continue reading

Local knowledge-based development

In this paper Professor Ilona Pálné Kovács outlines the theoretical frameworks of knowledge-based governance and development, examines the role of local governments as important actors in local development, and examines the scope for place-based development in a centralised governance context. To … Continue reading

CLLD/Leader: Past, present and future

In this wide-ranging paper Robert Lukesch goes back to the precursors of Leader and looks at each stage of its evolution, highlighting the complex principles behind this approach (“more than the seven features and usual clichés”) and discussing success factors. He takes us to the current CLLD/Leader period … Continue reading