As already reported, LDnet and RSA initiated a new COST Action proposal in the Spring of 2020 and coordinated and supported its development. It was provisionally entitled ‘Community solutions – When social Innovation meets local development’. We shared a concept note and invited researchers and practitioners interested in the topic of social innovation and local development … [Read more...]
Archives for November 2020
New CLLD country profiles (Poland, SIovenia) & Where does the EU share of CLLD funding come from?
This LDnet initiative aims to present in a systematic and succinct way how local development is implemented in different EU member states, as explained by Urszula Budzich-Tabor in her introduction to this initiative. CLLD country profiles for Poland and Slovenia have now been published, added to those for Austria, Sweden, Portugal and Czechia. They can be accessed by … [Read more...]
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 divergence within the EU. This study Marta Pilati and Alison Hunter … [Read more...]
EU Cohesion Policy in non-urban areas
A new study by Stefan Kah, Neli Georgieva and Liliana Fonseca of EPRC, carried out for the REGI Committee of the European Parliament, looks at the role of EU Cohesion Policy in rural areas. The study analyses the challenges of these areas and discusses the extent and thematic orientation of rural Cohesion Policy funding. The study then presents the relationship between … [Read more...]