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Archives for 2021

CLLD country profile: Italy

An overview of CLLD in Italy in the 2014-2020 period: local development approach, use of EU funds, number of LAGs, achievements so far, barriers encountered, national specificities | Author: Rosalba La Grotteria, Carlo Ricci, Franco Mantino, Urszula Budzich-Tabor | December 2021

LDnet, partner in the REBOUND project on ‘Fostering Resilience in Rural Communities’

This new project has been selected under the Erasmus+ programme.  It’s a two-year project whose implementation is due to start in February 2022. The project is led by the Technological University of the Shannon (formerly Limerick Institute of Technology, Ireland) working with five partner organisations, including LDnet. REBOUND seeks to respond to macro- and micro-level […]

COP26: Social innovation and just transition to climate neutrality

How social innovation contributes to just transitions to climate neutrality A side event at the COP 26 in Glasgow, organised on 10.11.2021 by the James Hutton Institute, Aberdeen, Scotland/UK The James Hutton Institute, UK, lead partner of the HORIZON 2020 research project SIMRA (Social Innovation in Marginalised Rural Areas), seized the opportunity to emphasize the […]

CLLD country profile: Belgium

An overview of CLLD in Belgium in the 2014-2020 period and beyond: local development approach, use of EU funds, number of LAGs, achievements so far, barriers encountered, national specificities | Contributing authors: Wouter Peeters, Nicolas De Fotso Tchienegnom | November 2021

CLLD country profile: Bulgaria

An overview of CLLD in Bulgaria in the 2014-2020 period: local development approach, use of EU funds, number of LAGs, achievements so far, barriers encountered, national specificities | Author: Neli Kadieva | November 2021

LEADER 30 years celebration & conference

ELARD  organised this conference from 30.11 to 3.12.2021 in Halmstad (Sweden) to celebrate 30 years of LEADER and also to look forward: “We will take a look on successful LEADER-implementation during 30 years, but also investigate how we can work for local democracy and participatory approaches all over rural Europe in order to build a […]

CLLD in Europe: country profiles & EU-wide analyses

This LDnet initiative aims to present in a systematic and succinct way how local development is implemented in different EU member states, as explained in the introduction CLLD in Europe: An initiative of LDnet. Eighteen CLLD country profiles have now been published for Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czechia, Germany, Estonia, Finland, Greece, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, […]

Acting for green and local finance

“Together, let us change finance” This is the motto of Financité magazine, a quarterly review produced by Financité, a further education movement in French-speaking Belgium advocating ethical, solidarity-based finance. Some 5 000 people, organizations and groups are members of Financité, many of them volunteering to contribute to concrete action. Financité magazine informs them and some […]

The ENSAMBLE project: Expertise and Networking to Sustain Actions in Med through Blue and Local Economy

Engaging local communities to boost the blue economy in the Mediterranean is the main goal of the ENSAMBLE project. Coordinated by the Italian FLAG “Costa degli Etruschi” for the Tuscany Region, the project partnership involves an innovative French cooperative based in the Mediterranean (Petra Patrimonia Corsica), an Italian environmental Association (Legambiente Toscana) and a Tunisian […]