The first webinar of the LDnet series on “Recovery through community-led approaches” focused on “New opportunities and challenges for local development in a post-Covid world”. It was organised with the support of ELARD and FARNET, and attended by some 70 participants. The recording of the webinar is available HERE. As Urszula Budzich-Tabor reminded in her […]
Archives for 2021
LDnet webinars 2021 – ‘Recovery through community-led approaches’
“Recovery through community-led approaches” – 8, 15, 22 & 29 April 2021 What can communities do to spur the recovery from Covid-19? How can local action complement governmental and EU actions? Is engaging local actors the way forward to a more sustainable future? Following positive feedback from participants in LDnet’s 2020 series of webinars, LDnet […]
‘Underground4value’ Training School at University of Murcia: Call for applications and participation grants
The COST Action CA18110 – Underground Built Heritage as catalyser for Community Valorisation has confirmed the new date for its second training school as 20-24 September 2021 and has issued a Call for Applications. The Training School will be will be held in Murcia and will be managed by the University of Murcia. It will offer […]
SPIRE Baia Mare – Start-Ups Mentoring Programme – Applications
The SPIRE STARTUPS mentoring program is an activity of Smart Post-Industrial Regenerative Ecosystem – SPIRE project supported by Urban Innovative Actions program (UIA – Urban Innovative Actions). The purpose of this project is to experiment, test and implement creative, innovative, visioning, sustainable development solutions for sustainable land use, nature-based solutions. SPIRE proposes a revolutionary approach […]
URBACT Transfer Guide – Social Participative Model using Volunteerism
The network “Volunteering Cities” has decided to develop this Transfer Guide with the objective of giving support to other cities that need/wish to re-visit their Social Policy Governance Model in order to set-up: Co-creation policy making, and Action Plans design processes by incorporating the Volunteers directly and more intensively in these processes. The advantage of […]
CLLD comparisons: ESI funding available to LAGs in different countries
How does the average ESI funding per Local Action Group (LAG) compare by Member State? This analysis is part of the CLLD in Europe initiative of LDnet, comprising CLLD country profiles and horizontal analyses (see here). We have seen that the EAFRD is the dominant ESI Fund in most EU Member States (see here), but also that […]
Call for innovation and research projects supporting capacity building for urban transformations
The ERA-NET Cofund Urban Transformation Capacities (ENUTC) has published on 29 January 2021 a call welcoming a broad range of research and innovation projects that enable capacity building for urban transformations. The call applies a two-step application process, in which the first step involves the submission of a pre-proposal outline (deadline 15 April 2021) and […]
10 years of LDnet: priorities and initiatives in 2021
LDnet was launched in Brussels on 2 February 2011 to bring together people and knowledge in local development. While remaining an informal network, it has become a unique forum covering the theory and practice of bottom-up local development in both rural and urban areas, thanks to its active members and friends, its close working relationship […]
ELARD general assembly: Cohesion Policy in Rural Areas and the role of CLLD
The ELARD General Assembly was held online on 3 February 2021 and included an introductory presentation by Iwona Lizstwan, EC DG AGRI. Stefan Kah was an invited speaker. His presentation “Cohesion Policy in Rural Areas and the role of CLLD” illustrated the main messages of a 2020 study on Cohesion Policy in “non-urban”, i.e. rural […]
LDnet webinars 2020: Rebuilding Local Economies after Lockdown
Between 18 June and 9 July 2020, LDnet organised – in association with RSA Europe, AEIDL and ELARD – a series of four webinars on “Rebuilding local economies after lockdown”, on the following topics: Reinventing local shopping and hospitality New solidarity services Stay at home vacations – staycations Worsening inequalities / social inclusion The Covid-19 pandemic has […]
Local responses to the COVID-19 crisis: A new briefing on lessons for rural development
Several organisations have been collecting and publishing local initiatives in response to the Covid-19 crisis. We have updated our overview and are offering below the links to a number of these initiatives (see sections 1 and 2). We have also conducted a number of discussions in June/July 2020 through the webinar series ‘Rebuilding local economies […]
CLLD comparisons: ESI funding dedicated to CLLD in different countries
What share of ESI funding did Member States dedicate to CLLD in 2014-20 and how does this differ by Fund? This analysis is part of the CLLD in Europe initiative of LDnet, comprising CLLD country profiles and horizontal analyses (see here). CLLD continues to be dominated by the EAFRD, which contributes three quarters of the […]