The Rural Pact conference, 15-16 June 2022, brought together EU, national, and regional politicians along with local authorities, social and economic stakeholders in a participatory event that reflected the rural vision’s ambition and bottom-up character. It sought to engage participants in designing the governance of the Rural Pact and gather commitments for the achievement of […]
Archives for 2022
European Rural Parliament 2022
The 5th European Rural Parliament will take place from 12 to 15 September 2022 in Kielce, Poland. The programme of this event and further information are available HERE.
Rural proofing – a foresight framework for resilient rural communities
This report for the European Committee of the Regions aims at identifying the mainstreaming potentials of existing rural proofing methodologies and territorial impact assessment methodologies in the EU policy process.It was written by Roland Gaugitsch, Isabella Messinger, Wolfgang Neugebauer, Bernd Schuh (ÖIR); Maria Toptsidou, Kai Böhme (Spatial Foresight). Its executive summary is reproduced below. The […]
CLLD – Giving value to coastal landscapes from the bottom up
On 27 May an event organised by the Chair of Landscape Architecture of the Estonian University of Life Sciences, within the series of open seminars “Exploring Landscape Boundaries”, offered an interesting opportunity for an exchange between research and practice in local development. In the seminar on “Community-Led Local Development – giving value to coastal landscapes […]
Rural Europe – European Parliament event
Book Launch on the future of Rural Europe with Special Guests. This hybrid event on 7 June 2022, 16:30-18:30 CEST live from the European Parliament, with physical participation in room WEISS N3.5, with interpretation available in English and French. It marked the launch of the new book Rural Europe Takes Action – No more business […]
Rural Europe Takes Action
This new book by ARC2020 and Forum Synergies – Rural Europe Takes Action – offers incisive and inclusive proposals for political and practical rural action to address the ongoing challenges of the transition towards a more resilient agriculture, a circular economy, a more inclusive rural infrastructure and so on, and new challenges arising from the […]
CLLD country profile: France
An overview of CLLD in France in the 2014-2020 period and beyond: local development approach, use of EU funds, number of LAGs, achievements so far, barriers encountered, national specificities | Main author: Yves Champetier | May 2022
40 years of the OECD local development programme!
The OECD Local Development Forum 15-17 June 2022, Cork, Ireland. It will be an in-person event with live streaming of selected sessions. This year’s Local Development Forum will mark the occasion of the 40th Anniversary of the OECD’s Local Employment and Economic Development and will debate the issues needed to create “Better strategies for stronger […]
Evaluation study on the ENRD and NRNs’ contribution to the implementation of the EU Rural Development policy
DG AGRI has commissioned consultants to carry out an evaluation study aimed to assess how and to what extent the ENRD and the NRNs contributed to the implementation of the EU Rural Development policy in the 2014-2020 programming period. As part of this study, four surveys were designed to obtain inputs into the networks’ results […]
LDnet webinar on ‘Local Development – Lessons for the future from recent research and practice’
LDnet was for the second year a partner in the RSA’s ‘Regions in Recovery’ e-Festival, RinR22 – see below for more information. As part of RinR22 we organised a special session (Ref: SS 23) on 24 March 2022 focusing on bridging research, policy and practice in local development. The recording of the LDnet session can […]
REBOUND: Experts in rural community resilience wanted!
Erasmus+ project ‘REBOUND’ focuses on compiling state-of-the-art knowledge in the field of rural community resilience and well-being After kicking off in February 2022 the REBOUND partnership, including LDnet, has begun the initial planning and work on the project. In order to place the main objectives of the project on a firm theoretical but also practical […]
CLLD country profile: Denmark
An overview of CLLD in Denmark in the 2014-2020 period and beyond: local development approach, use of EU funds, number of LAGs, achievements so far, barriers encountered, national specificities | Main author: Annette Aagaard Thuesen | February 2022