LDnet

Local Development Network

LDnet | CLLD at Open Days 2012

This year’s Open Days were full to brimming with CLLD. In addition to LDnet’s “Community-led local development as a European movement” (09A10) and the URBACT (10A01) and social innovation (10A18) workshops referred to below, it was available in 12 other flavours: LEADER – ELARD (09A02), CCMR (09A14), disaster resilience & climate change adaptation (10A02), LUDEN […]

LDnet | Citizen participation and community-led local development

LDnet workshop at Open Days 2013 (Ref: 09C19) This workshop will present practical experiences in tackling issues and finding solutions in urban areas with a jobs and enterprise, environmental and community services dimension. It will focus on citizen engagement in local development to help address the serious challenges now facing cities in the prolonged economic […]

LDnet | Summary of the LDnet Workshop

There were many workshops on CLLD in this year’s OPEN DAYS. The LDnet workshop had three distinguishing features in aiming to illustrate local development in action in both urban and rural areas; both past and the present challenges: how different local approaches were conceived and evolved over many years; under various EU and national policies […]

LDnet | IDELE

| IDELE IDELE DG Employment research programme managed by ecorys produced a series of useful reports most of them written by Peter Lloyd and also Francesca Froy. They mostly date from 2004 IDELE thematic report series Old industrial and mining areas: the added value of local employment development (Seminar 1: Lille, France) http://www.uk.ecorys.com/idele/themes/oldindustrial/resources/idele_summary_report_oldindustrial.pdf The Metropolitan […]

LDnet | OD2014 Capacity Building

Capacity building: what for? Open Days 2014, Ref 07B10, Tuesday 7 October, 14:30-17:00, Room JDE51, followed by a networking session On Tuesday 7 October LDnet organised a debate on “capacity building: what for?” as part of Open Days 2014(cache). It was opened with a presentation by Simona Pascariu on capacity building in rural Romania, and […]

LDnet | Statute of LEDA-LDnet Association

What is LDnet? Registration and to contact LDnet LDnet is an informal network set up in 2011 to bring together knowledge and people in local development. For further information about LDnet contact Haris Martinos: haris_martinos at hotmail.com Peter Ramsden: peterramsden2 at gmail.com We register as network participants and users of this wiki site people who […]

LDnet | Swedish CLLD approach

Four funds available In the Swedish Rural Development Programme, which is expected to be approved by the Commission in June 2015, the CLLD approach is to fully embrace the multi fund approach. In their local development strategies the LAGs have the possibility to choose all the four funds, given there are logical and clear arguments […]

LDnet | Toby Johnson

AEIDL toby.johnson@poptel.org I have been involved in the co-operative movement since 1977 and have been in Brussels since 1994. I work mostly with AEIDL as part of the team supporting the learning networks among ESF managing authorities. I monitor and maybe mentor COPIE in inclusive entrepreneurship and BFSE in the social economy.

LDnet | What is community led local development

Community led local development implies a bottom up approach that directly involves the local community in its own development. Local authorities may support community led local development but the impetus normally comes from local enterprises and civil society organisations. The idea of community led local development has now made its way onto the agenda of […]