The third LDnet webinar in this series is coming up on Thursday 22 April 2021at 18:00 CEST on “New exclusions: How communities are combating digital, food and health exclusions”. Registration is open. To register click HERE Thursday 22 April, 18:00 – 19:00 CEST New exclusions: How communities are combating digital, food and health exclusions Webinar […]
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‘Communities in circles: new forms of development’ – The recording and main points from the webinar of 15 April 2021
The second webinar of the series “Recovery through community-led approaches” focused on “Communities in circles: new forms of development”. It was organised by LDnet in partnership with AEIDL (the European Association for the Information on Local Development). It was organised with the support of AEIDL and FARNET and contributions from URBACT projects. The recording of […]
‘New opportunities and challenges for local development in a post-Covid world’ – The recording and main points from the webinar of 8 April 2021
The first webinar of the new LDnet series on “New opportunities and challenges for local development in a post-Covid world” 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 […]
CLLD country profile: Finland
An overview of CLLD in Finland in the 2014-2020 period: local development approach, use of EU funds, number of LAGs, achievements so far, barriers encountered, national specificities | Main author: Marjo Tolvanen | April 2021
CLLD country profile: Greece
An overview of CLLD in Greece in the 2014-2020 period: local development approach, use of EU funds, number of LAGs, achievements so far, barriers encountered, national specificities | Main authors: Iro Tsimpri and Tasos Perimenis | March 2021
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 […]
‘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 […]
Global e-Festival: Regions in Recovery – Building Sustainable Futures – Call for abstracts
This multi-partner event will run globally, online from 2 to 18 June 2021. It will bring together a number of global communities representing planners, finance and economic geographers, economists, infrastructure specialists, regional policy experts and researchers. The Festival will address themes related to the re-emergence of regions and cities from the pandemic. It will address […]
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 […]