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Registration opens for the ‘Debate on the future of local development and LDnet’s strategy’: 2 February 2022 (online)
All practitioners and researchers with an interest in local development are welcome to join this debate, organised in conjunction with the Annual Assembly of LDnet, on Wednesday 2 February 2022, from 17:30 to 19:00 CET. The draft agenda of the meeting is below. Click HERE to register. Local development has different faces across Europe and […]
LDnet at ‘Regions in Recovery’ 21.3 -1.4.2022: Local Development: Lessons for the future from recent research and practice
Regions in Recovery Second Edition 2022: Re-imagining Regions After the success of the Global e-Festival ‘Regions in Recovery’ in 2021 the RSA is organising with partners this second edition. This event will be held online and will offer a research-led celebration of regions and how these can be re-imagined in times of challenge including Covid-19, […]
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 […]
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 appeal to support LDnet in connecting and informing people working in local development is still open
Our sincere thanks to all those who responded to our appeal to support LDnet to keep connecting and informing people working in local development. If you would like to make a financial contribution you can still do so below. LDnet is a non profit association committed to spreading the word that community led local development […]
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 […]
‘Regions in Recovery’ e-Festival: three sessions curated by LDnet on ‘Recovery through Community-led Approaches’
The first LDnet session on 3 June 2021 addressed new local development opportunities and challenges. The session started with examples of how local communities in different types of areas (rural, coastal and urban) have been able to respond to the challenges and opportunities of the COVID crisis and what lessons can be drawn for public […]
Towards a Brussels Citizens’ Assembly
“En Question” is the quarterly journal of “Centre Avec“, an association located in Brussels aiming at promoting the common good and citizen engagement. The journal addresses ecology, democracy and interculturality with a view to encouraging action for social justice. In its June 2021 issue, the journal reviews challenges facing democracy and ways to overcome them. […]