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, […]
Events
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‘Better connected rural areas – improving rural mobility’: 27 January 2022, Ostana, Italy
The 3rd Regional Workshop of the Smart Rural 21 project will take place in Ostana (Italy) on 27 January 2022. This workshop aims to present the outcomes of the Smart Rural 21 project to interested stakeholders, both in terms of local rural community support and Smart Village policy lessons to date. It will focus on […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
‘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 […]
‘Recovery through community-led approaches’ – The recording and main points of the concluding webinar of 29 April 2021
The concluding webinar in the LDnet series on ‘Recovery through community-led approaches’ was held on the 29th April 2021. Participants in the previous webinars were invited to join this final session to discuss cross-cutting themes and draw lessons. Questions included: how can community-based solutions be spread more effectively? How can communities work at transnational level […]
‘New exclusions: How communities are combating digital, food and health exclusions’ – The recording and main points from the webinar of 22 April 2021
The third webinar of the LDnet series ‘Recovery through community-led approaches’ dealt with “New exclusions: How communities are combating digital, food and health exclusions”. It was organised in partnership with AEIDL (the European Association for the Information on Local Development), and was attended by some 50 participants. The recording of the webinar is available HERE […]
‘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, and attended by […]
‘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 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 […]
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 […]