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“What next for local development?” – The recording of the debate

The General Assembly of the LEDA-Partenariat Association (LDnet) took place online on Monday 19 February 2024. It offered an opportunity to 35 participants, members and friends of LDnet, to discuss broader issues on local development and the priorities of LDnet for 2024. In the last year, LDnet has been actively involved in capacity building and […]

Webinar on Fostering Resilience in Rural Communities

Sharing experiences from an innovative training and capacity-building programme for voluntary and professional rural development practitioners. This EU-level webinar on Fostering Resilience in Rural Communities took place on Tuesday 23 January 2024. It was attended by some 160 active participants. The event was organised as part of the REBOUND project and presented key concepts and […]

REBOUND – Training and capacity-building programme

REBOUND is an inter-territorial project supported by the EU through ERASMUS+. It pursues an action-research approach to promoting rural community resilience. LDnet experts participate in the project and its first report on the State of the Art and Practices of Rural Community Resilience has alredy been published. An update on the progress of the REBOUND […]

Fostering rural resilience: first results and newsletter of the REBOUND project

Grasping rural community resilience and well-being After kicking off in February 2022 the REBOUND partnership, including LDnet/AEIDL, focused during the past year on compiling state-of-the-art knowledge in the field of rural community resilience and well-being. The main instrument to achieve this was a questionnaire distributed to a broad range of stakeholders to gain community, practitioner, […]

Michael Dower (1933 – 2022)

We are very saddened at the news of the death of Michael Dower, a great champion of rural communities, leading light in rural development, long-standing friend and member of LDnet. Michael passed away on 7 November 2022. He had a long and fruitful life. He trained as a chartered surveyor and town planner followed by […]

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 […]

New project launched: REBOUND – ‘Fostering Resilience in Rural Communities’

The implementation of this project, under the Erasmus+ programme, kicked off on 1 February 2022. The two-year 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 imperatives and impetuses towards the promotion of […]

Partner & Expert search

LDnet facilitates cooperation between participants in the network. If you are looking for partner(s) or expert(s) for a new or existing project you can fill in this form. We’ll inform other LDnet network participants and will ask them to contact you directly if they are interested in your cooperation ideas. If it’s feasible and we […]