Registration is open for this year’s European Week of Regions and Cities. Under the motto New Challenges for Europe’s Cohesion the EWRC2022 offers a wide range of events. Some highlights include: Cross-border community-led local development: the success of four local action groups in the Interreg IT-AT programme – ONLINE – 12WS22185 Wednesday, October 12, 2022 […]
Other LD events & activities
RSA research funding opportunities
The Regional Studies Association (RSA) provides a range of research funding opportunities to suit different career stages. Forthcoming grant and award deadlines: 2022 Small Grant on Pandemics, Cities, Regions & Industry This scheme aims to support a discrete piece of regional studies and/or regional science research on the impact of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) on regions, […]
European Rural Parliament, 12-15 September 2022, Kielce
The 5th European Rural Parliament 2022 will take place from 12 to 15 September 2022 in Kielce, Poland. The full programme of this event and further information are available HERE.
Smart Rural 21 Project – Final Conference: 17-18 October 2022, Gdansk
The conference will take place on 17-18 October 2022 in Gdansk (Poland) and will present the final outcomes of the Smart Rural 21 Project that are the result of intensive collaboration with rural communities and other relevant stakeholders across Europe to realise Smart Villages on the ground. More information is available HERE. The Smart Rural 21 project will be able to support travel and accommodation costs […]
Third Joint EU Cohesion Policy Conference: 14-16 November 2022, Zagreb
Green, Digital, Inclusive and Fair: How can Cohesion Policy rise to the new territorial challenges? Third Joint EU Cohesion Policy Conference 14-16 November 2022, Zagreb, Croatia The RSA is organising the Third EU Cohesion Policy conference in partnership with the European Commission, DG Regio and the Croatian Ministry of Regional Development. The Conference will bring […]
Rural Pact: European and local leaders join forces to make local communities stronger
The Rural Pact conference, 15-16 June 2022, brought together EU, national, and regional politicians along with local authorities, social and economic stakeholders in a participatory event that reflected the rural vision’s ambition and bottom-up character. It sought to engage participants in designing the governance of the Rural Pact and gather commitments for the achievement of […]
CLLD – Giving value to coastal landscapes from the bottom up
On 27 May an event organised by the Chair of Landscape Architecture of the Estonian University of Life Sciences, within the series of open seminars “Exploring Landscape Boundaries”, offered an interesting opportunity for an exchange between research and practice in local development. In the seminar on “Community-Led Local Development – giving value to coastal landscapes […]
Rural Europe – European Parliament event
Book Launch on the future of Rural Europe with Special Guests. This hybrid event on 7 June 2022, 16:30-18:30 CEST live from the European Parliament, with physical participation in room WEISS N3.5, with interpretation available in English and French. It marked the launch of the new book Rural Europe Takes Action – No more business […]
40 years of the OECD local development programme!
The OECD Local Development Forum 15-17 June 2022, Cork, Ireland. It will be an in-person event with live streaming of selected sessions. This year’s Local Development Forum will mark the occasion of the 40th Anniversary of the OECD’s Local Employment and Economic Development and will debate the issues needed to create “Better strategies for stronger […]
Evaluation study on the ENRD and NRNs’ contribution to the implementation of the EU Rural Development policy
DG AGRI has commissioned consultants to carry out an evaluation study aimed to assess how and to what extent the ENRD and the NRNs contributed to the implementation of the EU Rural Development policy in the 2014-2020 programming period. As part of this study, four surveys were designed to obtain inputs into the networks’ results […]
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 […]