The COST Action CA18110 – Underground Built Heritage as catalyser for Community Valorisation is issuing a Call for Applications for its Fourth Training School, managed by the University of Malta, which will be held in Mellieha (Malta) from February 6th to 10th, 2023. Structured in lectures and tutored research teamwork modules, the school will focus […]
Other LD events & activities
InDaLE project – Innovative public service provision in rural areas: Closing event 13 December 2022
Innovative public service provision in rural areas: Mutual learning between Germany, Sweden, Austria and Scotland The InDaLE research project In many structurally weak and sparsely populated rural regions of Europe, demographic change coupled with unstable local finances are pushing public services to the brink of their feasibility. With this, the quality of life in such […]
Handbook of Territorial and Local Development Strategies launch
Inspiring experiences and future opportunities The European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC) has recently published a “Handbook of Territorial and Local Development Strategies”. It is addressed to both managing authorities and to strategy owners and other local stakeholders involved in the design and implementation of CLLD, ITI or other territorial instruments, especially in non-urban areas. […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
‘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 […]
SPIRE Baia Mare – Start-Ups Mentoring Programme – Applications
The SPIRE STARTUPS mentoring program is an activity of Smart Post-Industrial Regenerative Ecosystem – SPIRE project supported by Urban Innovative Actions program (UIA – Urban Innovative Actions). The purpose of this project is to experiment, test and implement creative, innovative, visioning, sustainable development solutions for sustainable land use, nature-based solutions. SPIRE proposes a revolutionary approach […]