SDSN Portugal, in collaboration with SDSN, and under the auspices of the President of the Portuguese Republic, is organizing the international conference entitled “Paving the Way to the Pact of the Future” took place on 17 and 18 June, 2024 in Lisbon, Portugal. The hybrid conference addressed selected themes from the UN Agenda in preparation […]
Events
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JRC Webinar Series – Future of Cities
This series focuses on The Future of Cities report which identifies challenges influencing the future of cities in Europe and beyond. It also presents several perspectives from which to look at resolving these issues. It is an initiative of the Joint Research Centre (JRC), the science and knowledge service of the European Commission (EC), supported by the Commission’s Directorate-General for Regional and Urban […]
Euracademy: Responsible Food Production and Consumption for a Sustainable Future, 16-20.6.2024, Greece
The 22nd Summer Academy of Euracademy will take place near Rafina in Attica, Greece, from 16 to 20 June 2024. The theme of the Academy is one of the closest to the heart of everyone, namely “Responsible Food Production and Consumption for a Sustainable Future” or what makes “Good Food” for us all. For further […]
“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 […]
LEADER European Congress 2023: LEADER, the Rural Pact & rural-urban interaction
The 2023 European LEADER Congress took place in Brussels on 18 and 19 December 2023 at the European Parliament, the Committee of the Regions and the European Economic and Social Committee. This Congress is the first event to bring together as many European LAGs as possible in more than 15 years. It brought together more […]
Rural toolkit launch event
The Rural toolkit is an initiative of the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Regional and Urban Policy (DG REGIO) and Joint Research Centre (JRC), in collaboration with the Directorate-General for Agriculture and Rural Development (DG AGRI). It is the first comprehensive online guide to EU funding and support opportunities for rural areas in the European Union. […]
European Landscape Forum 2024 – Tartu 24-28.6.2024
The Landscape Forum 2024 will take place in Tartu, Estonia, from 24 to 28 June, 2024. The forum is hosted by the Estonian University of Life Sciences (EMU). The focus topic of the event is The Landscape as the Container of the Bioeconomy with working groups on water, forests, fibrescapes, foodscapes, mobility and nature tourism; […]
EUI capacity building event on urban CLLD (Timisoara)
LDnet has been engaged by European Urban Initiative (EUI) for the preparation and delivery of an EUI Capacity building event focused on CLLD. This event took take place in Timisoara (Romania) from 7th to 9th June 2023. It was organised by EUI with help from LDnet, with a team of moderators, expert in CLLD 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 […]
PARTENALIA ConferenceT (Timişoara): Cultural Catalysts
The PARTENALIA Association, the pan European network of Local Intermediate Authorities, held its 2023 annual conference on 15 November 2023 in Timişoara (RO). The conference was titled ‘Cultural Catalysts: Local Intermediate Authorities Nurturing Heritage, Collaboration, and Funding for the Arts’. The programme included sessions on: Brussels, Patron of the arts: a European perspective Empowering Europe’s […]
CENTRINNO’s Focus Group series: the Fab City Hubs workshop
The grand finale of the CENTRINNO project’s Focus Group series, the Fab City Hubs workshop took place online on 23 November 2023. Over the past months, the focus groups engaged in insightful discussions on key topics such as Social Inclusion, Circularity, and Vocational Training. This last Focus Group on Fab City Hubs encapsulated the essence […]