‘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 policy. It concluded with an open discussion of what local development can and cannot do at times of crisis, and how top-down policies can support bottom-up initiative to enable community resilience.

Interesting points in the discussion included how to avoid elite capture and domination of the public sector in CLLD, and the dilemma between greening and inequalities. The different ways of using EU funds for CLLD in different Member States of the EU and the availability of relevant data for researchers and policy analysts were further points debated.

The presentations are available below:

You can watch the recording of this session up to the end of August 2021, click HERE.

The second LDnet session on Thursday 10 June at 16:00 CEST explored local development’s potential to address new exclusions. The a focus of the session was on policy and institutional frameworks to foster bottom-up initiative and local resilience, and the role of community-led local development and other integrated approaches in the post-2020 EU policies. For further details see HERE.

The presentations are available below:

• Rosalba La Grotteria: Local Social Initiatives During Pandemic Times – How Governance Changed – Part 1 Turin – click HERE to watch
• Giuseppe Pace: Local Social Initiatives During Pandemic Times – How Governance Changed – Part 2 Naples – click HERE to watch

You can watch the recording of this session until to the end of August 2021 – click HERE.

The final session curated by LDnet at the e-Festival on ‘Regions in Recovery’ on Thursday 17 June at 16:00 CEST explored how in the Covid-19 recovery local development can find new solutions in the circular economy.  For further details see HERE.

You can watch the recording of this session until to the end of August 2021 – click HERE.

The presentations of the session are available below:

LDnet sessions at the e-Festival ‘Regions in Recovery’

LDnet was a partner in the Global e-Festival: Regions in Recovery – Building Sustainable Futures, organised by the RSA from 2 to 18 June 2021. LDnet curated three sessions on 3, 10 and 17 June from 16:00 to 17:30 CEST, on the contribution of community-based initiatives to the COVID recovery with a focus on policy and integrated approaches.

These sessions brought together practitioners and researchers working in different fields related to local development,  building on LDnet’s related work in 2020 and its recent series of webinars in April 2021. They explored how in the Covid-19 recovery local development:

• generates opportunities and also faces challenges;
• can address new exclusions;
• can find new solutions in the circular economy and get the most of ‘circularity’.

The focus of these sessions was on policy and institutional frameworks to foster bottom-up initiative and local resilience, and the role of community-led local development and other integrated approaches in the post-2020 EU policies.