LDnet is the lead-partner for the workshop on "Local development strategies: retaining and attracting talents in the regions" which will take place on Thursday 11 October 2018 (11:30 - 13:00) as part of the European Week of Regions and Cities (event reference: 11WS118). Already more than 100 participants have registered and registration is still open, click here. LDnet … [Read more...]
Active and enterprising young people: Kristiina Tammets of ELARD to speak of her grass-roots experience at EWRC 2018
Kristiina Tammets, Vice-president of ELARD and its President in 2016-2017, will be a key speaker at the EWRC workshop on “Local development strategies: retaining and attracting talents in the regions” on 11 October 2018 in Brussels. Her talk will build on extensive practical experience gained on the ground. Kristiina says: “In 2010 our LAG (Tartu County Development … [Read more...]
Marion Eckardt, vice-president of ELARD, brings the experience of Sweden to EWRC 2018
Marion Eckardt, vice-president of ELARD will be one of the speakers at the EWRC workshop co-organised by LDnet and ELARD in cooperation with other partners. Marion will bring her extensive practical experience to the meeting drawing on the work she has led on the ground with young people and their involvement in the regions. Her experience also covers an important project on … [Read more...]
Armelle Ledan, AEIDL, to speak at EWRC on EU initiatives in support of the local approach to retaining and attracting talents
"Several EU initiatives can support local approaches to retaining and attracting talents: this is what reveals Armelle Ledan at AEIDL". LDnet is cooperating with AEIDL in EWRC 2018 and Armelle will be offering an overview of different EU initiatives in support of the local approach to retaining and attracting talents based on her extensive EU-wide experience and AEIDL's … [Read more...]
Maria João Rauch to chair the EWRC workshop on retaining and attracting talents in the regions
LDnet and its partners - ELARD, CIM Alto Minho and AEIDL - have put together an exciting programme for this workshop, says Maria João Rauch, who is coordinating the preparations and will chair the workshop. "We have an impressive line up of international speakers with deep knowledge and involvement at grass-roots level, including José Maria Costa, CIM President and Leader of … [Read more...]
LDnet at RSA Conference in Lugano: the debate on the interaction between research, policy and practice in local development
The RSA Annual Conference 2018 took place in Lugano, Switzerland from 3rd to 6th June on the theme of "A World of Flows: Labour Mobility, Capital and Knowledge in an Age of Global Reversal and Regional Revival". As part of the Conference, "Policy Tuesday" on 5th June focused on issues and inputs concerned with place-based policies. LDnet organised a special session on "What … [Read more...]
A new handbook on evaluating CLLD at the local level
FARNET and FAME Support Units have developed a handbook on evaluating Community-Led Local Development (CLLD) at the local level. This handbook is addressed to all Local Action Groups (LAGs) funded from one or several of the four ESI Funds and it provides them with easy-to-use tools and methods. It covers the main steps in evaluating Local Development Strategies (LDS): planning … [Read more...]
European Commission proposals for CLLD after 2020
The avalanche of proposals for the 2021-2017 period is continuing. On 29.05.2018 the European Commission published its proposal for a new Common Provisions Regulation [COM(2018) 375 final] which confirms the continuation of CLLD although uncertainties remain – and we’ll return with a critical review. Title III, Chapter II of the new CPR deals with Territorial Development, … [Read more...]
Social innovation and territorial development
In his contribution to the International Seminar Social Innovation in Public Policies in Brasilia, on 7 and 8 March 2018, Robert Lukesch discusses the essence of social innovation at the micro level and highlights the importance of governance (“the very notion of social innovation requires an institutional environment which is at least not punishing deviating behaviour”. He … [Read more...]
Community Led Climate Action in the EU
LDnet is cooperating with AEIDL supporting a joint internernship in Brussels. Noémie Bessette, student of Sciences-Po Rennes (France) started her four-month internship working on a number of tasks. A key topic of her internship concerns Community Led Climate Action (CLCA) in the EU, as outlined below. Since its establishment in 1988, AEIDL has focused its attention mainly on … [Read more...]
The future of local development in the EU: Where do you stand?
Already many interesting ideas and proposals are coming out on the future of local development as seen and supported by EU policies and funds. They offer reflections on both the long experience of LEADER (from the days of the ‘community initiatives’ to the mainstreaming of LEADER) and the lessons from the much shorter experience of applying CLLD in rural, urban and coastal … [Read more...]
Showing the added value of LEADER/CLLD through evaluation
This good practice workshop is organised by the European Evaluation Helpdesk for Rural Development in collaboration with the Finnish National Rural Network and the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry. It will take place on 17-18 May 2018 in Helsinki, Finland. This workshop aims to: contribute to shaping a common understanding of the addedvalue of LEADER/CLLD and its … [Read more...]