An overview of CLLD in the Netherlands in the 2014-2020 period and beyond: local development approach, use of EU funds, number of LAGs, achievements so far, barriers encountered, national specificities | Authors: Thamar Kok and Josh Geuze | January 2022
Registration opens for the ‘Debate on the future of local development and LDnet’s strategy’: 2 February 2022 (online)
All practitioners and researchers with an interest in local development are welcome to join this debate, organised in conjunction with the Annual Assembly of LDnet, on Wednesday 2 February 2022, from 17:30 to 19:00 CET. The draft agenda of the meeting is below. Click HERE to register. Local development has different faces across Europe and […]
LDnet at ‘Regions in Recovery’ 21.3 -1.4.2022: Local Development: Lessons for the future from recent research and practice
Regions in Recovery Second Edition 2022: Re-imagining Regions After the success of the Global e-Festival ‘Regions in Recovery’ in 2021 the RSA is organising with partners this second edition. This event will be held online and will offer a research-led celebration of regions and how these can be re-imagined in times of challenge including Covid-19, […]
CLLD country profile: Italy
An overview of CLLD in Italy in the 2014-2020 period: local development approach, use of EU funds, number of LAGs, achievements so far, barriers encountered, national specificities | Author: Rosalba La Grotteria, Carlo Ricci, Franco Mantino, Urszula Budzich-Tabor | December 2021
CLLD country profile: Belgium
An overview of CLLD in Belgium in the 2014-2020 period and beyond: local development approach, use of EU funds, number of LAGs, achievements so far, barriers encountered, national specificities | Contributing authors: Wouter Peeters, Nicolas De Fotso Tchienegnom | November 2021
CLLD country profile: Bulgaria
An overview of CLLD in Bulgaria in the 2014-2020 period: local development approach, use of EU funds, number of LAGs, achievements so far, barriers encountered, national specificities | Author: Neli Kadieva | November 2021
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 […]
CLLD in Europe: country profiles & EU-wide analyses
This LDnet initiative aims to present in a systematic and succinct way how local development is implemented in different EU member states, as explained in the introduction CLLD in Europe: An initiative of LDnet. Eighteen CLLD country profiles have now been published for Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czechia, Germany, Estonia, Finland, Greece, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, […]
The ENSAMBLE project: Expertise and Networking to Sustain Actions in Med through Blue and Local Economy
Engaging local communities to boost the blue economy in the Mediterranean is the main goal of the ENSAMBLE project. Coordinated by the Italian FLAG “Costa degli Etruschi” for the Tuscany Region, the project partnership involves an innovative French cooperative based in the Mediterranean (Petra Patrimonia Corsica), an Italian environmental Association (Legambiente Toscana) and a Tunisian […]
Update: Implementing cohesion policy funds through multi-Fund CLLD
Community-led Local Development (CLLD) was introduced in the 2014-20 programme period and is based on the well-established LEADER tool. While LEADER is distinctly rural, co-funded by the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD), CLLD allows Member States to make use of up to four different ESI Funds: EAFRD, the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund […]
‘Recovery through community-led approaches’ – The recording and main points of the concluding webinar of 29 April 2021
The concluding webinar in the LDnet series on ‘Recovery through community-led approaches’ was held on the 29th April 2021. Participants in the previous webinars were invited to join this final session to discuss cross-cutting themes and draw lessons. Questions included: how can community-based solutions be spread more effectively? How can communities work at transnational level […]
LDnet webinars 2021 – ‘Recovery through community-led approaches’
“Recovery through community-led approaches” – 8, 15, 22 & 29 April 2021 What can communities do to spur the recovery from Covid-19? How can local action complement governmental and EU actions? Is engaging local actors the way forward to a more sustainable future? Following positive feedback from participants in LDnet’s 2020 series of webinars, LDnet […]