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 […]
Social capital and short food supply chains: Evidence from Fisheries LAGs
New empirical research by Richard Freeman, Jeremy Phillipson, Matthew Gorton, Barbara Tocco uses a new methodological approach for understanding the wider impacts of CLLD and how it can be transferred to different contexts. It is presented in an article titled “Social capital and short food supply chains: Evidence from Fisheries Local Action Groups” published in Sociologia Ruralis. […]
Workshop: Multi-funding opportunities expand LEADER’s potential
This workshop of the EU CAP Network on LEADER and multi-funded CLLD approaches was held on 18-19 October 2023 in Ljubljana (SI). It was attended by participants from 20 Member States who exchanged experiences and discussed the challenges and practical solutions in the implementation of multi-funded CLLD at the policy and operational level. The LEADER […]
LDnet General Assembly & the debate on “Capacity building for local development”- Key messages & full recording
The General Assembly of LDnet took place online on 14 February 2023. As in previous years, it was open to LDnet members, friends and contributors. The full recording is available HERE. Key points from the presentations and discussions are summarised below. Capacity building for Community Led Local Development Its main theme was devoted to […]
CLLD in the 2014–2020 period: An Innovative Framework for Local Development
The World journal has published a new article entitled “CLLD in the 2014–2020 EU Programming Period: An Innovative Framework for Local Development”, by Stefan Kah, Haris Martinos and Urszula Budzich-Tabor. The paper builds on the country summaries and horizontal analyses developed as part of LDnet’s CLLD in Europe initiative, and includes extensive reflections on ‘The […]
European Commission and Council responses to the ECA report on LEADER/CLLD
We have already published our review of the special report of the European Court of Auditors on LEADER and CLLD, in response to the overall message from the ECA that “LEADER and community-led local development facilitates local engagement but additional benefits still not sufficiently demonstrated”. We now publish the formal responses of the European Commission […]
The added-value of CLLD in Interreg
This study has been carried out by Jean-Pierre Vercruysse for Directorate D, DG REGIO of the European Commission with the purpose of better understanding the added-value of cross-border CLLD in the framework of Interreg. We publish below the Executive Summary of the study. The full report is available HERE. Community-Led Local Development The added-value of […]
European Court of Auditors report on LEADER and CLLD
The long-awaited special report of the European Court of Auditors on LEADER and CLLD has been published. The overall message from the ECA is that “LEADER and community-led local development facilitates local engagement but additional benefits still not sufficiently demonstrated”. We present below the Executive Summary and the Conclusions and Recommendations. We have also published […]
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. […]
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 […]
LDnet webinar on ‘Local Development – Lessons for the future from recent research and practice’
LDnet was for the second year a partner in the RSA’s ‘Regions in Recovery’ e-Festival, RinR22 – see below for more information. As part of RinR22 we organised a special session (Ref: SS 23) on 24 March 2022 focusing on bridging research, policy and practice in local development. The recording of the LDnet session can […]
The ‘Debate on the future of local development and LDnet’s strategy’- the full recording
The Annual Assembly of LDnet took place online on Wednesday 2 February 2022. It was attended by 40 practitioners and researchers and included a lively debate on the future of local development and LDnet’s strategy with contributions from many of the participants. The full recording of the debate is now available at this LINK. The […]