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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 […]

‘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 […]

EU Cohesion Policy in non-urban areas

A new study by Stefan Kah, Neli Georgieva and Liliana Fonseca of EPRC, carried out for the REGI Committee of the European Parliament, looks at the role of EU Cohesion Policy in rural areas. The study analyses the challenges of these areas and discusses the extent and thematic orientation of rural Cohesion Policy funding. The […]

LDnet special session at the Third Joint EU Cohesion Policy Conference in Zagreb

This event has been postponed due to the Covid-19 pandemic and will be rescheduled for early 2021. The Third Joint EU Cohesion Policy Conference 2020, “Maximising the Opportunities for Cohesion Policy in Challenging Times”, will take place on 11-13 May 2020 in Zagreb. LDnet has proposed a Special Session on “Social Innovation and Local Development […]

The European Parliament’s role in cohesion policy since the Lisbon Treaty

This new study was commissioned by the European Parliament’s REGI Committee and was carried out between April and July 2019. On 4 December 2019, it was presented by its authors, Haris Martinos and Serafin Pazos-Vidal, and was discussed by the REGI Committee. The study highlights the crucial role of the European Parliament in supporting a […]

Re-thinking local development policies in times of polarisation

This book, Regional and Local Development in Times of Polarisation, edited by Thilo Lang and Franziska Görmar, contains contributions from 32 academics on “re-thinking spatial policies in Europe”. It is part of the New Geographies of Europe series published by Palgrave. The book takes its starting point by considering a threefold polarisation within the EU: […]

LDnet joins the Cohesion Alliance

The LDnet association has joined the Cohesion Alliance.  LDnet is actively supporting a strong and effective EU Cohesion Policy beyond 2020 and is participating in the debate on appropriate ways for supporting CLLD as part of the Cohesion Policy – see recent posts. The Cohesion Alliance was launched during the EWRC 2017.  On 11 October, […]

RELOCAL conference: How to strengthen the involvement of places and communities in European cohesion policies

The international research project ”Resituating the Local in Cohesion and Territorial Development–RELOCAL”(2016-2020), funded under the H2020 Programme of the European Union organised its first scientific conference on 14-15 February 2018 in Barcelona, Spain. The broad topic of the Conference was Spatial Justice in Europe, and addressed issues such as the effectiveness and the perception of […]

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