This is the second in a new 2025 series of LDnet webinars. It is open to practitioners, researchers and policy administrators. All the LDnet webinars are free. Registration is open HERE.
The topic of this webinar is extremely topical following the publication of the Commission’s communication on this matter on 11.2.2025 – see HERE – and the potentila implications for local development in rural and urban areas – see HERE.
Title (provisional): “A new architecture of EU policies and funds post-2027 – what place for local development?” (part 1)
Date: Wednesday 19 February 2025
Time: 16:30 CET (to be followed by the LDnet Annual General Assembly at 17.45)
Moderator: Joanna Storie, LDnet and Estonian University of Life Sciences
Speakers:
– Stefan Kah, LDnet and University of Strathclyde
– Serafin Pazos Vidal, AEIDL
– Urszula Budzich-Tabor, LDnet and AEIDL
This webinar is planned by Urszula Budzich-Tabor and is organised by Alistair Adam Hernandez and Haris Martinos.
Description:
The new College of Commissioners was designated by the European Parliament on 27 November 2024. Within a few months of designation, the new Commission is expected to present its proposals for EU budget and policies for the post-2027 period, and there are already signs of major changes compared to previous and current periods. The webinar will be held shortly before the publication of the Commission’s proposals, and it will offer an opportunity to reflect on:
– the role of territorial and place-based approaches in the EU policies post-2027,
– different scenarios of change, especially concerning the future Cohesion Policy and the place of rural development,
– the expected consequences of these changes for local communities across Europe.
This first event will mainly focus on lessons from the past and expectations for the future and it will involve short contributions by three policy experts, followed by an exchange with the audience. LDnet will continue the discussion on this crucial topic in a second webinar, which will be organised after the policy proposals have been published for consultation, probably in April-May 2025.
Draft agenda:
16.30 – 16.35: Welcome by Joanna Storie (LDnet and Estonian University of Life Sciences)
16.35 – 16.45: Introduction – The process and timeline for adopting the post-2027 EU policies: what do we know so far? (Serafin Pazos Vidal, AEIDL, and Urszula Budzich-Tabor, LDnet and AEIDL)
16.45 – 16.55: Key challenges of Cohesion Policy – why and how is it going to change? (Serafin Pazos Vidal)
16.55 – 17.05: Territorial tools in a changing Europe – how were they applied in the past and what might emerge? (Stefan Kah, University of Strathclyde)
17.05 – 17.15: The shaping of EU rural policies – what role for rural communities? (Urszula Budzich-Tabor)
17.15 – 17.40: What consequences for local development of the future design of EU policies? Panel discussion and opening up to participants (moderated by Joanna Storie and Peter Ramsden? tbc)
17.40 – 17.45: Closing remarks (Joanna Storie)
Followed by:
17.45 – 18.30: LDnet General Assembly (LDnet members, potential members and friends of the organisation welcome to attend!)
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