1st SEE LEADER - international conference of LEADER/CLLD in South-East Europe

SEE LEADER is the 1^st International conference on practical and theoretical implications of the LEADER approach implementations in South-East Europe. SEE LEADER aims to recognize the uniqueness of the community-led local development (CLLD) approach for integrated territorial development in South-East Europe, demonstrating the results of past years of implementation and proactively looking at its future.

The themes of the 1st SEE LEADER Conference are as follows:

• Alternative management of LEADER/CLLD – why, for whom and by whom
• LEADER/CLLD as a territorially embedded private-public policy tool
• Role of actors in LEADER/CLLD implementation
• Social capital of LEADER/CLLD
• The innovation in LEADER/CLLD
• LEADER/CLLD fostering (dis)empowerment
• The issue of scalar governance and geopolitics in LEADER/CLLD
• LEADER/CLLD as development based on local area features and oriented to expected results (process vs. projects)
• Financial models and instruments for LEADER/CLLD implementation
• Networking and Collaboration of LAGs and other actors in sustainable integrated local development

Read the Conference Programme HERE.  Registration is OPEN until October 20.