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1st ECN training "Demystifying Alternative Finance: From Crowdfunding to Cryptocurrencies"
1st ECN training "Demystifying Alternative Finance: From Crowdfunding to Cryptocurrencies", May 22-23, 2018 | LOCATION: Brussels, Belgium. Within the last years, early-stage funding has witnessed a small revolution that has the potential to fully change the financial world as we have come to know it. It started some years back, when the first crowdfunding platforms were launched, when...
In the northeast of Haiti, ADELNEH moves its first steps
The local economic development agency of the northeast of Haiti, ADELNEH, is taking steps towards its structuring and promotion to provide a better accompaniment to the development structures of its territory. In this sense, the LEDA has inaugurated a new headquarters in the border city of Ouanaminthe, has developed local economic development forums and is implementing a BANKADEL Haiti solidarity microcredit for the local population.
Enbekshi-Kazakh value chains’ actors make progress in the elaboration of territorial strategies
Enbekshi-Kazakh District, Kazakhstan - As a following step after the application of the ILS LEDA RESCO methodology (September 2017), KIP International School and ILS LEDA have prepared the 4 draft documents of competitive and sustainable development strategies for the value chains of Apple, Tomatoes and Pepper, Soya and Milk of the Enbekshi-Kazakh district. Between the 26th of February and the 6th of March, these drafts documents...
Specialized at distance course in Local Economic Development in Colombia
Within the framework of the European Union's program "Strengthening Territorial Competitiveness from the local economic development in Colombia" named CET and the agreement between REDADELCO and ILS LEDA, the specialized distance course "Principles, processes, governance, policy and instruments in local economic development" managed by the UNAD (National Distance University) of Colombia began...
OECD on local economic development policies
The debate and the experiences about local economic development public polices are today rich of different points of view, approaches, and results. In order to have clearer ideas about what is happening, it is useful to go through a OECD study, named: A Review of Local Economic and Employment Development Policy Approaches in OECD Countries: Case Studies of Regional Economic Development. This review is part of a series of reports...
IDEASS website results in 2017
IDEASS is an international cooperation initiative partner of ILSLEDA and aiming at strengthening integrated, sustainable and participatory territorial development processes by promoting innovations that have been successfully used in other areas and countries. During 2017 the IDEASS website was visited in 222 different world countries, registering 236.815 contacts and 622.314 viewed documents To learn more please...