Seminars
Seminar 11
Sustainable rural communities: local approaches to job generation and learning and skills development
Santiago de Compostela, Spain, 1–2 June 2006
In the case of Santiago we shall be turning our attention more specifically to the issues arising as the EU begins to move its agricultural and rural development policies onto a new terrain. This seminar will not be restricted to the CSF Objectives but will search for good practice in policy frameworks across the board. We will, once again, have a focus on past experience with ESF mainstream programmes in seeking out good practice in designing policy frameworks for the rural setting. The presentations for the event will be targeted on those programmes that address the most pressing problems that rural areas face with a particular focus on enterprise and entrepreneurship and learning and skills. They will range across both the NMS and the EU15. What we will be looking for, in particular, will be examples of local agents working together over a long period of time with their government counterparts to produce a measurable difference in the development trajectory of rural areas. The particular focus of the seminar will be on the dimension of this that has to do with employment—both in the creation of new enterprises and jobs and in the preparation of the workforce for the challenges of the modern world through learning and skills development programmes.
Following the same process as for the other seminars, we shall start by using background materials to identify those critical rural development issues that will be paramount over the next period (to 2013). The second stage will be to filter this list to pick out the problem areas that we believe local approaches will best serve. The aim will be to have a wide-ranging seminar portfolio but to be highly selective in choosing only the best and most exciting examples of policy programmes with a local component in place and well supported.
LEADER and its offshoots and modifications provide us with a widely recognised model for helping to handle the sort of changes we expect to be prominent. Once again, we need to go back to the original roots to remind ourselves of the starter conditions that made LEADER so successful. We also have many examples from previous IDELE events (not just Rovaniemi) that were based in rural settings and that showed how locally initiated and regionally/centrally supported programmes could achieve good results with limited funding. The topic areas for Santiago are more difficult to pre-figure at this stage and we shall be coming forward with clearer ideas at a later stage.
Seminar documents
- Agenda [pdf, en, 55kb]
- Background note [pdf, en, 57kb]
Examples of good practice
- Galicia, Spain – AGADER: Galician Rural Development Agency [pdf, en, 38kb]
- County Limerick, Ireland – Ballyhoura Development [pdf, en, 55kb]
- Daugavpils District, Latvia – Baltic States Rural Partnerships Programme [pdf, en, 37kb]
- Barnim, Germany – Barnim Health Region [pdf, en, 37kb]
- Bulgaria – National Rural Development Network [pdf, en, 37kb]
- Comminges, France – Comité de Bassin d’Emploi du Comminges [pdf, en, 49kb] [pdf, fr, 59kb]
- Coruña, Spain – DELOA project [pdf, es, 107kb]
- Netherlands – Dutch National Rural Development Network [pdf, en, 39kb]
- Netherlands – Dutch rural policy [pdf, en, 31kb]
- France – E-dentités solid@ires [pdf, en, 39kb] [pdf, fr, 43kb]
- Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Germany – Einfach Anfangen (Simply Start) [pdf, en, 48kb]
- Belgium – Service Regional de Prevention la Teignouse-ASBL [pdf, fr, 400kb]
- Italy – LEADER experience [pdf, en, 31kb] [pdf, it, 32kb]
- Spain – Local action groups [pdf, es, 42kb]
- Belgium – PRAXIS: making rural entrepreneurship work [pdf, en, 52kb]
- Sweden – Rural renewal project [pdf, en, 35kb]
- Netherlands – STIPO project [pdf, en, 37kb]
- Italy – Tools for supporting entrepreneurship [pdf, en, 58kb]
- United Kingdom – Market and coastal towns intiative [pdf, en, 43kb]
Seminar presentations
- Local employment development in the EU and EU funding: a brief overview (Dominic Rice) [ppt, en, 170kb]
- Local employment development: setting the scene (James Rampton, ECOTEC) [ppt, en, 139kb]
- Current issues in the rural communities of Europe (Gerry McAlinden, rural expert) [ppt, en, 139kb]
- Market and coastal towns initiative (James Hassett, Chief Executive, Market and Coastal Towns Association) [ppt, en, 427kb]
- Local approaches to employment development: England National Policy Context (Alistair Johnson, Senior Economic Adviser, Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs (Defra): Commission for Rural Communities) [ppt, en, 593kb]
- Ballyhoura (Kathleen Biggane, Job Club Leader and Facilitator, Ballyhoura Development Ltd) [ppt, en, 381kb]
- Integrated approaches to inclusion and enterprise in rural Ireland (Maura Walsh, Manager, IRD Duhallow Ltd) [ppt, en, 305kb]
- Territorial approaches to local employment development in south-west France (Luc Duquenne, Airelle Développement, Limousin) [ppt, fr, 187kb]
- Baltic States Rural Partnership Programme (Ināra Stalidzāne, Director, Konsultanti Ltd.) [ppt, en, 1.54mb]
- Leader + Val do Limia-Terra de Celanova (Manuel Carrillo López, Gerente, GAL ADIM – Leader+ Val do Limia-Terra de Celanova) [ppt, es, 3.4mb]
- The Barnim Health Region Project (Wilhelm Benfer, Head of Office, Barnim County, County Development Office) [ppt, en, 269kb]
- Regional budgets in Brandenburg (Jens Siebert, Regional Advisor, LASA-Brandenburg) [ppt, en, 5.53mb]
- Rural policy in an urbanized country (Alberthe Papma, Policy Coördinator Rural Development, Ministry of Agriculture, Directorate of Rural Affairs) [ppt, en, 303kb]
- Subsidiarity in practice: the Netherlands (Henk Kieft, Coordinator, ETC-Netherlands, Dutch Network Rural Development and Leader+ Network) [ppt, en, 78kb]
- STIPO project (Geert Kurvers, Project Coordinator, Foundation DBF) [ppt, en, 182kb]
