International Conference on Local Development

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The INTERNATIONAL AWARD ON LOCAL DEVELOPMENT ceremony will be held in Faro (Portugal) in the framework of the International Conference on Local Development scheduled for May 25-27, 2017. Interested participants should pre-register and will be informed about the programme of the Conference.

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The conference programme will consist in a series of key-note presentations, the award ceremony, and parallel workshops, in the topics related with:

• smart specialization and local/regional development

• economic crisis and regional resilience

• the challenges for bottom-up development initiatives

• strategic planning: an overview of existing experiences

• urban and regional policies

• investment and employment for local and regional change

• rural development

• innovation and territorial development

• local productive systems

• new firm formation and regional development

• the governance of territorial development

• local and regional resources and endogenous development