We are happy to inform you that our academy was again involved in the sixth Forum on Regional and Local Economic Development in Western Balkans+ FoRLED 2024, organized in Vlora, Albania, between December 5 and 8, 2024.
Our colleagues Louis Delcart Nelu Neacsu participated, Nelu did the opening speech and Louis made a special presentation for the Forum.
More details about the forum and guest lecture can be found here.
The Western Balkans Regional and Local Economic Development Forum – FoRLED is part of an open working process, launched in 2016, following a fact-finding mission and a series of meetings, Open Lectures, and City Conferences with the European Academy of Regions in the cities of Tirana, Elbasan, Berat and Vlora, hosted by CRLDS.
The forum is a continuous process, which culminates annually with an event at the Western Balkans level. National and regional forums, local events and training activities are an integral part of this process.
The forum is a platform for dialogue on key issues in this area. It will analyse how our approach to regional and local development stands as an operational and strategic approach to harmonizing development policies in the Western Balkans with European ones and preparing our countries for full EU accession and integration. Its potential stems from the involvement of many senior executives at different levels of government (community, national, regional and local level) as well as researchers, experts, the private sector, the academic world, civil society and others. They will work together to stimulate policies for sustainable regional and local economic development to reach their final implementation on the ground.
The forum has a multidisciplinary approach and intends to bring together, every year, scholars from abroad range of disciplines including anthropology, demography, economics, law, psychology, sociology, geography, development studies, innovation, health sciences, political science, international relations and other related disciplines with a focus on regional economic development. Inter-disciplinary research and comparative perspectives are particularly encouraged.
…history: The 1st Forum for Regional and Local Economic Development – FoRLED 2016 held in the Hall of Vlora City, on 14 October 2016 and was supported by the Municipality of Vlora, CRLDS and the Government of Flanders.