Projects

Projects in these areas are programmed in various formats: international symposia, seminars, workshops, debates, talks, research projects, exhibitions, cultural projects, as well as an extensive range of publications and specific studies.

6th Forum on Regional and Local Economic Development on the Western Balkans+ FoRLED 2024

Venue: Vlora

Time   : 3-6 December 2024

The main topic of this edition:

Bridging the Sustainable Blue & Green Development in Albania and Western Balkans

Organiser: Center for European Policy Studies on Regional and Local Development

Co-organizer: European Academy of Regions

We are working with partners: The Council of Vlora Region; Municipality of Vlora; University of Vlora;  Albanian Association of Regions;  Regional Council of Tirana; Macro Region  Adriatico Ionian; World Habitat;  OECD;  Environment Europe;  World Council of Oceans.

We have requested that this Forum be under the patronage of the Central European Initiative.

As always part of the forum are even transversal issues as e gender equality, climate change, integrations.

Important dates are:

REAL DEAL - Reshaping European Advances towards green Leadership Through Deliberative Approaches and Learning

Time: 02/2022 - 01/2025     

Countries involved:

Belgium, Ireland, Italy, France, Hungary, Germany, Denmark, The Netherlands, Czech-Republic

Funded by European Union  under Horizon 2020

SDGs: 2,3,5,6,7,10,13,14,15,17

Leader: European Environmental Bureau (EEB)

Partners: •  Youth Environment Europe [YEE]  •  Technische Universität Berlin [TUB]  •   NYT Europa  •   Global Climate Forum [GCF]  •  Dialogik [DIA]  •   Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS)

•     Climate Action Network (Europe) [CAN]   •   Central European University [CEU]   •   Alleanza Italiana per lo Sviluppo Sostenibile [ASviS]   •  Trilateral Research

CRLDS Role: Associated Partner

Alignment: Sustainability, Citizen Participation, Digital Democracy 

At a glance

The Western Balkans Regional and Local Economic Development Forum – FoRLED 2023

When: From 12-15 December 2023

Where: University Ismail Qemali of Vlora

Hosted by: CRLDS, Center for European Policy Studies on Regional and Local Development

Description

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 European Academy of Regions in the cities of Tirana, Elbasan, Berat and Vlora, hosted by CRLDS.

FoRLED promotes an international dialogue and shares experiences on Regional and Local Economic Development. It provides the opportunity to transform a regional alliance of actors engaged in the Western Balkans in concrete partnerships at the WB+, national, regional and local level.

Dimal Multifunksional Center- Modular Training for Startups

Time:

September 2022- December 2022

Location

Municipality of Dimal

Partner

Municipality of Dimal

Center for European Policy on Regional and Local Development_CRLDS

Founded

100% Ministry of Entrepreneurship, Albania

Municipality of Dimal

Total Budget: 20,000,000. ALL

Budghet for CRLDS: 4,000,000 lek

Description

LIFE BEWARE - Better Water Management for Advancing Resilient Communities in Europe

Time

10/2019

10 2023

Financed

European Commission, under Life Programe

Role of CRLDS

Associated partner, under Memorndum of Understanding with project Beware Project dt 8/10/2019

Description

BEWARE acts within the framework of European policies for adapting cities to climate change and aims to raise awareness on the objectives of the UN Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Development, in particular objectives 11, “Sustainable Cities and Municipalities”, and 13, “Combating Climate Change”.

ACHIEVE - Awareness of Common History for Identifying and Extending the Values of Europe

Timespan:
June 2019 – May 2022

Donors

European Commission, Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency

Program

Europe for Citizens

Sub-program

Strand 2: Democratic engagement and civic participation

For more read the Final Raport here

The project at a glance

ACHIEVE aims to develop the EU identity starting from a reflection on the common history, art and religions among cities from Central and South-Eastern Europe as a tool to fight growing Euroscepticism.

For these reasons, these are the topics at the challenges that ACHIEVE wants to face:

2nd Edition of the Institute for Girls and Women in National and International Security Policy

Organizer: Center for Regional and Local Development Studies (CRLDS)

Venue: Grand Hotel, Tirana

Time: 01 Jenuary- 30 November 2021

Funded by: US Embassy in Albania (With financial support from the US Embassy Public Relations Office in Tirana)

Overall objective: empowerment through knowledge and development of the next generation of girls / women, as proactive contributors to national and international security policies.

Context

A4EUS

 

A4EUS – Action 4 Europe of Solidarity is a project funded by the Europe for Citizens Programme of the European Union. The project involves a total of 17 partners from 12 countries (Italy, Malta, North Macedonia, Serbia, Belgium, Montenegro, Greece, Spain, Bulgaria, Poland, Estonia, Albania).

Project Duration: 01/03/2020 – 31/05/2021

Project Website: http://www.a4eus.org/ | Project Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/a4eus

Final Report   

In the summary below you can see some details about the project:

Acronym: A4EUS

Project Full Title: Action 4 Europe of Solidarity

Financing by: Europe for Citizens

Project Goals:

OPEN LECTURE: "ACCESS TO FINANCE: PROMOTING LOCAL AND REGIONAL ECONOMIC PROJECTS", by Louis Delcart

Partner:

European Policy Studies Center for Regional and Local Development

European Academy of Regions

Time: October 26, 2019

Venue: Faculty of Economics, Ismail Qemali University, Vlora

In the series of Open Lectures, part of the rubric: International Lectures of CRDLS Albania (CAIL), CRLDS in cooperation with the European Academy of Regions bring Louis Delcart on 26 October 2018, who presented the lecture:

"ACCESS TO FINANCE: PROMOTING LOCAL AND REGIONAL ECONOMIC PROJECTS",

outlining the latest forecasts, technology trends and policy announcements globally.

Luiza Hoxhaj moderated this activity and brought the topic tailored  on the conditions of Albania, through her reflections on the topic.

Beneficiaries

The workshop: “Fostering of regional and local economic development in Albania via tourism & cultural heritage”

As part of the 3rd Forum for Regional and Local Economic Development - FoRLEd 2018, organized by the Center for European Policy Studies on Regional and Local Development (CRLDS Albania) in collaboration with the European Academy of Regions (EAR-EER, Brussels), Berat Municipality and other actors of Berat District,

Partner:

Center for European Policy Studies on Regional and Local Development - CRLDS

European Academy of Regions - EAR-EAR

Time: July 30- October 31, 2018.

The seminar was held on October 25 from 10:00 am to 1:00 pm.

Venue: The seminar was held in Berat at the Prefecture's headquarters

Keynote Speakers:

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THE CERTIFICATION ON "EUROPEAN INFORMATICS PASSPORT"

Social and economic development of a country is closely related to information and communication technologies (ICT), known as the technology of general interest. ICT and broadband technologies offer the potential to overcome many unique challenges and constraints that characterize traditional rural economy. TIK is increasingly playing an important role in economic and social development of the country.

Training program for civil servants charged with advising on starting social businesses

Description

While there is already insufficient support for starting a business in terms of effective and efficient policy support, regulatory frameworks, targeted consulting and investment availability, or venture capitalists have become even more difficult as "social initiative" is still widely unknown.

However, social enterprises, given the specific roles among NGOs depending on donor funding and regular profit-oriented businesses, combine two segments that were often incompatible: social work and doing business capital is not regularly deducted from equity. of company capital. This requires a specific type of entrepreneur who engages entrepreneurs in solving social problems, e.g. in the field of education, environmental protection, employment creation for people with disabilities, or poverty reduction, or the like. As social enterprises contribute to increasing the well-being of the population, they need more attention.

Meet AlbTalents

 

Introduction

Meet – Alb Talents Project, promoted by CRDLS Albania Center, in close collaboration with local, national and international partners aims to favor a profound reflection of political, sociological and anthropological caracter on the size and shape that the phenomenon of new generations mobility and circulation over the prospect of talent is taking recently. In this project will be engaged different structures as the businesses, associations, companies or foundations that work with foreign staff or how they absorb young people who have studied abroad and how do they find the appropriate local social capital?

Through this project Vlora “will run as a national laboratory of  monitoring the phenomenon and experimenting the policies of their re-absorption. Youth, academics, experts, institutions, representatives of the business community etc will discuss topics and solutions that will be undertaken to make reversible the decision to leave the country and to convert the added value of their experience gained abroad.

All this, being convinced that only through new generations, with their energy and skills, their ability to be a bridge between the present and the future, between the territory of origin and global challenges, we can return to growth, generating development and welfare territory.

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