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.
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 analyze how our approach to regional and local development stands as an operational and strategic approach to harmonizing development policies at the Western Balkans with European ones and to prepare our countries for full EU accession and integration.
Its potential stems from the involvement of a large number of 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.
During the previous editions of FoRLED, we had the participation of lecturers, panelists and speakers from the European Academy of the Regions, from the Committee of Economy and Social Affairs, from the Committee of the Regions, from OECD, CPMR, Environment Europe, Economic Institute of Zagreb, University of Padua, Tito Majonescu University of Bucharest, Wordl Wide University of Economics of Sofia, Free University of Brussels, University of Oxford, University of Tetova, Faculty of Economics of the University of Skopje, From Legaambiente, CNVP, Habitat World, University of Banja Luka, University Ismail Qemali of Vlora, Agriculture University of Tirana, etc. Association from the 6 countries of the Western Balkans, representatives of local authorities, governments representatives as well as from the private sector and the media, etc.
CRLDS and our partners have the extraordinary pleasure to invite you to the 5th Western Balkans+ Regional and Local Economic and Local Economic Growth Forum 2023 -FoRLED 2023!
The 5th edition of the Regional Economic Development Forum and Local -FoRLED 2023 will be held on 12-15 December 2023 in the city of Vlora.
The 5th Western Balkans Regional and Local Economic Development Forum - FoRLED 2023, will be again a three-days event on regional and local economic development policy in the Western Balkans organized by CRLDS Albania, in partnership with the European Academy of Regions, The University Ismail Qemali of Vlora, Municipality of Vlora as well the Regional Council of Vlora, including relevant regional and international stakeholders, resulting in regional and local policy recommendations. In this edition we will have as new partner the Project EU4Green, based in Vienna, Austria.
The main topic of the FoRLED 2023 will be:
“Growing Challenges for Sustainable Development of Regions and Cities in Western Balkans +”
Agenda
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Speakers
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Forum website
https://crlds.org/regional-and-local-development-forum/
To register, click the link:
https://crlds.org/forumi-i-zhvillimit-rajonal-dhe-lokal/#contact