"Implementing CLLD across the ESI Funds": Edinburgh, UK - 8-10 December 2015.

This first FARNET transnational seminar of the new programming period will help to support the Managing Authorities (MAs) of the European Structural and Investment (ESI) Funds in implementing the CLLD approach, and to foster cooperation to ensure the most efficient use of the funding available. The event will take place in Edinburgh, Scotland, from the 8th to 10th December 2015.

The possibility of supporting CLLD has now been extended to all the ESI Funds. Uptake under the EAFRD and the EMFF is quite significant already, while the ERDF and ESF are now also adopting this approach and this is expected to provide an important boost to the impact of EU funding at local level. CLLD has an important role to play in addressing many of the challenges currently facing Europe, and projects and initiatives developed in this context could benefit from appropriate interventions from more than one fund. The seminar aims to assist MAs in launching their CLLD programmes. It will also seek to strengthen cooperation between ESI Funds at EU level, and between MAs at national and regional level, with a view to encouraging a better integration of the funds locally.

In the coming months, FARNET Flash will provide regular updates on CLLD developments across the EU.