International Award on LED

The 2017 INTERNATIONAL AWARD ON LOCAL DEVELOPMENT is an international competition for the recognition of relevant research contributions and successful initiatives in promoting and supporting local and territorial development, particularly important and distinctive at international level.
It aims to encourage scholars, experts, young researchers, public institutions, public and private actors and businesses to improve awareness of territorial development policies, by focusing on analytic tools and processes, and enhancing the capability to diagnose and compare them at international level.

The origin of this award is directly related with an international network of researchers formed around the International Association of Economists of Latin Languages (AENL) whose president is Professor Gioacchino Garofoli (Professor at the University of Insubria, Italy). Other associations were heavily involved in the previous editions: Italian Association of Regional Science (AISRE), French Language Regional Science Association (ASRDLF), Portuguese Association for Regional Development (APDR), and the Spanish Association of Regional Science (AECR).

The 2017 AWARD is divided into the following sections:

Section "essays" is open to books and essays published as a part of a volume (journal or collective book) in the last three years.

Section "young researchers" is open to young researchers, whose doctoral thesis, presented and discussed in the last three years, is particularly innovative in its methodology and interpretive models and in analysing new relevant cases for local and territorial development that have produced effective intervention strategies.

Section "territories" is open to territories that stand out for their innovative actions that were essential for their social and economic transformation, by allowing them to overcome their backwardness, long decline and economic stagnation. The present notice is also open to those territories that have started/promoted an integrated or shared development process in one of the following issues: innovation, internationalization, human resources qualification, environmental and/or social sustainability, among others. Eligible applicants are development agencies, public institutions, private associations, public-private partnership organizations, consortia and other organizations working on the implementation of local development strategies and policies.

Section "enterprises" is open to those enterprises, both single and associated, which have developed initiatives or projects involving other actors of the territory in the following issues: innovation, internationalization, training and qualification of human resources, entrepreneurial development, social cohesion, productive chain integration, among others (territorial responsibility of the enterprise).

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