Project
The International Summer School for "Community and local development in Latin America and the Caribbean" originally emerged from the cooperative relationship established between the OECD LEED Trento Centre for local development (Italy), the Training Centre for International Cooperation (Italy) and EAFIT University of Medellin (Colombia) in collaboration with the Trentino Federation of Cooperatives and the contribution of the Autonomous Province of Trento, Italy. The main scope of the Summer School is the promotion of local development, i.e. promoting the understanding and acknowledgment by both public and private actors of the analysed territories’ capital factors (“Territorial Capital” and its conceptual dimensions) that contribute to build local development strategies. |
2019 Edition
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ParticipantsParticipants should be strongly committed to local development topics and activities. They should currently work (or at least they should have working experience) in public institutions (national, regional, provincial or local governments, development agencies, research centres, international organizations) or private organisations (foundations, co-operatives, NGOs, grassroots community organisations, non-profit entities, etc.) active in the field of local, community, economic and social development. Participants should be nationals, and residents to the date of application, of a Latin America country. |
Previous Editions
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The database collects case studies from targeted countries on the following selected topics: (available in Spanish only)
Spatial DevelopmentUrban settlements, infrastructures, economic activities and everything related to the humankind are heterogeneously spread over the territories, interacting in various way with the ecosystem in which they are inserted and contribute in generating, positive or negative, effects. Topics:
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Economic DevelopmentTaking into consideration the territorial variable in economic development induces a change of perspective and determines a change in the design of economic policies: the economic development is about the territory and its complexity and not just the businesses. Topics:
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Social DevelopmentSocial development - based on social capital – implies different perspectives, which are well represented by the selected case studies: the added value of economic system is extended to a wider concept of capital, which embraces the provision of social services or is accumulated in public investment and in social relations. Topics:
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Institutional Development and GovernanceInstitutional development and governance arise as a response to the challenge of handling the needs and expectations of a society facing increasingly complex and diversified changes. In such a context, the rigidly normative and regulatory approach of the past should be replaced with innovative tools, which may cope in a flexible way with the competing forces generated in the society. Topics:
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Send an email at summerschool@cci.tn.it.
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