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LoGov · Local Government and the Changing Urban-Rural Interplay

Horizon 2020 — Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

Duration
2019-02-01 → 2024-09-30
EU contribution
€1,311,000
Participants
18
Scheme
MSCA-RISE

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Results in brief

Local Government and the Changing Urban-Rural Interplay

What is the impact of increasing population movements from the countryside to cities and towns on local public services? How can urban and rural local governments provide and finance these services in times of urbanisation? Does the merging of smaller municipalities really entail efficiency gains and how do other solutions like inter-municipal cooperation fare in comparison? What is urbanisation’s impact on the relations of local authorities with other government levels and how does it affect people’s opportunities for political participation? These are only some of the questions that the LoGov project seeks to answer. What they all have in common is their growing urgency as a result of fundamental demographic changes. The phenomenon of urbanisation sparked the emergence of metropolitan areas, on the one hand, and the depopulation of rural areas, on the other. According to World Bank data, between 1960 and 2017, the share of rural population worldwide fell from 67 to 45 per cent. These trends inevitably entail lasting changes in the interplay between urban and rural areas. It is our ambition to provide solutions for local governments to address this changing urban-rural interplay and to strengthen collaborative research through staff exchange between the project partners. LoGov identifies, evaluates, compares and shares innovative practices in five major local government areas: • Local responsibilities and public services • Local financial arrangements • Structure of local government • Intergovernmental relations of local governments • People’s participation in local decision-making

Data: CORDIS, © European Union

Project objective

LoGov aims to form an international and intersectoral training and research network in order to provide best-fit practices for local governments to address the changing urban-rural interplay and manage its impacts. As a global Consortium composed of eight European and nine non-European partners, we seek to (1) to identify, evaluate, compare and share practices in five major local government areas (local responsibilities, local finances, local government structure, intergovernmental relations and people’s participation); (2) to encourage the effective application of the best-fit practices by local governments; (3) to strengthen international and intersectoral collaborative research; (4) to enhance the career perspectives of the staff involved by increasing their mobility both within the academic and the non-academic sectors and between these sectors.LoGov’s methodological approach relies on a comprehensive comparative analysis that draws on findings from 15 countries or wider regions on six continents, the extensive involvement of local policy-makers through local government associations and a multi- and interdisciplinary approach that is facilitated by the Consortium’s expertise in four disciplines (public law, political science, public administration and economics).The training strategy of LoGov is based on both secondment-related and network-wide activities. The strategy combines well-established events with newly developed transferable and research skills training, including open science, communication and research transfer training.To achieve the maximum impact, LoGov’s dissemination strategy targets both the wider scientific community and local policy-makers. It does so when sharing the key training result of widening career perspectives and the main research result of providing best-fit practices for local governments. These contribute to making them more resilient in light of changing urban-rural relations, a primary societal challenge of our times.

Original text from CORDIS.

Participants

  • ACCADEMIA EUROPEA DI BOLZANO · BolzanoCoordinatorItaly
  • ADDIS ABABA UNIVERSITY · Addis AbabaEthiopia
  • COUNCIL OF EUROPE - CONSEIL DE L'EUROPE · STRASBOURG CEDEXFrance
  • JAWAHARLAL NEHRU UNIVERSITY · New DelhiIndia
  • KDZ - ZENTRUM FUR VERWALTUNGSFORSCHUNG · WienAustria
  • LUDWIG-MAXIMILIANS-UNIVERSITAET MUENCHEN · PlaneggGermany
  • NALAS RESEAU DES ASSOCIATIONS NATIONALES DE POUVOIRS LOCAUX DE L EUROPE DU SUD EST · STRASBOURGFrance
  • NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE PUBLIC COMPANY LIMITED BY GUARANTEE · SingaporeSingapore
  • SOUTH AFRICAN LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION · PRETORIASouth Africa
  • THE UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO · ONTARIO - LONDONCanada
  • UNIVERSIDAD AUTONOMA DE MADRID · MadridSpain
  • UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE GENERAL SAN MARTIN · San Martin Buenos AiresArgentina
  • UNIVERSITE DE FRIBOURG · FribourgSwitzerland
  • UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY · SydneyAustralia
  • UNIVERSITY OF THE WESTERN CAPE · Cape TownSouth Africa
  • UNIWERSYTET WARSZAWSKI · WarszawaPoland
  • XIMPULSE GMBH · BERNSwitzerland
  • ZDRUZENIE NA OPSTINI ZAEDNICA NA EDINICITE NA LOKALNATA SAMOUPRAVA NAREPUBLIKA MAKEDONIJA-ZELS SKOPJE · SKOPJENorth Macedonia

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Data: CORDIS, © European Union