This Summer School offers the opportunity to learn the principles, strategies, and applied skills necessary to equip policymakers and practitioners to be able to design, implement, and measure participatory and inclusive local economic development (LED) enabling environments, policies, strategies, and projects. In the current economic climate, it is more important than ever that every possible lever is used to improve growth economic inclusiveness, and accountability. This course will share local economic development strategies, tools, and instruments that participants will be able to use to improve their sub-national economies.
This is the first course of its kind run by the Central European University and offers global best-in-class faculty who are not promoting any specific 'tied' approach to LED. The course takes an interdisciplinary approach starting with a distance learning familiarization component, which will comprise several readings and opportunities to share knowledge. The main component is a two-week residential course based in Budapest, Hungary.
The first week's main focus will be on understanding the intellectual underpinnings of participatory local economic development, concepts, and tools. The second week will be more concerned with practical application, case studies debates, and accountability activities. Every day will comprise a mix of Plenary sessions and Practice labs providing a lively mixture of activities including seminars, workshops, presentations, discussions, case studies, teamwork, quizzes, debates, worked examples from across the world, assignments, and 'afternoon sofa conversations'. Participants will be offered a choice between two elective thematic events:
(i) A Master-class in LED in oil, gas, and mining-rich areas - How to maximize opportunities and minimize threats to Local Economies or a (ii) A Master-Class - Nuts and Bolts of Implementing Local Economic Development projects.
All participants will undertake a Study tour in Hungary, and students before the program and graduates after will have access to and opportunities to contribute to a permanent online knowledge hub and remain networked with this class and further classes.
The course aims to attract participants from across the world and across different organizations to maximize peer-to-peer learning and exchange.
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