1247 | 816 | OPERATION AND FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES OF URBAN CLLD COMMUNITIES IN HUNGARY, WITH SPECIAL REGARD TO COHESION REGIONS | Péter Zombori – Saidi Feyrouz-Ahlam

CLLD is a territorial development tool that complements development resources at local level, in line with the EU Regulation and the conditions of the 7th priority of the spatial development operative program (TOP). Its main principles are bottom-up, local funding and management, networking and linking, and an integrated approach. It provides an opportunity for communities in a given city to participate in the shaping of local development strategy through self-organisation and to raise awareness and regenerate local society._x000D_
In Hungary, cities with county rights and towns with a population of at least 10,000 are eligible to participate in CLLD, but the CLLD programme was defined as a separate priority in the TOP, so municipalities in Central Hungary were not eligible for funding. In 2016, 98 local action groups started their operation in Hungary. Action Groups are composed of representatives of the public, civil and private sectors in the municipality concerned, but no single sector can represent more than 49% of the local action group._x000D_
In our research, we want to investigate how specific the Hungarian CLLD policy is in Europe, what kind of local urban action groups have been established, what is the composition of the action groups, and what proportion of the members of the action groups represent all sectors of the municipality. On the other hand, we consider it an important question to examine the resource allocation characteristics of Hungarian action groups (how many and what size of local applications they manage, what is the composition of the membership and the working structure, which types of funding objectives are given priority). The expected results of the research may be useful for the preparation of decisions by regional development actors and for the operation of project management organisations in the possible new programming period.

Péter Zombori – Saidi Feyrouz-Ahlam
University of Debrecen, Hungary.
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