Webinar on how to create jobs in the digital sphere
On January 28th, as part of the preparations for the V World Forum on Local Economic Development, which will be organized in Cordoba, Argentina in May 2021, a webinar was held entitled "Opportunities for job creation through the digital revolution". ORU Fogar was able to coordinate this seminar as it had already dealt with the topic during its annual meeting at the end of 2020 when the Digital Campus of the region Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes was presented. On this occasion, a university for 5,000 students was presented focusing on digital training. This is the region's major commitment for the near future with the aim of making Lyon the leading digital center in Europe.
Provincial governments of Ecuador protest against the Quito government's failure to pay
Since December 16, 2020, the provincial governments of Ecuador have been protesting across the entire country to show their rejection of the central government's failure to pay its debts.
Conversations to rethink the principle of subsidiarity
The third Positive Conversation initiative, which responded to President Sekkal's invitation to reflect, speak and write about post-Covid-19 governance, was an affirmation in favor of subsidiarity, to believe in the European Union and to work on horizontal policies between regions.
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A territorial approach to SDOs in the framework of long-term COVID-19 recovery strategies
The COVID-19 pandemic poses unprecedented challenges to sustainable development. The OECD's 2020 Economic Outlook highlights that the prospects for a possible exit from the crisis have increased, with encouraging news on progress toward an effective vaccine, but that the short-term prospects remain uncertain. Assuming that new spikes in the virus are contained, and with the hope that a widely available vaccine towards the end of 2021 will help to build confidence, a gradual but uneven recovery in the global economy is expected to occur over the next two years. This year, following an astronomical drop in global GDP, the latter is expected to increase by nearly 4¼ per cent in 2021 and by a further 3¾ per cent in 2022 (OECD 2020).
