--Covers 16 countries including Spain, Germany, Poland, Portugal, Greece, Israel, Bulgaria, Australia, Japan, Vietnam, Indonesia, Fiji, Nigeria, South Africa, and Peru.
--University level courses: Local and regional development, Spatial planning, Socio-economic geography, Urban development,
Rural development, Policy development.
--will be interesting to the representatives of several disciplines: economists, geographers, urban planners and other researchers dealing with urban and rural local development