The group focuses on the study of territorial government and management at the local or regional level, including new practices of governance and territorial development planning at the local level, the analysis of public policies and territorial cooperation, regional and European development policies and regional political geography. The Local Government and Sustainable Territorial Development Research Group was born from the conjunction of two research groups, both within the IIDL (Sustainable Local Development and Local Government), which share the common objective of improving local development. 

The new research group brings together the dynamics, equipment and past results to continue working with the aim of promoting innovation in management processes and local government, the structure of local public administrations, local government management and citizen participation, and the study of territorial management at local and regional level. The researchers of the group participate jointly in different national and international research projects (EU -HORIZON, ESPON, INTERREG-, and Latin American); in editorial projects and publications on the subject, as well as in training and teaching activities in official degrees of Spanish and Latin American universities. 

The Research Group is a team that integrates leading researchers from different fields of knowledge in different areas, with the aim of promoting knowledge transfer and innovation in the processes of management and local government. Its participants have extensive experience in the field of local administration and are leaders in the field of human resources management in this area. The Group actively collaborates with various entities and institutions (city councils, regional administrations) in the exchange of best practices in working models related to local government. The group also participates in the implementation of an Observatory on Local Government, as an instrument for the collection of information on this level of government, and in the CAMPUSHABITAT5U project. 

Its coordinator actively participates in the new Master in Planning and Management of Local Development of this UVEG, aimed at graduates who can make a significant contribution to local development, economic and employment promotion and, in general, the sustainable development of the different territories, and coordinates on behalf of the University of Valencia), and the Inter-University Master in Development Cooperation, which offers high-level training in development cooperation. 

He is also coordinator of the Area of Territorial Governance, Spatial Planning and Environment of the IIDL, whose objective is to contribute to a better understanding of territorial dynamics and new forms of planning and governance of territorial and sectoral policies at different scales, in order to promote sustainable development.

Collaborator

Enrique Peiró Sánchez-Manjavacas - Universitat de València 
Pablo Pinazo Dallenbach - International University of Valencia 
Diana Ximena Tutistar Rosero - Universitat de València 

General public administration activities