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  • Contemporary Pathways of European Local and Regional Development

    Contemporary Pathways of European Local and Regional Development

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    The concept of local (in a broader sense also regional) development should be deliberately conceived in a rather flexible interpretation that allows for a wide scope of overlap with other related disciplines. Local development generally refers to the transformation and change of a locality, usually with a view to improving one or all of the following areas: material and social prosperity, economic performance, well-being and opportunities for residents, knowledge and circulation of ideas, availability of technologies, resilience to shocks and adverse events, external relations, internal...

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  • Sustainable Urban Development: The Role and Effects of the Urban Development Fund in Slovenia

    Sustainable Urban Development: The Role and Effects of the Urban Development Fund in Slovenia

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    The urban development fund is planned to finance sustainable urban projects in Slovenia with financial instruments such as loans, guarantees, shares and mezzanine loans. The purpose of the fund is to meet the needs for investments in urban development, which would not be profitable on the market, but have significant development potential. The fund can work in different ways, including a combination of EU funds. The fund will finance projects such as site restoration, water supply, waste management, sustainable mobility, digitization, restoration of cultural heritage, etc. Financing will...

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  • Cybersecurity in the Visegrad Group Countries

    Cybersecurity in the Visegrad Group Countries

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    To ensure a high level of cybersecurity, the legislator, both at the level of the European Union and within individual states of the Visegrad Group, has introduced certain solutions to adequately protect information systems, imposing an obligation to take measures to secure these systems against unauthorised interference. Incidents can significantly reduce the performance of information systems due to their vulnerabilities. Therefore, any duties connected with countering incidents which may compromise cybersecurity must be adequate to the importance of tasks performed using these...

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Cover for Contemporary Pathways of European Local and Regional Development Contemporary Pathways of European Local and Regional Development
Simona Kukovič (ed), Ivan Radević (ed)
March 1, 2024
Cover for Sustainable Urban Development: The Role and Effects of the Urban Development Fund in Slovenia Sustainable Urban Development: The Role and Effects of the Urban Development Fund in Slovenia
Borut Vojinović, France Križanič, Vasja Kolšek, Žiga Jere (Author)
December 1, 2023
Cover for Cybersecurity in the Visegrad Group Countries Cybersecurity in the Visegrad Group Countries
András Bencsik, Mirosław Karpiuk, Miroslav Kelemen, Ewa Włodyka (Author)
August 7, 2023

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