Local and regional development with focus on achieving vibrant and sustainabe communities in a healthier planet

Associate Professor in the area of Regional Geographical Analysis Department of Geography, University of Valencia (2007). Since 1994 he participates in competitive projects of various research programs of the EU (Framework Programmes, LLP, ESPON). Research topics relate to regional development, especially in rural areas (evaluation of development policies, public-private cooperation for development, remoteness and new factors of territorial development, integrated tourism, knowledge and territorial development). In recent years, the focus of research aims at analysing the elements and dynamics involved in achieving sustainable territorial development processes (narratives that govern the evolution of non-metropolitan territories, the role of public services in development, relations between rural and urban areas, or use of public space, among others).

In the field of public policy evaluation he has participated in various official evaluations of rural development programs, such as the interim evaluation of the LEADER II Community Initiative in the region of Valencia (1999) and the ex-post evaluation of the LEADER II Community Initiative in Europe (2003-04). He has also worked as a regional coordinator of the LEADER Observatory in Spain during the LEADER II (1996-2001).

In 2008 he founded the research group Local Sustainability - LOCSUS (www.locsus.com) within the Interuniversity Institute for Local Development of the University of Valencia (www.iidl-valencia.es). The LOCSUS Group focuses on the analysis of the elements and variables involved in the sustainable development of territories and societies, the development of methodologies for strategic planning, monitoring and evaluation of public policies (systems of indicators) and coordination and participation in local development processes. By applying strategic planning methodologies, LOCSUS carried out various analyzes, whose ultimate goal is to design a more sustainable model of territorial development, legitimized by society, covering one or several objectives to be analyzed (tourism, trade, planning Urban and industrial competitiveness, social cohesion, or the territory in general). To date, Joan Noguera has obtained 15 research contracts and/or transfer of knowledge with various government worth € 450,000 (Strategic Plans, Local Resource Valuation, Feasibility Studies, etc.). Locally he has conducted knowledge transfer projects, most of them commissioned by local or regional governments.

It has achieved an intense internationalisation of research and knowledge transfer in two main areas. On the one hand, the European projects already described and whose latest examples belong to the ESPON programs and Lifelong Learning Programme (ASPIS, EDORA, EMRA and E-CLIC). On the other hand, technical assistance and knowledge transfer in Latin America. Over the past 10 years has signed research contracts and technical assistance worth 400,000 € with the Government of Chile (SERCOTEC), the Municipality of Rancagua (Chile), and the Agency for Supporting to Micro and small Entrepreneurs of Brazil (SEBRAE) through which it has launched a series of actions. The most important is the Master on Territorial and Sustainable Vision of Development - Methods and tools for institutional action.

He has been or is a member of the Board of the Association of Spanish Geographers (2011-2014), member of the Spanish Committee of the International Geographic Union (2011-2014), member of FLACSO-Spain (since 2014), expert for the Unit for Rural and Regional Programme of the OECD (since 2012), and expert for the DG Regio of the European Commission (2015-2018). He is or has been a member of the editorial board of the journals Bulletin of the Association of Spanish Geographers (2011-2013), Revista Econômica do Nordeste Banco do Nordeste (Brazil, from January 2014), ADOZ-Leisure Magazine Study of Deusto University (since 2010), and TERRA-Journal of Local Development of the University of Valencia (since 2014).

He has directed various postgraduate training courses of the University of Valencia related to local and regional development. From 2006-2009 he headed the online master “Methods and Tools for Local Development”. Later he was director of the “Master in Cooperation for Development” (2011-2012) and Postgraduate “Diploma in GIS for professional development” (2014). Since 2013, he is the director of the “Master of Management and Promotion of Local Development”.

He has been invited to the University of Maine in the USA (1996, 1997 and 1998), University of Lancaster in the UK (1997), City University of New York (2000), Georgia Technological University in the US (2005), Leibniz Universität Hannover in Germany (2009), and Universidade Estadual Paulista in Brazil Franca (2014), among other.

Currently he is Professor in the area of Regional Geography and Director of the Institute for Local Development at the University of Valencia.

Scholar Citations. http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=2bj7gTIAAAAJ&hl=es

His current main research involves the coordination of the ESPON Project “Inner Peripheries: national territories facing challenges of access to basic services of general interest”:

http://www.espon.eu/main/Menu_Calls/Menu_Tenders/Menu_PreviousCalls/06.5.InnerPeripheries.html

ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0002-0767-656X

ResearcherID: B-4613-2015

TITLE: Improving the Impact of Public Institutions on Lagging Rural and Coastal Regions
FUNDING ORGANISATION: European Commission (III Framework Programme)
FROM: April 1995 TO: December 1996
MAIN RESEARCHER: Dr. Javier Esparcia Pérez


TITLE: Regional images and the promotion of quality products in the lagging regions of the European Union (RIPPLE)
FUNDING ORGANISATION: European Commission (IV Framework Programme)
FROM: January 1997 TO: June 1999
MAIN RESEARCHER: Dr. Javier Esparcia Pérez


TITLE: Partnerships for Integrated Rural Development in Europe (PRIDE)
FUNDING ORGANISATION: European Commission (IV Framework Programme)
FROM: February 1999 TO: January 2001
MAIN RESEACHER: Dr. Javier Esparcia Pérez


TITLE: Aspatial Peripherality, Innovation and the Rural Economy (ASPIRE)
FUNDING ORGANISATION: European Commission (V Framework Programme)
FROM: February 2001 TO: February 2004
MAIN RESEACHER: Dr. Javier Esparcia Pérez


TITLE: Supporting and Promoting Rural Integrated Tourism in Europe (SPRITE)
FUNDING ORGANISATION: European Commission (V Framework Programme)
FROM: February 2001 TO: March 2004
MAIN RESEACHER: Dr. Javier Esparcia Pérez


TITLE: Building New Relationships in Rural Areas Under Urban Pressure
FUNDING ORGANISATION: European Commission (V Framework Programme)
FROM: September 2002 TO: September 2005
MAIN RESEARCHER: Dr. Javier Esparcia Pérez


TITLE: A cognitive approach to rural sustainable development - the dynamics of expert and lay knowledges (CORASON)
FUNDING ORGANISATION: European Commission (VI Framework Programme)
FROM: September 2004 TO: September 2006
MAIN RESEARCHER: Dr. Javier Esparcia Pérez





TITLE: ESPON – European Development Opportunities for Rural Areas. ESPON Applied Research Project
FUNDING ORGANISATION: ESPON – DG Regio European Commission
FROM: August 2008 TO: Julio 2011
MAIN RESEARCHER: Dr. Joan Noguera Tur


TITLE: Tools’ Pack for an Efficient Match between Firms’ Demands, VET Offer and Human Capital Capacities (LET’S ADAPT) ES/08/LLP-LdV/TOI/149042
FUNDING ORGANISATION: DG Education and Culture - European Commission
FROM: August 2008 TO: September 2010
MAIN RESEARCHER: Dr. Joan Noguera Tur


TITLE: European Masters of Rural Animator (EMRA)
FUNDING ORGANISATION: European Commission: Lifelong Learning Programme – Erasmus Multialateral Project
FROM: November 2008 TO: September 2012
MAIN RESEARCHER: Dr. Joan Noguera Tur


TITLE: Auditing the sustainability of Urban Spaces (ASPIS)
FUNDING ORGANISATION: European Commission: Lifelong Learning Programme
FROM: December 2009 TO: November 2012
MAIN RESEARCHER: Dr. Joan Noguera Tur


TITLE: Making EU policy popular: an experiment with the European Landscape Convention (E-CLIC)
FUNDING ORGANISATION: European Commission: Lifelong Learning Programme – Transversal Programmes Kay Activity 3 Multilateral Projects (531270-LLP-1-2012-1-EE-KA3-KA3MP)
FROM: January 2013 TO: May 2015
MAIN RESEARCHER: Dr Joan Noguera

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TITLE: Processes, Features and Cycles of Inner Peripheries in Europe (PROFECY)
FUNDING PROGRAM: ESPON 2020
FROM: Abril 2016 TO: December 2017
MAIN RESEARCHER: Joan Noguera (Coordinator of the project)


CONTRACT: “Rural systems of the Central Valencian Comarcas: transformation dynamics and development policies”
ORGANISATION: Consorcio de las Comarcas Centrales Valencianas
FROM: September 1999 TO: May 2000
MAIN RESEACHER: Dr. Javier Esparcia Pérez


CONTRACT: LEADER II Ex – Post Evaluation in the European Union
INSTITUTION: DG AGRI - European Commission
FROM: March 2003 TO: Decembre 2003
MAIN RESEARCHER: Dr. Javier Esparcia


CONTRACT: Study on employment in rural areas. Demographic and employment trends (SERA)
INSTITUTION: European Commission (DG Agriculture)
FROM: January 2005 : TO: January 2006
MAIN RESEARCHER: Dr. Joan Noguera



CONTRACT: Monitoring and Evaluation of the local development programme Cullera Impuls
INSTITUTION: Local Council of Cullera (Spain)
FROM: July 2008 : TO: July 2011
MAIN RESEARCHER: Dr. Joan Noguera


CONTRACT: Analysis of the territorial impact of the Innovation Valley in the Central Mediterranean Coast of Spain
INSTITUTION: REgional Government of Valencia
FROM: May 2011 TO: December 2011
MAIN RESEARCHER: Dr. Joan Noguera

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