Leiedal

Leiedal is an intermunicipal organization that supports the broad socio-economic and spatial development of the 13 municipalities in the south of West-Flanders (in Belgium). The city of Kortrijk is its capital. Kortrijk is a 20 minutes drive away from the French city of Lille (Rijsel).

The region is strongly urbanised in the north, around the E17 highway from Antwerp to Lille in France. A population of 277.000 living in an area of about 550 km², illustrates this high density. Nevertheless there’s a lot of open space in the greener south, in the interfluvium between the rivers Schelde and Leie.

The region has one of the most dense networks of organisations, governments and institutes, civil society, … involved in regional development. One of the main axes of development is entrepreneurship. In the region about 10.000 companies, mainly SME’s, are active. In the past there was an important flax and textile industry. Nowadays many future-orientied companies are active world wide in many different product categories, although the textile industry is still important. Leiedal is an intermunicipal organization that supports the broad socio-economic and spatial development of the 13 municipalities in the south of West-Flanders (in Belgium). In partnership with the 13 local governments, Leiedal aims for a sustainable development of the region, into an optimal area to live and to work in. Leiedal's main activities are economy, e-government, urban development, living and housing, environment, mobility.

Web: http://www.leiedal.be

Twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/leiedal

LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/leiedal

Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/user/Leiedal