Overview
Lobbying Costs
37,500€
Financial year: Jan 2018 - Dec 2018
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
1 Fte (4)
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
0
High-level Commission meetings
2
Lobbying Costs over the years
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Info
European Association of Development Agencies (EURADA)
EU Transparency Register
827929825168-90 First registered on 20 Dec 2016
Goals / Remit
Founded in 1992, the European Association of Economic Development Agencies brings together professionals working on economic development in Europe. Through our large network of more than 70 members in 18 countries of the European Union and beyond; regional development agencies (RDAs), and their economic development practitioners can network, advocate, and participate at a European Union wide level.
A Development Agency is an entity that carries out an economic development mission characterised by the search of the collective or overall interest of an area (and not corporative or sectorial), and that is significantly linked with a local, metropolitan or regional authority with respect to management, financing or missions.
A Development Agency is a designated public meeting place and support for local economic actors with a dynamic structure oriented to support consolidated enterprises and potential entrepreneurs. EURADA is their international well established facility allowing interaction with other peers of regional economic development across Europe and beyond. This meeting place and space created by EURADA and dependent on its members engagement offers opportunities.
EURADA, as a network and connector, offers opportunities to all forms of economic development practitioner embedded in development agencies, private business partners, corporations and European institutions. By bringing together highly skilled professionals, who answer the specific needs of firms, EURADA plays a role in Europe’s economic growth and job creation.Main EU files targeted
- DG REGIO: Regional policy, specially the smart specialisation strategies and cohesion funds
- DG GROW: Industrial modernisation platform, Defence and dual use industry, Watify, ReConfirm, Small business act, SME envoys, European network of defence-related regions, access to finance, EEN, IPR-Helpdesk, Internationalisation, Cluster support, social innovation and social enterprises
- DG Research: Regional aspects of research and innovation, seal of excellence, synergies with structural funds, widening participation, financial instruments, Horizon 2020 policy support facility
- DG Connect: Digitial Innovation Hubs (DIHs)Address
Head Office
Rue Montoyer 24, bte 13
Brussels 1000
BELGIUM -
People
Total lobbyists declared
4
Employment time Lobbyists 25% 4 Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
1
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
No lobbyists with EP accreditations
Complementary Information
The director of the association attends the expert groups established by the European Commission. He participates as speaker and moderator in events organised by EU institutions.
Two experts from the secretariat take part as public systematically in the meetings organised by the intergroup of social economy. The President of Eurada has participated in one of the meetings of the SMEs envoy (E02666). A member of Eurada's board of directors represents the association in the ESIF structure dialogue meetings (E03226).Person in charge of EU relations
Mr Esteban Pelayo Villarejo (Director)
Person with legal responsibility
Mr Esteban Pelayo Villarejo (Director)
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Categories
Category
VI - Organisations representing local, regional and municipal authorities, other public or mixed entities, etc.
Subcategory
Transnational associations and networks of public regional or other sub-national authorities
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Networking
Affiliation
- IEDC- International Economic Development Council (USA)
https://www.iedconline.org/
- INSME - The International Network for Small and Medium Enterprises
http://www.insme.org/
- Licence Executive Society LEX Benelux
https://les-benelux.org/
- Regional Studies Association
https://www.regionalstudies.org/Member organisations
The updated list of members is accesible in the following link: http://www.eurada.org/network/members/
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Financial Data
Closed financial year
Jan 2018 - Dec 2018
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
37,500€
EU grant income for closed financial year
298,658 € (Source: FP7, CIP, Interreg Europe, COSME, Erasmus+)
Other financial info
To estimate this amount we have considered the share of salaries that it is employed in direct and indirect lobbying (25% of staff costs), the costs related to the participation in Committees established by the European Commission, the participation in the meetings of the intergroup of social economy of the European Parliament, the organisation of events directly linked with EU policies (in particular the annual AGORADA event organised in spring) and other indirect costs related to office and administrative expenses
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EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
Structured Dialogue with European Structural and Investment Funds' partners group of experts#E03226 #http://ec.europa.eu/transparency/regexpert/index.cfm?do=groupDetail.groupDetail&groupID=3226 #Member #C#Network of SME Envoys#E02666 #http://ec.europa.eu/transparency/regexpert/index.cfm?do=groupDetail.groupDetail&groupID=2666 #Observer #C
Groups (European Parliament)
- Social Economy Intergroup
Communication activities
The annual biggest conference of the year is AGORADA that takes place o exchange best practices among the members and establish direct contacts with new initiatives from the European Commission. The last Agorada2019 was related to social enterprises and was organised in Brussels. Every autumn Agorada+ takes place in one of the members' territories to discuss and see in practice successful implementations of regional economic policies. Agorada+2019 took place in Kajaani on the subject of defence industries, in cooperation with Kainuun Etu Oy.
EURADA also organises an annual brokerage event in January-February to help the members and any other development agencies of Europe to find suitable partners for their project ideas. Most of the project ideas are connected to the call peer learning for innovation agencies (H2020-INNOSUP-05). A summer course in the first week of July helps the members to acquire the skills to prepare successful proposals for H2020, Interreg and other competitive progams
Offering an insight to EU policymaking is not limited to solely innovation in SMEs, rather EURADA is also present and active in informing its members on developments and opportunities concerned with financial instruments for development agencies. Having already co-organised a workshop in February 2018 for European Industry Week on the subject of EFSI platforms, where professionals working on regional economic development projects and their financing in Europe discussed inter-regional investments facilitated by the new Investment Platforms under the ‘Junker Plan’, EURADA provides updates on the acitivites that development agencies carry out to provide funds to projects and companies using revovling funds and guarantees.
EURADA participates as partner in two H2020 projects (OaSIS and TeRRItoria), and in three Interreg Europe (SocialSeeds, Beyond EDP, ESSPO and ScaleUp). Those projects help facilitate the exchange of knowledge on support for SMEs, improves policymaking in SME policy instruments embedded in EU territories, and refines EU Research and Innovation Strategies (RIS3) to join up different economic actors with an aim of increasing innovation. The European Association participates as well in European tenders and service contracts that make valuable contributions to its members International Urban Cooperation programme to establish regional pairings in RIS3 with Latin America, the Watify campaign of the European Commission on Industrial modernization, the ReConfirm initiative to establish co-investment agreements among regions and DIHelp to establish a better management of Digital Innovation Hubs.Other activities
Each year the Board of Directors of the Association defines the priorities of work to focus the impact of the activities of the association and to organise the activities of the association. During 2019 there are 4 vertical priorities (technology innovation, finance, new industries and cohesion policy), and an horizontal priority that lead to the innovation inside of the agencies to be more efficient.
EURADA works across a spectrum of thematic priorities. From arranging critical matchmaking opportunities for the development agencies of Europe, to following the latest policy developments in regional development at an EU level, EURADA’s engagement and time is always dedicated to following, and organized by, the pre-defined priorities of its Board Members.
Innovation in SMEs is a core activity of development agencies, and therefore, it is a core activity for EURADA. Representing 99% of all businesses in the EU, the SME’s role in fostering an innovation focused economy is a priority of the EU. Afterall, a broad base of SMEs is very important for the economic development, wealth and sustainability of a region. At the European wide level, there is a drive to help create a business-friendly environment and boost SMEs' competitiveness on a regional level. EURADA is therefore involved in several aspects of EU initiatives and undertakings to help SMEs.
Meetings
Meetings
2 meetings found. Download meetings
The list below only covers meetings held since November 2014 with commissioners, their cabinet members or directors-general at the European Commission; other lobby meetings with lower-level staff may have taken place, but the European Commission doesn't proactively publish information about these meetings. For more information about which commissioner is responsible for which portfolio, check out this link: https://commissioners.ec.europa.eu/index_en All information below comes from European Commission web pages.
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Date 10 Jun 2021 Location Brussels - video conference Subject Just Transition policy. Progress to date and new perspectives. Cabinet Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Frans Timmermans Portfolio European Green Deal Attending - Aleksandra Tomczak (Cabinet member)
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Date 22 Jan 2018 Location Brussels, Belgium Subject Transition between the current programming period and the next one DG Regional and Urban Policy Attending - Marc Lemaître (Director-General)