Overview
Lobbying Costs
50,000€ - 99,999€
Financial year: Jan 2021 - Dec 2021
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 19 Dec 2016
Goals / Remit
Founded in 1992, the European Association of Economic Development Agencies brings together professionals working on economic development in Europe. During these three decades EURADA has been supporting the internationalisation of regional economic practitioners; they 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 facilityMain EU files targeted
- DG REGIO: Regional policy, regional partnerships for innovation (RPIs), interregional innovation investments (I3) initiative, 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,smart cities, seal of excellence, synergies with structural funds, widening participation, financial instruments, Horizon Europe ecosystems
- DG Connect: Digitial Innovation Hubs (DIHs)
- DG EMPL: Erasmus+, VET, skillsAddress
Head Office
Rue Montoyer 24, bte 13
Brussels 1000
BELGIUMEU Office
Rue Montoyer 24, bte 13
Brussels 1000
BELGIUMWebsite
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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). Members of Eurada's board of directors represents the association in the Dialogue with CPR partners 2021-2027 (E03802), and Commission Expert Group on Interregional Innovation Investments (E03767)Person in charge of EU relations
Data not provided by Register Secretariat due to GDPR
Person with legal responsibility
Data not provided by Register Secretariat due to GDPR
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Categories
Category
Associations and networks of public 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/
- Triple Helix Association - THA
https://www.triplehelixassociation.orgMember organisations
None declared
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Financial Data
Interests represented
Promotes their own interests or the collective interests of their members
Closed financial year
Jan 2021 - Dec 2021
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
50,000€ - 99,999€
Major contributions in closed year
None declared
Major contributions in current year
Type Name Amount Grant European Commission 445,000€ Intermediaries for closed year
None declaredIntermediaries for current year
None declaredClosed year Costs
50,000€ - 99,999€
Other financial info
None declared
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EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
Dialogue with CPR partners 2021-2027 - Group of experts on the funds established by Regulation (EU) No 2021/1060 of the European Parliament and of the Council#E03802#https://ec.europa.eu/transparency/expert-groups-register/screen/expert-groups/consult?groupID=3802 #Member #C#Civil society, SMEs#Network of SME Envoys#E02666#https://ec.europa.eu/transparency/expert-groups-register/screen/expert-groups/consult?groupID=2666 #Observer #C#Other#Commission Expert Group on Interregional Innovation Investments#E03767#https://ec.europa.eu/transparency/expert-groups-register/screen/expert-groups/consult?groupID=3767 #Member #C#Other
Groups (European Parliament)
Social economy#- 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. Every autumn Agorada+ takes place in one of the members' territories to discuss and see in practice successful implementations of regional economic policies.
EURADA organises an annual brokerage event in February-March to help the members and any other development agencies of Europe to find suitable partners for their project ideas. 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.
EURADA participates as partner in seven H2020 projects (ENTRANCES, TetRRIs, POCITYF, XPress, FrontSh1p, Agro2Circular, and DIH-World), in the EuropeAid projects (TAMSALL, IURC and IURC-Japan), and two Erasmus+ (ALLVIEW and OBEC ). 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 like the secretariat of the clusters collaboration platform.
EURADA has recently the following publications:
- Kruszelnicki, J., Gołuński, M., Ciochoń, P., Noya, M., Pelayo, E., & Z˙ yra, J. (2020). SME segmentation and regional development agencies’ innovation support measures. Regional Studies, Regional Science, 7(1), 511-531.
- Pelayo, E., Pastor, A., Kruszelnicki, J.: (2020) ‘Segmentation techniques for innovation support services’. Review of Economic and Business Studies. 12.2 (2019): 207-237.
- Kirova, M., Montanari, F., Ferreira, I., Pesce, M., Albuquerque, J.D., Montfort, C., Neirynck, R., Moroni, J., Traon, D., Perrin, M., Echarri, J., Arcos Pujades, A., Lopez Montesinos, E., Pelayo, E., (2019). Research for AGRI Committee – Megatrends in the agri-food sector, European Parliament, Policy Department for Structural and Cohesion Policies, Brussels. ISBN 978-92-846-5782-7| doi:10.2861/ 778046 | QA- 04-19-629-EN-C. http://bit.ly/MGT629AgOther 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. most of them are related to technology innovation, finance, new industries or cohesion policy
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.
Entrepreneurial support is a core activity of development agencies, and therefore, it is the main field of interest for EURADA. Representing 99% of all businesses in the EU, the SME’s role in fostering competitivenes 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)
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