Event management
AEIDLcan take care of all the planning and organising of your event,whatever the form it may be.
The networking of local development players requires the organisation of meetings, conferences, workshops, seminars, symposiums, etc. This is one of AEIDL’s key areas of expertise. Since its creation in 1988, AEIDL has organised hundreds of events, ranging from 20 to 2000 participants, in Brussels and in many other areas of the European Union. AEIDL’s role includes planning the content of such events and providing logistical support, alone or in partnership with local operators.
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FARNET Support Unit
(May 2009) AEIDL and Grupo Alba (associated as the "DevNet" EEIG) have been assigned by the Directorate-General for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries of the European Commission to be the "Support Unit" of the Fisheries Areas Network ("FARNET") from 2009 to 2014.
This FARNET Support Unit will bring animation, thematic and technical expertise as well as administrative support to the Commission, groups and other relevant actors / bodies concerned by the implementation of the fisheries operational programmes and in particular of their priority axis 4.
Client: European Commission, Directorate-General for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries
Partner: Grupo Alba
Expected termination: 2014/12
Contact: Serge Gomes da Silva
LIFE Programme
(January 2009). AEIDL is assisting the European Commission's Environment Directorate with the communications aspects of the LIFE programme (LIFE+ and LIFE III). AEIDL is responsible for 14 communication tasks, which include the production and circulation of thematic and best practice publications, the development and maintenance of the LIFE website, including maintaining the LIFE project database, and the organisation of seminars and events. The objective is to disseminate the results of LIFE projects, to facilitate the transfer of experience and know-how to specific target groups, and to generally raise the profile of the LIFE programme. The LIFE team at AEIDL includes 15 environment and communications experts, with expertise in nature and the environment, journalism, graphics, web design, webmastering, database development and management, and project management.
From 2005 to 2009, AEIDL, as part of the ASTRALE EEIG, also assisted the European Commission with the communication aspects of the LIFE III programme. And from November 2001 to June 2005, AEIDL, again as part of the ASTRALE Consortium, assisted the European Commission with the communication aspects of the LIFE-Environment programme.
http://ec.europa.eu/life/
Client: European Commission, Directorate-General for Environment
Expected termination: 2013/12
Contact: Eamon O'Hara
European Citizens' Panel
Having initiated an innovative project for citizen panels, the Foundation for Future Generations decided to entrust AEIDL with the role of operator for the coordination of its European Citizens’ Panel.The project aims to enable a broad spectrum of citizens from across Europe to obtain information, meet decision makers, experts and resource people to then draw up and disseminate proposals for the future of rural areas in Europe. They will notably be used by the relevant European and regional authorities to guide them in the definition of new directions for agricultural and rural development policies for the 2007-2013 period and beyond.
The project specifically sets out to:
1. Work in a European perspective, rooted in the diversity of local realities
2. Provide decision-makers with an opinion and a supplementary decision-making tool.
3. Create exchanges between citizens and politicians through the development of a forum for dialogue
4. Incite and nurture public debate
5. Contribute to learning and participation.
How? Action will be conducted on two levels, regional and European:
1. Creation of around ten regional panels made up of “ordinary citizens” chosen at random in line with the diversity of the population. Each panel will receive information through experts and resource people and will formulate proposals.
2. Delegates from various regional panels will meet to form a European panel and draw up an opinion and recommendations which will be sent to European institutions and diffused widely throughout the civil society.
EQUAL
Since December 2001, AEIDL has assisted the European Commission in the organisation of European networks promoting the exchange of experiences and the diffusion of innovative practices in terms of enterprise spirit.This objective, which falls within the EQUAL Initiative, is aimed more specifically at:
- opening up the process for business creation to everyone, by providing the necessary tools to start up a business;
- identifying and making use of new job creation possibilities, in both urban and rural areas;
- promoting the social economy (the third sector), particularly services of public interest, by focusing on the improvement of the quality of employment.
By bringing together stakeholders in the field, project holders, experts and political decision makers, the thematic networks concerned should identify new methods to combat all kinds of discrimination and inequalities in relation to the job market, circulate best practices and contribute to the development of the European Employment Strategy (EES).
This framework contract runs for a period of eight years (2001-2008). The technical assistance provided to the EQUAL Unit of the Employment Directorate General of the European Commission (DG EMPL) takes the form of reports, drafting articles, coordinating workshops, collecting and analysing data on projects and taking part in meetings, etc.
Communication and dissemination of the results of the LIFE programme (2005-2009)
(2005) The European Economic Interest Grouping, ASTRALE, to which AEIDL belongs, is assisting the Environment DG of the European Commission in the context of its LIFE programme for the 2005-2009 period. In this respect, AEIDL is in charge of communication work, which involves the creation and circulation of a series of targeted publications, compiling and updating the LIFE website and organising seminars and other events. The objective is to network project holders in order to facilitate the transfer of experience and know-how and to promote the LIFE programme to the general public.Launch of the “Practical handbook on green public procurement”
The European Commission’s Environment DG entrusted AEIDL with the organisation of a one-day event to launch the "Practical Handbook on Green Public Procurement". The event took place on 29th October 2004.http://europa.eu.int/comm/environment/gpp/
LEADER I Coordination Unit and LEADER II European Observatory
After organising the LEADER I Coordination Unit between 1992 and 1995, AEIDL operated as European Observatory for Rural Development under the LEADER II Community Initiative (Links between Actions for the Development of the Rural Economy) from 1995 until 2000.
The main task of the Observatory was to facilitate innovation transfer and exchanges of experiences and knowledge between rural actors and territories in the European Union, notably by creating and diffusing methodological tools. In this context, European wide studies have been completed, a large number of seminars and conferences have been organised in rural areas throughout Europe and some thirty multilingual publications provide updates on various methodological aspects of interest to Local Action Groups and administrations, along with a monthly newsletter and a quarterly magazine.