Publishing
AEIDL can take charge of your written publications, from start to finish. The publication and distribution of multilingual documents is an important part of the work of AEIDL. AEIDL has published hundreds of documents (magazines, newspapers, bulletins, newsletters, technical dossiers, practical guides, directories, reports, brochures, folders, etc.), many in the 11 official languages of the European Union.
AEIDL can take charge of all stages of production of a paper-based document – design, research and documentation, writing, editing, translation, layout (including online) and printing. AEIDL can also ensure targeted distribution, to specific target groups or for specific purposes
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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 Evaluation Network for Rural Development
(January 2008) The European Commission's Directorate-General for Agriculture has chosen the EEIG "RUR-Eval", established by AEIDL and ÖIR-Managementdienste GmbH (Austria), to assist in the setting-up and management of a European evaluation expert network and to be responsible for the operation of an associated contact point. The overall aim of the European evaluation expert network is to help establish good practice and build capacity in the evaluation of rural development programmes, thereby increasing the utility of monitoring and evaluation as tools for improving the formulation and implementation of rural development policies. The evaluation expert network will rely on a "contact point", which will serve as a central information point concerning the evaluation of rural development programmes.
Client: European Commission, Directorate-General for Agriculture
Partners: AEIDL and ÖIR-Managementdienste GmbH
Expected termination: 2013/12
Contact: Maylis Campbell
InfoREGIO: Information and communication on EU Cohesion Policy
(June 2007) The European Commission's Directorate-General for Regional Policy has selected the partnership ASCii-AEIDL for a framework service contract on communication, publications and information activities in area of EU Cohesion policy. Within the partnership, AEIDL is responsible for several key publications, such as the monthly newsletter, the quaterly Inforegio Panorama magazine and thematic brochures.
Client: European Commission, Directorate-General for Regional Policy
Partners: Tipik (formerly ASCii), AEIDL
Expected termination: 2011/12
Contact: Jean-Luc Janot
The Regional Policy Directorate General’s communication framework contract
(2002) The Regional Policy Directorate General of the European Commission has assigned AEIDL a framework contract to create and diffuse its publications. Starting in 2002 for a duration of up to five years, the contract awarded to AEIDL involves the drafting, production coordination and targeted diffusion of some ten well-known editorial products including the monthly Inforegio News newsletter, the Inforegio Panorama magazine, the series of "Structural policies success stories in the Member States" brochures (presentation of European regional policy per country or subject), and various handbooks, reports and brochures.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.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.