European Association for Innovation in Local Development - Association Européenne pour l'Innovation dans le Développement Local
Budget
€3,993,145
EP Access
2
accredited persons
Staff
12
1.35 FTE
EU Grants
€829,853
Mission & Goals
AEIDL is rooted in local development and the social economy. Its purpose is to learn from and foster community-led innovation to revitalise local communities and bring about a more cohesive Europe. AEIDL is actively engaged in the formulation of EU policy recommendations and the organisation of policy forums with EU officials and political representatives such as MEPs in order to advance integrated, innovative, sustainable and inclusive local development policies across the EU (see www.aeidl.eu/forum/). Through EC service contracts, we deliver, jointly with partners, key programmes such as the EU CAP Network and FAMENET, and have delivered in the past their predecessors ENRD and FARNET. These programmes, as well as our ongoing role in supporting the EU Rural Pact, aim to make EU policies better known by local stakeholders across the EU, but also provide a bottom-up avenue for them to feed into the EU decision-making process.
EU Legislative Interests
Long Term Vision for Rural Areas and Rural Pact Common agricultural policy (CAP) EU action on Smart Villages EU Forest Strategy 'Farm to fork' strategy Common fisheries policy (CFP) EU Cohesion Policy Regulation (EU) 2021/1057 on ESF+ Regulation (EU) 2021/1060 laying down common provisions on EU funds EU Urban Agenda Territorial Agenda of the EU EU biodiversity strategy for 2030 EU Textile Strategy Green New Deal Circular Economy Action Plan Directive 2014/24/EU on public procurement Action Plan of the European Pillar of Social Rights Social Economy Action Plan EU Action Plan on integration and inclusion EU Better Regulation including Territorial Impact Assessment and Rural Proofing
Communication Activities
AEIDL is frequently engaged in communicating with the EU and advocating better EU policies for local development. For instance, we recently organised a Rural Digitalisation Forum and the DESIRA Final Conference, where we invited key European Commission and Joint Research Centre officials as well as MEPs and CoR members to discuss a new roadmap for rural digitalisation that highlight the existing gaps in EU support on rural digitalisation. We carried out similar activities involving EU officials in several events we organised, for example under the MOVING project (quality products in mountain areas, among others) or the SHERPA project (next steps for the Long Term Vision for Rural Areas). We also provide specific policy recommendations such as our response, on behalf of the BEATLES project partners to the EC public consultation on sustainable food systems. More widely, AEIDL regularly produces in-depth analysis, think pieces and recommendations that we disseminate via our social media and mailing lists to EU and national decision makers and officials. (see www.aeidl.eu/news/category/opinions)
Interests Represented
Does not represent commercial interests
Member Of
AEIDL does not belong to any other organisation, however we have close working relationships with other networks and organisations active in local development and local innovation.
Organisation Members
AEIDL consists of individuals, namely experts in local development, some of whom helped set up this organisation in 1998 to advocate for better EU policies for local development. We are not as such a network of national bodies, but a pan-European NGO whose members are individuals keen to support AEIDL on a voluntary basis. In turn, many of our members are affiliated with other networks such as LDNet, which is another voluntary organisation of local development experts. For more information about our members, we refer you to the latest version of our statutes: https://www.ejustice.just.fgov.be/tsv_pdf/2022/12/13/22147384.pdf.
Commissioner Meetings
No recorded meetings with EU commissioners.