Reinventing Europe
through Local Initiatives
AEIDL (European Association for Innovation in Local Development) is a Brussels-based association that learns from and fosters community-led innovation to revitalise local communities from across Europe.
Policy Unit
Projects
AEIDL’s activities encompass sustainable local development in its broader sense. This includes sustainable development and the environment, territorial development (rural, urban, fisheries areas, regions), employment and social affairs, support to territorial authorities and businesses, and the promotion of democracy and citizenship.
Services
With extensive experience in the coordination of networks, projects and programmes, AEIDL is well positioned to provide a wide range of services to clients in European and internationally, taking account of linguistic and cultural diversity.
Latest news
The Green Public Procurement Helpdesk and the CO-RESP project need you: surveys on sustainable procurement and on employment of persons with disabilities and procurement
AEIDL is partnering with ICLEI to implement the Green Public Procurement Helpdesk on behalf of DG Environment, in collaboration with DG GROW. The Helpdesk has expanded its scope to cover sustainable public procurement (SPP). SPP is a process by which public...
What is at stake for Europe’s rural areas?
Following the recent approval of the EU Committee of the Regions’ Opinion on “Enhancing Cohesion Policy support for regions with geographic and demographic handicaps (Article 174 the Treaty on the Functioning of the EU)”, our Senior Expert, Rural and Territorial...
From Pisa to Montpellier via Ghent, AEIDL working to bring Europe´s rural areas to the spotlight
AEIDL is contributing to and indeed co-organising a range of major conferences to present the state of the art of the Horizon projects in which we are presently involved. The latter part of 2022 and the beginning of 2023 is witnessing the start of in-person (or...
New year, new projects!
While the AEIDL team will be busy with the closure of SHERPA and DESIRA, new projects keep coming our way. First and foremost, last December the European Commission entrusted to AEIDL the setting up and management of the EU Rural Pact Support Office. This Office will...