Barcelona

About the centre

EIPA Barcelona was created in 1996 through an agreement between EIPA and the regional government of Catalonia.

In 2008, EIPA-ECR operated with a staff of 20 people. Together, they realised 111 activities, including 45 seminars, which attracted 1.481 participants.

EIPA Barcelona is also the Programme Management Unit for two regional Euromed programmes: Euromed Training of Public Administrations (2004-2009) and Euromed Justice II (2008-2010). ECR has solid expertise in assisting Neighbour and Accession countries in creating the capacity necessary for the management of European Union programmes.

Tailor-made courses

On the bases of the core modules, EIPA Barcelona develops tailor-made courses for clients, notably regions and cities in Europe, with which a cooperation agreement has been established. It also develops new areas of activity beyond these established fields.

Research and consultancy works

The regions and cities in Europe have constantly been gaining an increasingly substantial role in the European integration process and are taking their territorial development and strategic steering within this context very seriously. In order to meet the specific needs of regions and cities in the European Union, EIPA provides – in Barcelona or elsewhere – tailor-made training and development activities, research and comparative analysis between territorial administrations, networking, and dissemination of best practices for cooperation.

We offer activities in three areas:
• Multilevel governance and EU legislation: analysis of the tools and mechanisms for effective participation and involvement of the regional and local authorities in the policy-making cycle, adequate impact assessment, effective transposition of European rules, subsidiarity control, and implementation of laws with high territorial relevance.
• Public administration: support for enhancing the Europeanisation and political positioning of regions and cities within the European context, including institutional and administrative capacity building, evaluation of public policies, eAdministration and quality management in the regional and local public sector, as well as networking skills.
• Regional development in the EU: tools and practical experiences for using networks, regional policies, developing project strategies for EU programmes and funds in order to place your region in the European landscape and contribute to its competitiveness, growth and prosperity in line with the EU 2020 Strategy. 

EuroMed and external projects

Since 2002, the EIPA Centre in Barcelona has been carrying out training programmes for the public administrations of the Mediterranean Partners in the framework of the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership. The Centre runs three Euro-Mediterranean programmes in the framework of the EU, two of which ended in 2009. EIPA Barcelona has solid expertise in assisting Neighbour and Accession countries in creating the capacity necessary for the management of European Union programmes.

The centre is regularly commissioned by different European institutions, networks of states, regions or cities in Europe to conduct research on those new developments in the European integration process which are of major interest for the sub-state level.