European Union Experts

UE had the objective to maintain contact and coordinate initiatives with CLENAD, developing network activities among the former DNE’s, Temporary and Auxiliary Agents of the European Commission, Parliament, Council and other EU bodies. From June 2001 till 2005 it operated with the name of FriendsofEurope and together with CLENAD has supported members in their re-integration in the original services. FriendsofEurope/EUE participated actively to the discussion of the reform of the European Commission introduced by Commissioner Kinnock. During the last years, EUE has worked for the European Commission as well as for other public bodies during with a total of more than 700 man/days performed. Our experience focus in the elaboration of communication and dissemination plans and in the assistance provided to public institutions and private entities (such as Ministries, Lags, research institutions, producers associations, farmers organizations, municipalities). In addition, EUE gained professional experience in the human resource sector, particularly evaluating skills, assessing CVs, devising training programs to strength administrative capacity. EUE participated to a various projects, mainly in the fields of agriculture, rural development, environmental protection, education and research. Moreover, it was actively involved in activities of capacity building and it organized a high number of conferences and seminars. An exhaustive list of EUE’s past projects is available here. On 2015, EUE is giving more relevance to the purpose of assisting civil society organizations to take an active role in the management and proposition of European policies, as forecasted by the European Union in the new programming period 2014-2020.