AEIDL
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AEIDL is the European Association for Innovation in Local Development (Association Européenne pour l'Innovation dans le Développement Local). It adopted this new name in June 2022, prior to which it was called the European Association for Information on Local Development/Association Européenne pour l'Information sur le Développement Local.
It was founded in 1988 and is based in Brussels. As of 2020[update] its members are 31 individuals from 12 European Union countries who are involved in and expert on local development. Its activities include carrying out projects to promote local development, and implementing contracts for public authorities, especially at EU level. It employs approximately 20 staff. It is a non-profit organisation operating as a social enterprise and devotes its trading surpluses to the furtherance of its objectives, which are:
- the promotion of social Europe in a spirit of integration;
- the facilitation of transnational co-operation by means of exchanges, contacts and partnerships among persons and organisations;
- the creation, management and broadening of transnational networks of physical and legal persons, especially those having the object of economic, social and cultural development;
- activities of information, study and research, technical assistance, publishing and communication ancillary to the objects mentioned above.