ABOUT
The Brussels Office of ADR Nord-Est represents the North-East Region of Romania in the EU.
We work with counties, municipalities, universities, businesses, learning facilities, and other organizations.
The Brussels Office was founded in 2010 and aimed to ensure North-East Romania a strong voice in the EU and to endorse that our region is a proactive player that benefits from all the opportunities and that promotes itself as a European region open to the world.
TEAM
Our team is very vibrant and diverse in background and expertise.
THE REGION
The North East (Nord-Est) is a development region in Romania that comprises the following counties: Botosani, Iasi, Vaslui, Bacau, Neamt, and Suceava.
The area of our region is 36,850 km2, slightly bigger than Belgium, and the population is roughly 3.3 million.
In the past 10 years, in our region, the GDP per capita, the quality of infrastructure, and the economic complexity have all increased consistently, following the national trend.
In 2019, Romania made it to the high-income group of countries, from a formerly an upper-middle-income, according to the World Bank.
According to the ATLAS of Economic Complexity, powered by Harvard’s Growth Lab, Romania ranks as the 25th most complex economy in the World, improving 5 positions in the ECI ranking between 2008 - 2018.
Iasi, the main city of North East, was ranked the 2nd in TOP 10 Tech Cities of the Future 2020/21 – Cost-Effectiveness.
Avenue Louise 54
1050 Brussels
Belgium
Str. Lt. Draghescu, nr. 9
610125 Piatra Neamt
Romania
AR and VR for storytelling in cultural heritage is a project idea of the Intermunicipal Community of the West, OESTECIM, which brings together 12 Portuguese municipalities in the West of Portugal - http://www.oestecim.pt/. Significado is a Portuguese public sector support organization for consultancy and management of European projects. OESTECIM is interested in finding partners for augmented/virtual reality projects for built or ruined Cultural Heritage, which can be scanned in 3D. The digitization of Cultural Heritage gives us the virtual scenario where we will simulate, also in 3D or video/films with real actors and extras, either historical events that took place there, or the recreation of legends or other stories with a real basis, which will be integrated into a storytelling that attracts new audiences (local community, tourists, students, researchers, etc.). The attraction of new audiences will be done by digital means (website, social networks, etc.)
The ERRIN Management Board has appointed a new Chair and two Vice-Chairs, who together form the Troika. New Troika will lead the Management Board in 2022-2023.
On 28 September, Pirita Lindholm, Director of ERRIN, spoke on the role of European networks in supporting internationalisation in R&I and presented ERRIN's activities during a panel debate on innovative regions. The occasion provided an opportunity to reach out to all Romanian Development Agencies, staying in line with one of ERRIN's priorities for 2021 - tapping into underutilised R&I potentials.
The Municipality of Suceava (Romania) is interested in joining as a partner in project proposals to be submitted under the Town-twinning and Network of Towns calls.
Be.CULTOUR is one of ERRIN’s new projects led by the Italian Institute for Research on Innovation and Services for Development. It will mobilise five ERRIN members from the Cultural Heritage and Tourism Working Group to offer real-life settings to co-create and test human-centred innovations for circular cultural tourism.
We are happy to announce that over the last three months, ERRIN has submitted nine new project proposals that cover all its thematic clusters. Here is a short overview of each of the projects related to our Low Carbon and ICT Clusters.