Why join?
Join around 120 regions and their stakeholders from over 20 countries in a network with a distinctive mission for connecting and empowering regional and local actors across Europe to enhance their regional innovation ecosystems. Fostering diversity and a place-based approach, ERRIN brings together members who aim to get the most out of research and innovation instruments and funding opportunities.
We are open, inclusive and bottom-up. This means that under one membership you can grant access to ERRIN services to as many of your colleagues and regional actors as you like.
We always welcome new members who wish to join our network and take full advantage of the various networking, project, and partnership opportunities that we offer. Read more on ERRIN’s missions and who we are here.
Benefits of becoming a member
ERRIN is your support for European-level engagement. Here, you define your level of involvement according to your organisation’s capacity, needs and goals. The more you engage, the more opportunities await to strengthen your innovation ecosystem from different angles in the European policy and funding landscape.
Project development
Take advantage of our project facilitation - matchmaking sessions, mappings, coffee meetings - and Project Development Tool to identify relevant funding opportunities, share project ideas, network and find project partners.
Working Groups and Task Forces
Participate in the wide range of activities - meetings, events, consultations - organised by our 15 Working Groups and Task Forces to connect, gain knowledge, exchange regional examples and showcase your views.
R&I policy
Stay up to date on the latest EU R&I policy developments from a regional perspective and contribute to our bottom-up policy work to shape policy and programmes, as we foster opportunities for regional and ecosystem actors.
Network building and collaboration
Build a network of contacts for your organisation in Brussels and across Europe. Use ERRIN for establishing and kick-starting collaboration in projects, events and other initiatives with regional members and their stakeholders.
Showcasing regional activities
Present your work on your member profile, highlight your perspectives in Working Group & Task Force activities, and upload content to the ERRIN website so that information about your events and opportunities reaches a community across Europe.
Who can join?
ERRIN brings together Brussels-based representative offices of European regional and local administrations as well as universities, educational institutions, business development and innovation agencies, and public & private bodies with a regional mandate in the area of R&I. Any other place-based non-profit organisations which play a role in the regional innovation ecosystem are also welcome to join, even without a permanent representation in Brussels.
As we highlight the value of a regional ecosystem approach in R&I, under one membership you can grant access to ERRIN services to as many of your regional stakeholders as you like, with no additional fees.
How to join?
- Contact ewa.chomicz@errin.eu, ERRIN's Policy and Engagement Manager, to signal your interest.
- Have a meeting with us to learn more about ERRIN's services and explore together how you could get the most out of them, based on your organisation’s interests and priorities.
- If you are interested in joining, fill in and sign our membership form.
- Send us back the membership form, choose your starting date & pay the first invoice.
- Welcome to ERRIN!
You can find our one-page membership form here. If you decide that you’d like to join us, feel free to fill it in and send it back to us by email or post. We understand that administrative processes to join the network may be complex and we remain open to your questions at all times.
Membership types and fees
Full membership – for organisations with a permanent representation in Brussels. Representatives of full members can be elected to the Management Board and take on the roles of Working Group or Task Force leaders.
Annual membership fee: 3665 EUR (2024)
Associate membership – for organisations without a permanent representation in Brussels. Associate members have the same rights as full members, except their representatives cannot be elected to the Management Board nor take on the roles of Working Group or Task Force leaders.
Annual membership fee: 3090 EUR (2024)
The annual membership fee is subject to a yearly indexation corresponding to the Belgian annual inflation rate (Articles of Association, art. 7.3). The new amount is fixed by the Management Board and communicated during the ERRIN Autumn General Meeting preceding the year of application.
Membership timeline, invoicing and cancellation
ERRIN membership runs for a calendar year, but you can join the network at any time. For the first year of the membership, we will invoice you pro-rata according to your starting month. In consecutive years, you will receive the invoice with the annual fee depending on the type of your membership by February, with a payment deadline of 30 days. If you require a particular procedure, we are happy to provide support.
The membership continues from year to year unless the member gives written notice of their intention to withdraw from the network. The notice needs to be given to the Secretariat at least three months before the end of the fiscal year, i.e. before the end of September. The cancellation of the membership will come into force at the end of the fiscal year in which the written notice was made.
Questions?
In case of any questions regarding ERRIN membership, have a look at our Frequently Asked Questions or reach out to ewa.chomicz@errin.eu, ERRIN's Policy and Engagement Manager. We are always happy to hear from you.