Lucio Bernardini Papalia

The Basilicata Region Brussels Antenna Office is a service provided by the Basilicata Region to the regional administration, its Directorates-General, and the main regional development stakeholders:

• businesses
• universities
• research centers
• public administration
• clusters

The Brussels Antenna pursues the following objectives:

• Develop the Basilicata Region’s internationalization strategy by establishing a liaison office with the European Union to serve as a bridge to promote and protect the interests of the Basilicata Region and its economic, social, cultural, tourism, scientific, and technological excellence.
• Promote information and assistance to the regional administration and key regional development stakeholders through knowledge of EU policies, programs, and funding;
• Participate in European networks, platforms, and initiatives to foster the exchange of information and best practices, access to funding, partner search, and the development of EU projects and joint lobbying efforts;
• Ensure synergies between ESIF funds and those foreseen by other EU programs, the networking and collaboration at European level of technological clusters and innovation ecosystems, the connection between regional smart specialization strategies and the development of new value chains in Europe.

The Brussels Antenna offers the following services:
 

Representation and Lobbying:
Support in representing the Basilicata Region to EU institutions and bodies to protect the region’s interests and promote the development of regional policies and strategies consistent with new European policies;

Information:
Monitoring and reporting on key European legislative proposals that could impact regional policies and on European programs and funding of interest to the region or local stakeholders;

Participation in networks, initiatives, or platforms between European regions:
The activities carried out within European networks, initiatives, and platforms (NEREUS, EUREGIONS4COHESION, ARA, ASA, CORAI, ERRIN, ERIAFF, PROMIS, etc.) will facilitate the exchange of information and best practices, joint lobbying, partner search, project development to attract European funding, and collaboration between European regional ecosystems.

Basilicata Region Brussels Antenna has the following objectives:

• develop Basilicata Region internationalization strategy through the establishment of an office and a support service in Europe that acts as a bridge to promote the territory excellence and in particular innovation ecosystem.
• foster information, technical assistance and training of regional development’s key players and innovation ecosystem through the knowledge of EU policies, programs and funding.
• facilitate the exchange of information and good practices, partners search and development of EU-funded international projects through participation in sectoral working groups promoted by networks between regions or European platforms to which the Basilicata Region has joined or could join (S3 THEMATIC PLATFORMS, European Cluster Collaboration Platform, NEREUS, ARA, ERRIN, ERIAFF, RIC, PROMIS, ASA, VANGUARD, GIURI, URC, ...).
• ensure synergies between the resources of the structural funds and those foreseen by other EU programs and the networking and collaboration at EU level of technological clusters and regional innovation ecosystems, the connection between regional smart specialization strategies and the development of new value chains in Europe.
•  

Priorities of Basilicata Region S3 smart specialization strategy:

• aerospace
• creative industries
• bioeconomy
• energy
• automotive and smart manufacturing

Contact:

Lucio Bernardini Papalia

Advisor to the President of the Regional Government for EU Relations

Brussels Antenna Representative Basilicata Region

Rue du Trône, 62 – 1050 Brussels

Phone: +32 (0)2 2167003

E-mail: antennabruxelles@regione.basilicata.it;

E-mail: lucio.bernardini@regione.basilicata.it

Website: https://antennabruxelles.regione.basilicata.it/;