Italian Branch of the Council of European Municipalities and Regions (AICCRE), Italy.

AICCRE is the Italian Section of the CEMR, the Council of European Municipalities and Regions. The CEMR is the largest organisation of local and regional government in Europe; its members are over 50 national associations of towns, municipalities and regions from 37 countries. Together these associations represent some 100,000 local and regional authorities.

AICCRE participates in the CEMR’s fields of activity such as regional policy, transport, the environment, equal opportunities, governance. Its committees and working groups seek to influence draft EU legislation to make sure the interests and concerns of local and regional authorities are taken into account from the earliest stages of the EU legislative process.

AICCRE has its headquarters in Rome and has Regional Federations in 20 Italian Regions. Since 2007 has its office in Brussels at the CEMR’s  together with other European national associations and sections . The main association tasks are: Twinnings, Training and technical assistance for Local authorities, Press and Communication, Projects and financial management. An important tool of communication and dissemination of European issues also goes through the e-newsletter EuropaRegioni that reaches more than 7.000 users twice a week. AICCRE has large experience in projects in several EU programmes, both as LP and as PP. AICCRE is promoting the Sustainable Energy Europe Campaign in the framework of  Intelligent Energy - Europe Programme.