Access to the official webpage and the social networks Role: Directly-elected EU body with legislative, supervisory, and budgetary responsibilities Members: 720 MEPs (Members of the European Parliament) President: Roberta Metsola Year established: 1952 as Common Assembly of the European Coal and Steel Community, 1962 as European Parliament, first direct elections in 1979 Location: Strasbourg (France), […]
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European Border and Coast Guard Agency
Access to the official webpage and the social networks Overview Role: Frontex helps EU countries and Schengen associated countries manage their external borders. It also to helps to harmonise border controls across the EU. The agency facilitates cooperation between border authorities in each EU country, providing technical support and expertise. Director: Fabrice Leggeri Established in: 2004 Number of […]
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Agency for Support for BEREC
Access to the official webpage and the social networks Overview Role: Provide professional and administrative support to the Body of the European Regulators of Electronic Communications (BEREC) Director: László Ignéczi Set up: 2010 Number of staff: 27 Location: Riga (Latvia) The BEREC Office is an EU agency providing professional and administrative support to BEREC, the Body of European Regulators for […]
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European Union Agency for Railways
Access to the official webpage and the social networks Based in France, the ERA is helping to integrate European railway systems by making trains safer and able to cross national borders without stopping. Since 2006, the ERA has: worked to develop economically viable common technical standards and safety measures and targets in cooperation with the rail sector, national authorities, EU […]
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European Innovation Council and SMEs Executive Agency
Access to the official webpage and the social networks The Agency implements the European Innovation Council and manages other EU programmes focusing on SME support, innovation and the single market. The Agency is responsible for developing and implementing the European Innovation Council and manages other EU programmes in the fields of SME support, […]
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European Research Executive Agency
The European Research Executive Agency is a funding body for research and innovation. It manages EU research grants. The REA is a funding body set up by the European Commission to manage EU programmes. The lifetime of an executive agency is limited and linked to the length of the programmes they manage. A more detailed legal framework for executive […]
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European Union Satellite Centre
Access to the official webpage and the social networks Overview Role: supports the Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) by providing services based on space assets and collateral data Director: Sorin Ducaru Partners: European External Action Service, European Commission, European Defence Agency, European Space Agency and other institutions and international organisations Established in: 2002 (Western European Union Satellite Centre […]
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European Research Council Executive Agency
Access to the official webpage and the social networks The Executive Agency for the European Research Council manages EU programmes on research. Mission The ERC’s mission is to encourage the highest quality research in Europe through competitive funding and to support investigator-driven frontier research across all fields, on the basis of scientific excellence. The […]
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European Union Agency for the Space Programme
Access to the official webpage and the social networks Overview Role: EUSPA manages public interests related to the European Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) programmes EGNOS (European Geostationary Navigation Overlay System) and Galileo, the Earth observation (EO) programme Copernicus, and the European Union Governmental Satellite Communications (GOVSATCOM) programme Executive Director: Rodrigo da Costa Partners: European Commission, European […]
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