We have experience of developing locally-orientated regional development strategies, as well as gaining funding for such strategies and actions, particularly through the EU Structural Funds. We have also expertise relevant to the introduction of the Structural Funds to Central and Eastern Europe, and the pre-accession instruments that mirror these instruments. As well as the funds themselves we have been actively involved in the establishment of relevant local and regional institutions.

We have done work in the UK on local projects in South Tyneside and Hartlepool, using our wider experience for the benefit of communities nearer to hand.