Spain (Partner 2)

The Fundación Comunidad Valenciana-Región Europea (FCVRE) was created by the Valencian Region Government to promote the participation of the Valencian Region in the actions and policies of the European Union. The FCVRE has a co-operation commitment with industrial clusters, chambers of commerce, financial institutions, local development agencies, education and training institutions, research and development institutions and other relevant social players, aiming to support partnerships, both public and private in order to effectively co-operate for the success of European projects. Its technical and experienced senior staff and its fully equipped premises are a great asset to develop technical project activities and organize meetings, seminars, project workshops and presentations within reach of EU institutions, and monitoring and technical assistance on any subject related to the EU legislation and granted programmes.

Located in Valencia (Spain) and Brussels (Belgium), the venues of the Foundation are the ideal location to organize press conferences and presentations for professionals and the media. FCVRE has acquired adequate competences in the issues to be addressed by the REGIOCLIMA project, having been involved in numerous environment and climate change related initiatives, including with EU funded projects, such as: the IEE projects "Neighborhouds" concerning the involvement of citizens in the Kyoto’s Protocol fulfillment (www.energyneighbouhoods.eu); "Path2res" concerning efficient energy at a regional and local level (www.path2res.eu); the FP6 project "City mobil" Towards an advanced road transport for the urban environment concerning the development of integrated traffic solutions (www.citymobil-project.eu).

The FCVRE, has participated as partner in several EU projects such as IST, IEE, LIFE Environment, Interreg III, and it aims to become an enthusiastic partner in other European projects to help diffusing the results and to organize seminars. FCVRE has successfully participated in several INTERREG IIIC projects such as FINNETSME and RUISNET in both as dissemination partner. The FCVRE has cooperated with the Regional Government of Valencia in the lead partner coordination, management, communication and dissemination of the RFO PERSPECTIVE 2007-2013, and the 18 sub-projects approved in this strategic Regional Framework Operation that involve more that 50 institutions from 4 different European countries. Some successful examples of disseminated projects: