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Partner Description

Founded in 1988 the Aragonese Association of Local Authorities, ASAEL, is a non-profit organisation devoted to defend and represent the interests of local authorities in Aragón (municipalities, districts and provincial governments). Currently, ASAEL represents 350 Local Authorities scattered throughout the region of Aragón (Spain) looking for economic and social development.ASAEL, started its course with the objective of contributing to territorial development through local co-operation and giving specific answers to the needs expressed by its associates. ASAEL participates actively with the EU Parliament, the European Commission and the Committee of the Regions of the European Union. A clear example of this is the participation of ASAEL as speaker in the several D Plan sessions, in debates about Equal Opportunities, examples of Active European Citizenship Good Practices, Town-Twinnings and Local Policies in the environmental field. ASAEL has a standing office in Brussels.Some services provides by ASAEL are the following ones:  
  • Information and Dissemination Service: Web page with a daily average number of 3,580 visits; Alert System by e-mail to an average of 2,500 contact addresses; bimonthly magazine, Sessions, Seminars, Exhibitions.
  • EU programmes service that counts upon the best material and human means managing a total of 20 projects, 12 of which are EU Projects (Leonardo da Vinci, Active European Citizenship, Town-Twinning, Woman, Youth and Culture) and two Development Co-operation projects. Participation in information and co-operation networks in Europe. 
  • Representation Service: ASAEL is achieving its objective of becoming a reference regarding EU issues.
  • Training Service that is in charge, on the one hand, of the co-ordination, supervision, fostering and execution of the different training plans. On the other hand, it carries out information campaigns, promotion and dissemination tasks through the development of sessions and seminars where experiences, demonstrations and applicability studies of NTCI, implementation of Quality Management Systems, Environmental Management Systems and languages are put in common.
  • Legal Service: ASAEL offers all its associates the possibility of an adequate legal support irrespective of their size or economic means to promote local development for a better quality in the citizens’ services. 

Main role in the project

ASAEL coordinate Working Package number 4, Improvement of finanacial procedural tools. Moreover, ASAEL realise different task as the elaboration of local and national reports, organise training courses for different target groups, implementation of the project in an educational building or dissemination activities.  

Contact details
Organisation: Aragonese Association of Local Authorities 
Responsible: Carlos Franco
Tel. 0034 976 207 528
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Website: www.asael.es