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IANIS+ – Innovative Actions Network for the Information Society Blogs
http://www.ianis.net/
e-Business, e-Government, e-Health, e-Infrastructure, e-Learning, e-Content, e-Inclusion, e-Mobility, e-Transport, and Regional Strategies: the IANIS.net blog network offers an innovative technology platform to bring community building services and technology awareness to the world.

 EBAN - European Business Network Angels
http://www.eban.org

ERIK (European Regions Knowledge based Innovation Network)
http://www.eriknetwork.net/
ERIK's main aim is to sustain and further develop networking and good practice exchange between European regions. ERIK Network’s objectives include: benchmarking and disseminating good practices of innovation and knowledge-based policies; supporting inter-regional networking on technological innovation related topics; co-operating with European regional networks with similar objectives to create synergies and make networking activities more efficient and better targeted

ELANET – European Local Authorities’ Telematic Network Initiative
www.elanet.org

IT4ALL - Network of Local Authorities for the Information Society
http://www.it4all-regions.org/it4all/inicioPrincipal.do
The IT4ALL Network of Local Authorities for the Information Society established by municipalities, cities and regions, local authorities associations and networks served as an instrument for the participation of local authorities in the process of the World Summit on the Information Society. The IT4ALL decentralised cooperation network is a communication platform for local authorities, open, inclusive, solidarity, based on a free joining commitment, complementary with other existing initiatives and consequent with the principles and values contained in the Bilbao Declaration of the II World Summit of Cities and Local Governments on the Information Society, Bilbao 2005.

GATE2GROWTH.COM – The Pan-European Gateway to Business and Innovation
www.gate2growth.com
From 2001 to 2006 the Initiative was supported by the European Commission under its Innovation/SMEs programme. Still today, the online Gate2Growth.com portal aims to support innovative entrepreneurs in Europe as well as to assist Innovation Professionals to improve their capacity to assist entrepreneurs by fostering networking and the exchange of experience and good practice at European level. Among others, these include early stage technology venture capital investors, managers of technology incubators, managers of industrial liaison and technology transfer. Gate2Growth.com thus provides tools, infrastructure and support services directed to innovative entrepreneurs as well as to their supporters.

 ERRIN - European regions research and innovation network
http://www.errin.eu/en/
ERRIN, the European Regions Research and Innovation Network, is a dynamic network of more than 80 EU regions and their Brussels-based offices. ERRIN facilitates knowledge exchange, joint action and project partnerships with the aim to strengthen its member region's research and innovation capacities and enhance their success in EU programmes. ERRIN also aspires to influence EU policies in order to make them respond better to the needs of European regions and, to this end, engages in debate with EU institutions and participates in EU policy consultations.

Pro Inno Europe
http://www.proinno-europe.eu/
PRO INNO Europe® is an initiative of Directorate General Enterprise and Industry which aims to become the focal point for innovation policy analysis and policy cooperation in Europe, with a view to learn from the best and contribute to the development of new and better innovation policies in Europe. The ultimate aim is to help European enterprises to innovate better and faster and to optimise and leverage complementarities between the various innovation support measures that exist throughout Europe (be it at regional, national and Community level). To achieve this, PRO INNO Europe® gives a prominent role to national and regional innovation policy and innovation support actors. PRO INNO Europe® is composed of 5 building blocks that provide an integrated policy approach to develop new and better innovation policies. Together they provide analysis, benchmarking and development tools and activities to enhance the performance of innovation policy and support measures and to further cooperation between innovation policy makers across Europe.

The Enterprise Europe Network
http://www.enterprise-europe-network.ec.europa.eu/index_en.htm
The Enterprise Europe Network brings together business support organisations from across 45 countries. They are connected through powerful databases and know Europe inside out. What's more, they have been working together for years, some even for decades. You'll be amazed at how well your local Network branch is connected in Europe, and even beyond. With more than 570 member organisations we are always close to where your business is based. Whichever Network branch you contact, we will either assist you on the spot or put you in touch with a specialised branch in your region even better placed to serve you. The Enterprise Europe Network helps small business to make the most of the European marketplace.We have 572 member organisations across the EU and beyond. They include chambers of commerce and industry, technology centres, universities and development agencies.

EARTO – European Association of Research & Technology Organization
www.earto.eu
EARTO is the trade association of Europe’s specialised research and technology organisations. Its members make a major contribution to strengthening economic competitiveness and social development in Europe by supporting product, process and service innovation in all branches of industry and services, public and private. EARTO represents the views of its members to European decision-makers. It publishes policy papers and organises task forces and briefing sessions. EARTO members sit on influential European policy bodies, including EURAB, Framework Programme Advisory Committees, and Commission expert groups.

ERNACT – European Region Network for the Application of Communication Technology
http://www.ernact.net/About/Default.aspx
ERNACT is an acronym for “European Regions Network for the Application of Communications Technology”. The regions within ERNACT have been working together since 1990 to help decentralise the benefits of the Information Society to regions within the European Union. The network is practical and project driven, and has a successful track record in assisting participating regions to participate in EU cross-border, interregional and transnational information society related programmes and community initiatives including INTERREG IIIB, IIIC and the Framework Programmes. We have long established region-friendly management structures, project development and management systems and a professional and multinational staff team located at our European network administration unit in Ireland. Member regions work together to develop ERNACT into a network of excellence, recognised at EU level, for developing and implementing regional ICT models of development.

EUREKA
http://www.eurekanetwork.org/about/history

FinNetSME – Netowrk for Regional SME Finance
www.finnetsme.org
FinNetSME, the Network for Regional SME Finance, is a project designed to encourage an intensive exchange between regional public financiers on how to improve access to finance for Small and Medium Sized Enterprises. FinNetSME gathers partners from all parts of the EU - from Spain in the West to Lithuania and Latvia in the East, from Greece in the South to Finland in the North. FinNetSME will collect and analyse data on regional financing instruments and contact points as well as on public financing structures, support services and schemes in the different regions.

Tele Regions Network (TRN)
http://www.teleregionsnetwork.org/page.asp?p=12978&l=1
TeleRegions Network (TRN) is an International Non-Profit Organisation of European Regions. Founded in 1997 by key regions from Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, The Netherlands, Finland, Sweden and the UK, TRN has been actively participating in the filed of Regional Development and Information and Communication Technologies (ICT).
Teleregions Network is being relaunched with a new structure, and an extended members base, making it more effective in an enlarged Europe, the New Programming Period, as well as more flexible to adapt to the future challenges.

 Kaleidoscope
http://www.noe-kaleidoscope.org
Non-profit association, governed by the French law of July 1st, 1901, relative to the association contract. The legal name of this association is "Technology Enhanced Learning European Advanced Research Consortium". The Association pursues the following objectives: Contribute to the shaping of scientific evolution of technology enhanced learning; Strengthen the scientific collaborations between research teams and foster integration of European research teams in the field of technology enhanced learning; Promote the excellence of European research in the area of technology enhanced learning; Raise awareness in the area toward the scientific community, policy-makers and the general public.

 IGLO – Informal Group of RTD Liaison Office
http://www.iglortd.org/
IGLO is an informal association of Brussels-based non-profit R&D Liaison Offices. The aim of IGLO is to facilitate and enhance the interaction, information exchange and co-operation between Members of IGLO, their national research systems and the European institutions on issues related to EU RTD, in particular, the Framework Programme.

INSME – International Network for SMEs
http://www.insme.org/page.asp
The International Network for Small and Medium Sized Enterprises-INSME is a non profit Association open to international membership. Its mission is to stimulate transnational cooperation and public and private partnership in the field of innovation and technology transfer to SMEs.