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AGORADA 2025: Regional Development in Challenging Times

Mark your calendar for 20 and 21 May 2025, and join us in Brussels for our main annual event: AGORADA 2025: Regional Development in Challenging Times.

This year’s edition of AGORADA will take place:  

  • On 20 May afternoon, on the premises of Umbria Region in Brussels – Rond Point Schuman 14, 1040; 
  • On 21 May 2025 at Atelier 29 –Rue Jacques de Lalaing 29, 1000. 

Held under the motto “Regional Development in Challenging Times”, AGORADA 2025 will offer attendees the opportunity to discuss:

  • The future of regional development policy and crucial role of Regional Development Agencies in the upcoming post-27 Cohesion Policy;
  • How Regional Development Agencies support the development and deployment of emerging technologies, hereby contributing to the timely fulfilment of Europe's broader technological and industrial transformation goals
  • The crucial role local and regional actors play in guaranteeing Europe's open strategic autonomy, by enhancing resilience to trade disruptions and driving efforts in re-industrialisation, raw materials, energy and food security, and defence.

Furthermore, during AGORADA, EURADA will present an analysis of the results of a survey carried out in November 2023 in close collaboration with the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), which asked European Regional Development Agencies to provide insights on their main activities and services, areas of strategic interest, and key challenges.

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