Overview
Lobbying Costs
500,000€ - 599,999€
Financial year: Jan 2023 - Dec 2023
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
1.75 Fte (2)
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
0
High-level Commission meetings
1
Lobbying Costs over the years
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Info
Vanguard Initiative (VI)
EU Transparency Register
683831940758-35 First registered on 22 Dec 2020
Goals / Remit
The Vanguard Initiative, founded in 2013, is driven by a political commitment by regions to use their smart specialisation strategies to boost new growth through bottom-up entrepreneurial innovation and industrial renewal in European priority areas. Thirty nine regions are now part of this initiative.
The Vanguard Initiative seeks to lead by example in developing interregional cooperation and multi-level governance to help regional clusters and eco-systems to focus on priority areas for transforming and emerging industries.
Vanguard regions seek to exploit complementarities identified in smart specialisation strategies in order to develop worldclass clusters and cluster networks, in particular through pilots and large-scale demonstrators. These investments will bolster the competitive capacity of Europe to lead in new industries for the future and develop leading markets that offer solutions for common challenges.Main EU files targeted
- The Common Provisions Regulation on the European Structural and Investment Funds (ESIF)
- The European Territorial Cooperation programmes (Interreg)
- The EU programme for the Competitiveness of Enterprises and Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (COSME) and the Single Market Programme
- The European Fund for Strategic Investments (EFSI) and InvestEU
- The Digital Europe Programme
- The Interregional Innovation Investment (I3) Instrument
- The General Block Exemption Regulation and Important Projects of Common European Interest (IPCEI)Address
Head Office
square de meeus 1
Brussels 1000
BELGIUMEU Office
square de meeus 1
Brussels 1000
BELGIUMWebsite
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People
Total lobbyists declared
2
Employment time Lobbyists 100% 1 75% 1 Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
1.75
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
No lobbyists with EP accreditations
Complementary Information
None declared
Person in charge of EU relations
Data not provided by Register Secretariat due to GDPR
Person with legal responsibility
Data not provided by Register Secretariat due to GDPR
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Categories
Category
Associations and networks of public authorities
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Networking
Affiliation
N/A
Member organisations
None declared
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Financial Data
Interests represented
Promotes their own interests or the collective interests of their members
Closed financial year
Jan 2023 - Dec 2023
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
500,000€ - 599,999€
Major contributions in closed year
None declared
Intermediaries for closed year
Name Amount idea consult 25,000€ - 49,999€ Intermediaries for current year
None declaredClosed year Costs
500,000€ - 599,999€
Other financial info
None declared
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EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
Commission Expert Group on Interregional Innovation Investments#E03767#https://ec.europa.eu/transparency/expert-groups-register/screen/expert-groups/consult?lang=en&groupID=3767 #MEMBER #C#Academia/Research#Industry#SMEsCommission expert group "Industrial Forum"#E03743#https://ec.europa.eu/transparency/expert-groups-register/screen/expert-groups/consult?lang=en&groupID=3743 #MEMBER #C#Academia/Research#Industry#Other#SMEs
Groups (European Parliament)
N/A
Communication activities
The Vanguard Initiative has been pioneering a new approach to support EU industry internationalisation and competitiveness by bringing regions (and clusters) together to:
- discuss common objectives and find complementarities,
- map and better understand regions’ industrial competencies and capabilities,
- develop joint strategic action plans (building critical mass and complementary specialisations)
- align strategic investments arising from these roadmaps.
The goal of this approach has been to create “inter-regional smart specialisation platforms”. The “Vanguard Initiative methodology” consists of four subsequent phases: learn, connect, demonstrate and commercialise.
The Vanguard Initiative methodology has been used by the EC as as a good inspiration for the Thematic Smart Specialisation Platforms launched in 2016 (Industrial Modernisation, Energy, Agri-food). These Thematic Smart Specialisation Platforms are instruments to support bottom-up collaboration between businesses and researchers along value chains across the EU. They promote complementarity of regional funding for innovation in specific smart specialisation areas. They target key political priorities in order to facilitate the emergence of transnational projects to modernise EU industry
The European Commission has been closely following the exciting progress made to date by the Vanguard Initiative regions in order to better understand what steps would need to be taken and what possible bottlenecks would need to be overcome by collaborating regions.
In its 2017 Communication "Strengthening Innovation in Europe's Region", the European Commission highlighted the Vanguard Initiative as an example of how more strategic inter-regional cooperation and sustainable linkages between regional ecosystems along smart specialisation priority areas such as industrial modernisation can increase competitiveness and resilience.
All the Vanguard Initiative position papers, activities and events can be found here:
https://www.s3vanguardinitiative.eu/newsOther activities
None declared
Meetings
Meetings
1 meetings found. Download meetings
The list below only covers meetings held since November 2014 with commissioners, their cabinet members or directors-general at the European Commission; other lobby meetings with lower-level staff may have taken place, but the European Commission doesn't proactively publish information about these meetings. For more information about which commissioner is responsible for which portfolio, check out this link: https://commissioners.ec.europa.eu/index_en All information below comes from European Commission web pages.
1 July 2024: We have noted that some meetings are appearing in duplicate, ie. some meetings seem to be listed twice. This seems to be because the Commission changes some element of a meeting data after the meeting has first been listed, which causes LobbyFacts to register it as a new meeting. We are investigating further.
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Date 24 Sep 2024 Location Brussels Subject Integrated pensions and Retail Investment Reforms DG Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union Attending - John Berrigan (Director-General)