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The Association Tecla

Founded in 1993, TECLA is an association of Regions, local authorities and other organisms with public objectives. It has operational offices in Rome and in Brussels.

TECLA was founded following the identification of the real need for European initiatives on behalf of a broad system of local authorities and institutions.
The increasing amount of information and the multiplication of programmes from the European Commission have gradually complicated the selection mechanism of the opportunities that were set up in favour of the territories, SMEs and economic operators. Moreover, technical aspects, such as the increased quality level required for the projects, the strict deadlines imposed by the calls for proposals, the complex management criteria, the consolidation of the concentration principle and, in particular, the transnationality requirements of most projects, have pushed local authorities towards the reinforcement of the organisational competitiveness elements and have made their participation in the processes of local and international co-operation indispensable.

Today, TECLA presents itself as an agency for the engineering of regional innovation and international co-operation with the aim to provide concrete answers to the needs expressed by its members.

The work methodology tends, on one hand, to promote the experiences and the specificities of local collectivities, linked to the competences and results produced by TECLA in the course of the years and, on the other hand, to encourage the circulation of experiences and the appropriation, on behalf of the members, of the savoir-faire connected to the network created around the experiences of TECLA.

Acting as a catalist of energies and competences, TECLA issues a common challenge to all territorial communities present on the European scenario, providing them with the adequate means to succeed: to enter into the international competitiveness, to have access to and use the resources of the European Union and to participate in innovating pilot actions