European Development Agency

EuDA provides state-of-the-art international expertise for public, private, non-profit and academic sectors through educational activities, international transfer of know-how, networking of key stakeholders and through development and implementation of projects on regional, national and transnational level. Since 2008, EUDA has created an extensive international network of partner organisations that includes a wide variety of institutions and enterprises from all over the European Union, the EEA and other countries. EUDA network ranges across sectors and includes entities from the public as well as private sectors. EUDA aims at providing its network with know-how, international education programmes, partner search support, project development and project administration services. It has established many strong and lasting partnerships in the framework of European projects. EUDA has participated in many international cooperation projects, focused mainly on innovation in education and on social innovation. EUDA has a long and successful track record in mobility of students and employees, internship/placement schemes and on cooperation between educational institutions and enterprises. The most successful implemented projects include Erasmus Work Placements Consortium with two top Prague’s universities, organization of PLM mobilities within the Lifelong Learning Programme, DENS Project (within the PROGRESS Programme), Key Roma and I am Roma Projects, Current Trends in Social Innovation Project and Active Ageing Project within ESF Programme, 4 innovation projects in the Central Europe Programme (ACCESS, BICY, E2BEBIS and CENILS) and others. EuDA has significant experience with international placements, including relevant experience with Leonardo da Vinci programme. In the end of 2013 and the beginning of 2014, ERA acted as an intermediary organisation in two Leonardo da Vinci mobility projects – VISIT and GoTour. A total of 30 Italian trainees were matched with host organisations in Prague and EUDA is responsible for handling the logistics of the project in Prague and monitoring the progress of each individual placement. EUDA also runs its own internship programme for students. This programme has brought very good results and positive feedback. ERA thus has first-hand experience with coordinating and managing placements for the target group, which provides solid basis for the role of a project partner in this project. In the past two years over 60 interns from different Czech universities including Charles University, University of Economics, University of Finance and Administration etc. completed an internship at EUDA. EUDA has also managed and coordinated several large-scale projects funded by the European Union and has the necessary experience, skills, expertise and most importantly staff to successfully implement this project. Since 2011 EUDA is also registered as a host organisation in the Erasmus for Young Entrepreneurs database, and hosted 2 young entrepreneurs (from Hungary and Estonia) in 2013. Since 2012 EUDA is also a host organisation for Erasmus placements. One student from Spain and one student from Greece successfully completed their 6 months placements in 2012. EUDA also hoste 1 long-term trainee from Croatia within the Leonardo da Vinci Programme in . ERA also works closely together with the Prague Chamber of Commerce and Industry which provides the input from the side of the employers regarding the requirements they have for graduates.