The ADRET (Agency Development Rural Europe and Territories)

The ADRET (Agency Development Rural Europe and Territories) is a non-profit organization founded in 1993 whose mission as resource center is to disseminate information on the programs and policies of the European Union and to develop actions as part of its mission of public information service of the European Union on three departments of the Occitanie Pyrénées-Méditerranée Region. Since 2005, ADRET is the host structure of a Europe Direct Information Center (after having been a European Rural Carrefour from 1994 to 2004). The Europe Direct Information Center mission is to convey information and advice about European Union’s policies, to promote actively local and regional debate about the European Union, to allow the European institutions to disseminate local and regional information and give the public the possibility to send feedback to the European Union institutions. For 5 years, ADRET has developed many actions to promote active European citizenship, regarding mobility especially for young people. ADRET - Europe Direct Pyrenees Information Center has been accredited in 2015 both a sending and coordination EVS structure, and in 2018, the structure has been accredited as a sending and coordination structure for three years in the European Solidarity Corps framework. Since the end of 2018, ADRET is also in charge of animation of departemental network of european and international mobility in Pyrenees-Orientales.