Participants

Who should participate?

The OPEN DAYS are geared towards an audience specifically interested in regional policy:

• officials of European, national, regional and local administrations and experts in the field of managing and evaluating cohesion policy programmes;
• members of the Committee of the Regions, the European Parliament and the European Economic and Social Committee;
• national, regional and local politicians;
• representatives of private companies, banks and European and national associations and organisations;
• journalists from European, national, regional and local media.

The typical participant is from the regional or local administration (44%), new to the event (43%) and is travelling to Brussels specifically for the event (81%).*

Organisational affiliation of participants *

(* figures from the OPEN DAYS 2012 online survey)