EUREGHA represents the interest of regional and local authorities focused on public health.EUREGHA is an open network and the membership is free of charge. To date, EUREGHA accounts more than 100 local and regional authorities across 18 countries.

The EUREGHA Network was created on January 30th 2006 according to an opinion of the Committee of Regions to meet the needs of the European Commission regarding patient mobility and open coordination on health quality care in 2004. It represents a platform of dialogue between regional and local authorities/organisations and the European Commission on health care issues.

EUREGHA was created with some important objectives:

• To improve the role of local and regional authorities at the European level
• To share information and experiences on public health
• To raise awareness on the role of regional authorities in implementing the EU health policy
• To improve the collaboration among Brussels Regional Offices
• To cooperate with relevant stakeholders such as NGOs and universities
• To collaborate with the EU institutions, in particular the European Commission, Committee of Regions, the EU presidency and MEPs.

The EUREGHA network is coordinated by a Consultative Group, whose role is to liaise with the European Commission and other key partners. The EUREGHA network encourages the creation of Working groups focused on specific public health issues.

If you want to learn more about the functioning and future strategy of EUREGHA, please see our Rules of Procedure and Business Plan 2009.

Our Activities

With the intent of improving the role and recognition of local and regional authorities at the European level, the network promotes a series of initiatives emphasising the regional dimension. Over the past 2 years EUREGHA has infact organised a series of conferences on a wide range of issues pertaining the public health field through the collaboration of different stakeholders such as the European Commission, MEPs, pan-European NGOs and other regional networks. More information related to the upcoming conferences are included in the homepage section "News".

Furthermore, EUREGHA enables the creation of interregional and cross-border partnerships by disseminating project proposals and facilitating the partner search. In this regard, EUREGHA organises, in correspondence to the launch of public calls, info day and market places to better inform our members on the call’s specific aspects and to facilitate the partner search.