The Association provides its members, i.e. the European Regions and Municipalities,  with a representative body that can be coherent, distinguishable and influential towards all relevant stakeholders and decision-makers at both public and private level.

The Association allows its Members to play a key role in the implementation of strategies that aim for the uptake of hydrogen, fuel cells and electric mobility.

The Association will serve as a coordinating platform for European Regions and Municipalities and will abide by the following Guiding Principles:

• Harmonize synergies between national, regional and local programmes and policies;

• Help Regions and Municipalities to align and integrate their strategic priorities, approaches and objectives towards sustainable energy within a low carbon society;

• Collect experiences that feed into the European agenda and definition of priorities;

• Increase the impact of the Regions’ and Municipalities’ efforts by identifying, coordinating and bundling relevant activities across the different Regions and Municipalities in Europe;

• Provide a fertile environment for state-of-the-art research and demonstration projects in Europe that enable innovation, and promote the success of trials and deployment;

• Encourage public acceptance at the European level by identifying and planning measures to

raise the awareness in the EU context and actively engaging key stakeholders;

• Develop financial mechanisms and strategies to integrate hydrogen, fuel cells and electromobility
on a European scale at local level;

• Become a focal point for data collection and assessment;

• Compile fact based policy recommendations for local decision makers.

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