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ADRAL is a regional structure established on the 18th June 1998, with an initial fully paid-up share capital of 498.798€. It is a result of a wide partnership, composed of an ensemble of entities, both public and private, working on several areas of activity with relevant experience in all sectors of economic, social, research and development activities, geographically spread and deeply acquainted with the local and regional reality.

Being a Joint Stock Company, its statutes do not require attributing profits to shareholders. The agency does not anticipate distributing profits to shareholders, which means that the philosophy of this company corresponds in practice to those of non-profit bodies.

One of the major tasks of ADRAL is the cooperation with all local agents, promoting common initiatives and projects based on a spirit of partnership, fundamental to achieve the proposed aims.

ADRAL’s Main Activities

• Regional Studies and Economic Information
• Territorial Marketing
• Economic Promotion
• Technical Assistance to Public Administration
• Consultancy
• Training

Strategic Principles

• Qualification and reinforcement of the industrial sector in order to increase competition.
• Valuation of the existing potential in the productive sector.
• To support the economic structure especially to those sectors which have a strong impact on employment (in order to create and maintain new jobs) facing the inter-regional asymmetries and strengthening social cohesion.
• Global qualification of human resources and the local communities.
• To support the spread of entrepreneurial culture, promoting an entrepreneurial position of young people and the creation of new companies (micro and SME’s) in areas which have a strong internal potential
• To promote Alentejo region, as well as its comparative advantages to attract investors (national and international ones).
• Agreement of national and community programmes of interest to the region, as well as eventual support funds.
• Recognising the importance of non renewable resources existing in the Pyrites Area, to study a suitable concept of regional development supported in the sulphuring mining reality and setting it up in order to solve the related social question.

The object of ADRAL – Alentejo Regional Development Agency, is to promote the regional development of Alentejo and strengthen its economic and productive base, in co-operation with other agents and entities in the region, and the ones within European Union, which have a similar purpose.

ADRAL - Alentejo Regional Development Agency
Parque Industrial e Tecnológico de Évora
Rua Intermédia do PITE Nº 4 and 6
7000-171 Évora
Portugal

Tel: +351 266 769 150
Fax: +351 266 769 156
www.adral.pt
e-mail: geral@adral.pt