Report on decentralized international brokerage events

The idea of Brokerage events out of Brussels is funded on the basis of complementarity. It was noticed in the previous Health NCP Net project that there was a very high subscription to partnering event leading to booked out events very rapidly. The demand in more events is thus existing, and decentralizing them will give the possibility to communities of countries that could not afford to go to Brussels to participate to such events. The cross-border brokerage events will all be organized by a minimum of two countries and they need to bring together participants from a minimum of three different countries in order to gather a critical mass, and fully involve communities geographically close to the place of the event, attracting thus other communities throughout Europe. At least one of the three brokerage events planned will take place in EU-13.