 |  | BEDA
Bureau of European Design Associations | | | | | | | description | | Founded in 1969, incorporated in The Netherlands and headquartered in Brussels, BEDA exists to ensure permanent liaison between design organisations - the professional societies, promotional, educational, research, social and design management networks - and the authorities of the European Union. The organisation's objective is to develop long-term policies on design for Europe, to promote the use of design across the continent and by so doing, to help industry compete in world markets. | | | link | | www.beda.org (1624) | | | phone | | +32 (0)2 212 94 29 | | | fax | | +32 (0)2 212 94 28 | | | address | | Kolonienstraat 56/7
1000 Brussels
Belgium | | | category | | Design Organizations | | | map | | 
| | | added | | Apr 11, 2006
| | | | news | |  | | Jan R. Stavik: BEDA President for 2009-2011
At its General Assembly in Brussels the Bureau of European Design Associations (BEDA) membership, attending from 22 European countries, welcomed its new President Jan R. Stavik (Norway) to serve for the period 2009-2011.
March 26, 2009 | |  | | EU Design Policy Will Create Jobs
The formation of EU design policy will result in more jobs for designers, according to president of the Bureau of European Design Associations Jan Stavik.
March 21, 2009 | | | |
| |  | | Beda Elects New Board of Directors and Accepts Three New Members
At its General Assembly timed to coincide with the Slovenian Presidency of the European Union, the BEDA membership attending from 23 European countries, elected the new Board of Directors for the term 2008-2010 and ratified three new members.
April 15, 2008 | |  | | European Commission to Act on Design Policy for Europe
On Monday 21 January 2008, BEDA President Michael Thomson (UK) and Vice-President, Jan R. Stavik (Norway) met with Vice-President of the Commission, Gunter Verheugen at his office in the European Commission in Brussels.
January 24, 2008 | |  | | BEDA Meets with Jose Manuel Barroso to Discuss a Design Policy for Eur
On Monday 8 October 2007, Michael Thomson, the President of BEDA, accompanied by a delegation of three BEDA Members, Severin Filek of Design Austria, Henrique Cayatte of the Portuguese Design Centre and Isabel Roig of the Barcelona Design Centre, met with European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso in Lisbon.
October 16, 2007 | |  | | Michael Thomson: BEDA General Assembly Elects New Leadership
The Bureau of European Design Associations, founded in 1969, with 39 member organisations from 22 European countries and representing over 15,000 professional designers, held its General Assembly on 24 March in the Internationales Designzentrum (IDZ), Berlin, coinciding with the EU 50 Anniversary.
April 4, 2007 | | | | mentions | |  | | First Ever European Design Day: October 1, 2009
The Design Council has welcomed the first European Design Day - October 1, 2009, organised by the Bureau of European Design Associations (BEDA), and is calling on European nations to work more closely together to improve, harmonise and share information on their design industries.
September 28, 2009 | |  | | Good 50x70 2008
Good 50x70, the initiative to promote awareness amongst the creative community of the power they have to be a force for good, is back for its second year.
February 24, 2008 | | |
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