Association for Regional Social and Economic Development (UIC 176716686) is a private non-profit organization established in mid-2014. The association works in partnership with a network of more than 20 organisations at local and national level.

Main objective:
- Promoting sustainable regional social and economic development

Subject of activity:
- Organizing and conducting meetings, seminars, consultations, trainings, internships, charity events, donation campaigns, cooperation with state institutions and NGOs in Bulgaria and abroad
- Preparation and participation in national and international programmes and projects with European and other donor funding
- Organizing, conducting and participating in local, national and international forums and discussions
- Organizing events, conducting trainings, and implementing educational and information programs

Areas of functional expertise:
- Provision of technical assistance to public institutions and capacity building
- Project cycle management - preparation and management of projects with funding from the European Structural and Investment Funds
- Carrying out feasibility studies
- Institutional development
- Regional and economic development
- Implementation of social initiatives
- Conducting training - tactical and functional
- Performing marketing research
- Development of sector analyses
- Development of entrepreneurship
- Knowledge and technology transfer

The means by which the Association achieves its objectives are:
- Promote and make contacts with business and non-profit organizations to secure sponsorship and other conditions for joint activities
- Preparation of publications and media appearances in the form of articles, reports, interviews, etc.
- Publication of brochures, magazines, books, newsletters and other printed publications, video and audio materials, maintenance of websites
- Carrying out research, studies and analyses, providing assessments, opinions and exchanging information
- Conducting an information campaign in the mass media in the country and abroad
- Preparation of expertise, programmes, forecasts and proposals for central and local government bodies