ECC In addition to ERA’s legal training activities which are held in our own premises in Trier, events of external clients are also regularly hosted in the ERA Conference Centre (ECC). After an exceptionally successful 2018, ECC turnover in 2019 was nevertheless second best ever. The main activities hosted are more medium size fairs or larger congresses with up to 200-250 people, often with a parallel exhibition. Our regional and supra-regional clients were labour unions, public authorities, associations, companies, universities, the state of Rhineland-Palatine and the city of Trier (both founding patrons of ERA).
Events highlights in the ERA Conference Centre
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he European character of the Academy, the central location of its conference centre and the available interpretation facilities qualify the ECC to be a special destination for small to medium sized international events. In this context the following events should be highlighted as exemplary conferences and activities in 2019. The bi-lingual 12th international congress on city development (Städtebaukongress) was organised by the University of Trier. As English and French were the leading language of this congress, ECC interpretation facilities were an added value to the deliberations. The Konrad-Adenauer Foundation again organized a four-day international conference in the ECC. The subject of this conference, to which ERA’s director Wolfgang Heusel was invited as an external speaker, was the question of how Europe deals with the fight against populism. The ECC provided an excellent room logistic, offering space for the plenary meeting and several different workshops. The proximity of the ECC to Luxembourg was optimised, with visits to an embassy as well as to Schengen.
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