The European Union in the Community of Madrid
The European Union maintains a series of European information networks distributed throughout all its States.
European Documentation Center and Europe Direct Community of Madrid
Where are we?
On Castelló street, 123, ground floor. 28006-Madrid
Telephones: 91 276 12 17 / 20 / 21/ 24 / 25
Our presence in digital media
- European Documentation Center email
- Europe Direct Community of Madrid email
- Madrid website in the world
Our presence on social networks
Visit us on Twitter and YouTube.
Customer service hours
Monday to Friday from 9 to 14 hours
The services offered by the European Documentation Center, free and open access, are:
- Alert service by thematic profiles: legislative news, bibliography, European funding programs and calls, current news and other information
- Specialized library and newspaper archive
- Information and reference
- Consultation of the library's automated catalog
- Interlibrary and collective loan
- Post Editing
- Free subscription to newsletters published by the Center
- Information on job calls, scholarships and aid related to the European Union
- Informative material: publications, maps, brochures, etc.
- Training sessions on the EU for educational centers and other groups
- European information service through the Network of Eurolibraries of the Community of Madrid
Europe Direct Information Centers
Europe Direct Information Centers are local contact points.
They inform and respond in person to questions of all kinds on European issues, taking into account the local context.
They have qualified staff who maintain contact with citizens by organizing events in schools, debates with local and regional politicians and presentations at fairs and exhibitions. They collect more than a million queries a year, which help European policymakers learn directly about the needs and concerns of citizens.
To find the centers, you can go to the map of the «European Union around me».
European documentation centers
The European Documentation Centers contribute to teaching and research on European integration.
They offer a wide variety of documents on European affairs and encourage the academic community to participate in the debate about Europe. In the Community of Madrid they are in most Madrid universities.
To find the centers, you can go to the map of the «European Union around me».
EURES
Eures (EURopean Employment Services or European Employment Services) is a cooperation network for employment and the free movement of workers, one of the fundamental principles of the European Union, as reflected in the corresponding articles of the treaty that creates the Community. European.
The objective of the Eures network is to provide services to workers, entrepreneurs and any citizen who wishes to benefit from the principle of free movement of people, providing information and advice on job offers and demands, the situation and evolution of the labor market and on living and working conditions in each country.
ENIC NARIC
The NARIC Spain center belongs to the international network of ENIC-NARIC information centers.
It offers information on the processes of homologation, equivalence and professional recognition in Spain and other countries in the field of higher education.
Eurodesk
Eurodesk is a European network that offers a comprehensive information and guidance service to young people:
- Disseminate opportunities on European mobility for learning
- Promotes informative content of youth interest
- Resolves individual queries that young people may raise through the website and the European Youth Portal.
European Consumer Center
The European Consumer Center offers legal information and advice for your purchases made in another EU country, Iceland or Norway.
In addition, it acts to help you resolve your complaints and try to reach an amicable solution with the seller.
Enterprise Europe Network
Enterprise Europe Network or European Business Network provides support to small and medium-sized companies with international ambitions.
Co-funded by the European Union's COSME and Horizon 2020 programmes, the network's aim is to help companies innovate and grow internationally.
SOLVIT
SOLVIT is an alternative way to resolve conflicts.
It is a free service of the national administrations of the European Union countries, Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway, provided mainly online, and there is a SOLVIT center in each country.
Its objective is to find solutions within a maximum period of ten weeks from the moment in which the center of the country where the problem arises agrees to take charge of it.
Eurydice Spain - rediE
In Eurydice España-rediE, two information networks converge.
Eurydice promotes European cooperation and serves for the exchange of descriptive information on the organization and functioning of educational systems and national educational policies..
rediE operates as a territorial cooperation mechanism at the service of the State's educational administrations with the same purpose as Eurydice.
Eurolibraries Network
The Eurolibrary network is an initiative of Europe Direct, a pioneer in the European Union, whose objective is to respond to the community information needs of citizens and involve them in the European construction project. To achieve this, it relies on the current network of public, municipal and regional libraries of the Community of Madrid.
Centers of Interest on Training and Employment in the EU
The Centers of Interest on Training and Employment in the EU They emerge as a platform for dissemination and information on these matters.
In them, it is made available to citizens:
- Work offers
- Calls for applications
- initiatives
- Documents of interest
- New arrivals
These materials are sent weekly.
Practical sheets are published monthly with basic information for searching for employment or training in Europe and in the Union institutions.
