BRE is an extensive network of correspondents, who promote the concept of SME cross-border co-operation and widely publicize co-operation opportunities of non-confidential nature. BRE was created by the European Commission (Directorate General XXIII) in 1973 and is present in approximately 70 countries. The BRE correspondents are either private or public organizations (Euro-info-centers, innovations centers, chambers of commerce, etc.) BRE correspondents carry out the following tasks: Promote the concept of international partnership. Assist companies seeking an interregional or international partnership through the BRE, particularly in drafting, translating and following-up co-operation profiles. Circulate opportunities published via the BRE (distribution may take many forms: the internet, newsletters, database, direct, mailings, etc.). Pass on the names and contact information required to reply to a BRE co-operation request or offer. BRE correspondents feed and interrogate a state-of-the-art database, operated by the European Commission. How to use the BRE? If you company is interested in cooperating with a partner in another country, you should simply contact us and we shall help you introduce a cooperation profile (CP), on the appropriate form enclosed. This information is forwarded to the BRE central unit which prepares an advertisement and gives it an identification number before transmitting it to the correspondents for dissemination to its potentially interested clients. The validity of each opportunity is limited to 6 months, extendable for a further six months on request. A description of the business cooperation sought must include not more than 1,000 letters, in typescript. The charge for the services: 30 USD. The tem of payment: prepayment.