Foster Europe, Foundation for strong European Regions is an independent, non partisan, private, and charitable Austrian Foundation to further regional decentralisation, rural development and federalism in Europe.

While working in a pan-European framework, Foster Europe has its main emphasis in the area of Central and Eastern Europe.

Founded in 2009 in Eisenstadt, Austria, by a group of dedicated people Foster Europe’s purpose is to enhance knowledge, debate and research on regionalism, federalism and rural development, to broach new topics of European relevance and to forge international connections among scholars, intellectuals, practitioners, and institutions from different societies and fields.