History

1849

1852 Establishment of the first Professional and Technical School

1852
Issue of the Association Newspaper

1854 Support to the establishment of the Bank Aliana and to the establishment of a Mortgage Bank

1856
Organisation of the First Industrial Fair

Foudation on May 3rd by royal proclammation of Queen Maria II Vitorino Damsio

(AEP Founder)

History

1865
Organization of the Crystal Palace International Exhibition

1987 Opening of Exponor Porto International Fair

1995 Opening of Europarque Congress Centre

1997
AEP enjoys the status of Chamber of Commerce and Industry

1998 Opening of Visionarium Live Science Centre

History

1998 Creation of Parque-Invest [Entrepeneurial Parks Promoting Company]

1999 Change of name to AEPPortuguese Entrepeneurial Association

1999 Opening of Exponor Brasil

2000 Creation of AEPs arbitrage Centre

2004 Constitution of the Entrepreneurs Confederation of Portugal

Mission

To defend the interests of Enterprises and to provide

services towards their competitiveness

AEP - Portuguese Entrepreneurial Association

Scope: National and Multisectorial Number of Employees: 312 Consolidated Net Assets: 205 million euros Consolidated Activity: 40 million euros
2009 Data

Senior Associative Board

. AEPs Senior Associative Board covers around 125 business associations representing the main sectors of the economy and the main industrial regions all over the country . Its performance has granted a greater efficiency to the corporate associative movement in Portugal

AEP Members

Dimension
. Micro Enterprises . SME . Large Companies 22% 67% 11%

Main Activity
Industry Commerce Services Agriculture Others 52% 23% 18% 01% 06%

Services to Companies

. Establishment of enterprises, business associations and Joint-Ventures

. Support on the approach to the Incentive Systems. . Innovation, Mediation and Industrial Property (trademarks and patents)

. Legal Support (company founding, commercial, industrial, fiscal and labour law).

www.aeportugal.pt

. Access to main data base centres . Information to enterprises

. News
. On-line services

Vocational Training

. AEP owns the largest Continual Training Centre to corporate boards.

. Authentication and Ability Certification for adults.

. + 30 000 trainees / year.

Support to Foreign Markets

. Direct and permanent link to international markets.

. Organisation of business missions, collective participation in trade fairs

and permanent showrooms Business on the Way Program. . Sectorial and market studies.

Atlantic Business School

www.ege.pt

EGE Atlantic Business School is a business school founded by AEP, the Portuguese Catholic University and the Aveiro University, in partnership with ESADE Business School of Barcelona.
. . . . MBA International Executive Masters Top Management Courses Short Specialized Seminars

Training in New Technologies

. CESAE is a private institution, based in Porto with several branches all over the country. The Universities of Porto, Aveiro, Instituto Politcnico do Porto and other commercial and industrial associations are among its associates. . Specialised in new technologies and computer training, CESAE provides support and services to enterprise organisations and individuals in communication, information technology, languages and soft skills.

. CESAE has more than 15 years of experience in e-learning, multimedia content creation,
project management, consulting and training for managers and trainers. It owns an online elearning platform with hundreds of courses.

Conventions

www.europarque.pt

www.fecomercio.com.br

www.exponor.pt

- Europarque is the largest Congress Centre in Portugal and is characterized by the flexibility of its space, enabling the organisation of the most diverse initiatives at several scales. - Exponor has a flexible congress centre prepared to be a support of trade fairs. - Palcio de Cristal is one of the icons of Porto. It is now being recovered and extended to allow larger congresses. In three years AEP will manage this venue that was originally conceived to receive the first international trade fair, organized by AEP in 1856. - Fecomrcio-SP Convention Centre is managed by Exponor Brasil. It is located in S.Paulo, the business capital of South America.

Trade Fairs and Exhibitions

www.exponor.pt

www.exponor.com.br

EXPONOR - Porto International Fair whose experience in organizing events dates back to 1856, has branch offices around the world and organizes over 50 fairs every year for different sectors of activities in Europe, Africa and South America. It was the first Portuguese trade fair organizer certified by the ISO 9001 and is still one of the few, on an international level, which can boast this recognition. It is member of the Board of UFI - The Global Association of the Exhibition Industry and, at present, 17 of its fairs are considered UFI Approved Events EXPONOR manages the organization of fairs which take place on a total of 100,000 m2 of covered exhibition area, of wich 60 000 m2 at EXPONOR and 40 000 m2 at EUROPARQUE, both in the outskirts of Oporto city. In Brazil, we created in 1999 Exponor Brasil, responsible for the most important Wine Fair of South America: Expovinis Brasil.

Eurisko

. Energy Efficiency . Quality Management . Management Consulting . Environment Consulting

Business Parks
. Parque-Invest is a Business Solution Company providing

entrepreneurs with integrated solutions for the setting and development of their business.

. Business parks all over the country with best locations and infrastructures: Valena, Viana do Castelo, Paredes, Santo Tirso, Leiria, Loures, Viseu, Santa Maria da Feira, Torres Vedras and the Azores. Main fields of intervention: . Specialized consultancy in management, regional planning and development. . Specialized consultancy in business location. . Management of industrial, technological and business parks. . Home Business, Promotion of Entrepreneurship and business incubation.

Entrepeneurial Park

Science and Technological Park

Business Park Incubator In project

www.parque-invest.pt

Live Science Centre

www.visionarium.pt

. Permanent exhibitions . Multimedia Show . Demonstration of scientific experiences . Laboratorium

. Thematic gardens

Experience Discovery Center

- AEP, together with EON Reality Inc., the world's leading interactive 3D software

provider, and Take the Wind, a technology-based company that focuses on innovation
within communication and biomedical learning interfaces, has created an Experience Discovery Center (EDC), INSIZIUM.

IDIT - Technology Based Services

. Processing materials . Industrial acoustics . Water and effluents laboratory . Industrial information technology

AEP Foundation was set up in November 2009 by 52 Founders, mainly composed by Companies, Banks and Higher Education Institutions. The Foundation aims at promoting entrepreneurship and spreading knowledge in the field of business sciences.

AEP Foundation is committed to promote not only Meetings, Congresses and Seminars, but also studies towards the accomplishment of the above-mentioned objectives.
Its initial Social Fund represents approximately 3 Million Euros.

AEP: over 160 years serving companies.