Based in Brussels and Dublin, the European Institute of Communications is a professional academic body specialising in PR and Communications. It is a member of the Global Alliance PR and the European Public Relations Education and Research Association (EUPRERA). Representing the interests of 4500 members we provide accredited training programmes through our academic divisions of PR, Social Media and Digital Marketing. Our courses include European Public Affairs, European Studies, PR & Communications, Marketing & Public Relations, Crisis Communications, Internal Communications, Media Relations for the Press Officer, Digital Marketing & Online Communications together with a range of courses in Social Media, and specialist short business courses. All the Institute’s courses are facilitated and designed to service the professional communications industry. Our comprehensive hubs in Leuven (Brussels) and Dublin are the centers for lecture based, distance and online learning programmes. Subscribing to a comprehensive Code of Ethics and Professional Practice we are open to global membership from Communication and PR practitioners. The European Institute of Communications has built its reputation as a facilitator of professional Public Relations education. Former graduates are from a range of semi-state, corporate, political, NGO, media corporations, international and consumer related industries. The current objective of the European Institute of Communications is to provide enhanced academic professional standards for the private individual and corporate sector. The Institute offers a number of varied and diverse range of courses throughout Europe in addition to our extensive long distance training programmes. The European Institute of Communications has an E-learning division to provide platforms for international markets to meet the changes in world educational requirements and programmes that will meet and satisfy the merging global corporate markets.