Since 1996, the funding by the European Commission of specific Alzheimer projects allowed Alzheimer Europe to successfully apply and carry out transnational European projects bringing together a number of national Alzheimer and dementia associations around common initiatives, such as:

• the development of a Telephone Helpline Manual and a training programme for helpline operators,
• the development of an Internet site of the organisation,
  the drafting of a European Carers'' Manual, currently available in Danish, French, German, Greek, Italian, Portuguese and Turkish,
• the drafting of a Children''s book, currently available in Danish, Flemish, French, German, Greek, Italian and Portuguese,
  an inventory of legislation affecting people with dementia and their carers in the 15 Member States of the European Union.
• the elaboration of legal recommendations on how to improve the legal rights and protection of adults with incapacity due to dementia
• the development of an Intranet site in order to improve communication and the sharing of information between our member associations
  a survey on the gender imbalance linked to the task of caring for someone with dementia at home
  the setting up of  a database of information about rare forms of dementia