• Highlights of the 2026 Regions Forum – General Assembly & Spring Bureau meeting in Timiș
• 🌱 A Taste of Fribourg: Innovation, Tradition and Sustainable Agriculture in the Heart of Switzerland
• Highlights of the AER Autumn Events 2025
• Dialogue on Cohesion Policy Post-2027: Bridging Regions & the European Parliament
• Highlights of the 2025 Eurodyssey Forum and its 40th Anniversary | 1-3 October 2025 | Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
• Highlights of the AER 40th Anniversary & General Assembly 2025 | Maribor Innovation Forum
• Youth Regional Network General Assembly 2025: Changing the Present to Shape the Future
• AER Elections 2025 – Shape the Future of Our Network
• EU-Belong Final Conference in Strasbourg: A Regional Approach for an Intercultural Europe
• Highlights of the AER Autumn Bureau & Working Group meetings | Insights of the CL-YE study visit in Brussels
• EU-Belong & History Box: demonstrating the role of history education in advancing intercultural integration across Europe
• The AER at the 22nd European Week of Regions and Cities
• Highlights from the Summer Academy of Culture in Bodø | Insights of the CL-YE study visit on models of youth engagement
• Highlights from the 2024 AER General Assembly & Spring Bureau meeting | 8th Black Sea Summit | Batumi, Ajara
• Highlights of the AER Winter Dialogues 2023 – Autumn Bureau Meeting & MEET Intergenerational Debate
• Regions empowering & upskilling youth – Highlights from the Eurodyssey Forum 2023 in Ponta Delgada, Azores
• A successful YRN capacity-building weekend in Koppang, Innlandet, Norway!
• OPEN CALL FOR YOUNG PARTICIPANTS! Winter Dialogues and MEET Intergenerational Debate (Lower Austria 29-30 November)
• Join AER at the #EURegionsWeek 2023
• Wrap-up: Highlights from AER 2023 Summer Symposium | General Assembly, Bureau Meeting and YOUTHopia Transnational Event
• PEACE TWENTY-FIVE: The role of “everyday peacemakers” in nurturing peace and reconciliation in Ireland and across Europe
• CALL FOR NOMINATIONS – AER Presidency, Executive Board, Monitoring and Evaluation Group, Election Committee
• ‘Elevating Citizens’ Voices’ – AER-ENoP Publication on Participatory Democracy at National, Regional and Local Levels
• Wrap-up: Highlights of the AER Autumn Bureau 2022
• Wrap-Up: highlights from AER General Assembly 2022
• Interculturalism for Intercultural Regions to be!
• 2022 AER General Assembly–online registrations close Monday, 10 October!
• Summer Academy Bureau Debate – Recovering together: youth policy in Europe
• The AER Summer Academy Is Back!
• 1st AER-ENoP Forum on New Forms of Democratic Engagement
• How will an Intercultural Approach to Migrant Integration help Europe’s Regions- The EU-BELONG Project takes off!
• 2022 Spring Bureau & Member Engagement Meetings
• Eurodyssey Forum 2021 — Let’s get Youth Moving Again!
• Join our Campfire Event on AER’s EU Projects & Funding Services
• Join our Bureau Debate on Sustainable Mobility & Connectivity — the Road to Recovery and the Green Transition
• REGISTRATIONS OPEN: Skillman International Forum 2021| The Future of Learning
• Register Now: AER General Assembly & Agenda 2030 Conference
• PRESS RELEASE: Innovating Cultural Heritage, a Workshop by AER and CUBES
• REGISTER NOW: Unboxing the MFF Session II — Accessing Direct Grant Funding Programmes
• AER Climate Debate: Back to Our Future – Regions Leading Europe’s Green Recovery
• REGISTRATION OPEN: Social Inclusion in TVET and Skill Development – Leaving No-one Behind
• AER Bureau Debate on Democracy: Putting Citizens back at the Heart of Decision-Making
• Food for Thought – why regional leadership is a key ingredient in Smart Food Innovation
• The Long Road to Recovery – working in Renewed Partnership with Regions
• New mobility services: qualification profiles and skill needs
• The commitment of regions to Sustainable Food Policies in the EU
• Wrap-Up: Highlights from the first virtual AER General Assembly, Bureau Meeting and Eurodyssey Forum
• Join the webinar on “New mobility services: Anticipating skills and job roles”
• Join the Webinar ‘Circular Economy: Opportunities and Needs in the Labour Market’
• Eurodyssey Forum 2020
• Regional Business Forum 2020
• Join the webinar on lifelong learning: upskilling and re-skilling of 50+
• #EURegionsWeek – Conducting joint campaigns on Cohesion policy across European regions
• Covid-19: important update regarding November events
• European regions and the green transition in a COVID-19 era
• Together4Cohesion: Responding to the challenges of communicating cohesion policy.
• Agenda 2030: Now More Than Ever
• Quality Education – Why It Matters?
• Road-to-the-Future final project conference on youth and democracy!
• Debating the Role of Regions in the Digital Era
• Economy 4.0: Shaping a Shared Future
• “Massively thought-provoking” – AMiD project Final Conference
• Eurodyssey Assembly 2019
• Regions in the Digital Era
• AER Debate on Glocalising the Sustainable Development Goals
• Good Governance at the AER Autumn Plenaries
• European Biodiversity: Protecting Primary Forests
• Contrasted Regional Realities: The Need for Cohesion
• An Injection of Reality at AER Breakfast Seminar on Digital and Healthcare Innovation
• The Local Events of Together4Cohesion are starting!-“Apulum Agraria” Fair in Alba (RO)
• Let’s REGIONerate Europe!
• Looking back at the 2019 AER Summer Academy in Vojvodina!
• Together4Cohesion launch in Larnaca
• YRN General Assembly and Spring Plenary 2019 in Lower-Silesia (PO)
• Where do you want to #IChooseEurope?
• At International Migrants Day event, regions share intercultural approaches to diversity, inclusion
• On the road: AER travels to Varaždin, Croatia to discuss EU funding opportunities
• Join our panel debate on regional challenges at stake for youth mobility!
• Look out! Come and discover Eurodyssey at the Brussels Event! (Registrations closed)
• AER members share knowledge to improve situation for refugees in their regions
• AER co-organises events on Syrian Refugee Crisis: Policy Insights and Recommendations
• AER Committee Plenaries – 12/14 September – Relive the week here!
• Host the next AER event! Visibility, good practice exchange & experience
• 2017 Eurodyssey elections: call for applications for Steering Committee Chair and Members
• Q&A: Regions as partners for youth?
• Registrations for 2016 Spring plenaries now open!
• Save the date for the 2016 edition of the AER Summer Academy
• AER Events
• Cities and Regions at COP21: Leading from the Front with Equity and Inclusion
• Eurodyssey: Promoting youth employment for 30 years
• “The future of regionalism is bright”
• AER Training Academies on Leadership: Making change happen in your regions
• AER Committee 3 Spring Plenary meeting
• Opportunities for interregional cooperation in Regional Operational Programmes
• Fall Plenary Meeting of the AER Youth Regional Network
• Tales from Europe on Eco-Innovation
• European mobility: an asset in times of crisis
• ERRIN-AER Policy Debate “Horizon 2020”
• Conference on “Combating School drop-out”
• Culture: be smart during the crisis!
• 2nd Annual European Regions Energy Day
• 2nd Annual European Regions Energy Day
• 1st European Regions Energy Day: Energy subsidiarity on its way in Brussels
• Cohesion Policy and Europe 2020: AER challenges EU decisions to affect Europe for the next 10 years
• ALEC2010: First international conference on Regions’ e-he@lth
• Youth Employment in Times of Economic Crisis
• AER seminar on youth entrepreneurship: Regions Supporting Innovative Business and Social Profit
• AER and MORE4NRG bring regional solutions to energy challenge
• AER Training Academy enters new season in Brussels
• AER energy experts kick off first MORE4NRG peer review
• Hübner in “Deep Water” at AER Summer School in Valencia
• AER and Valencia region highlight role of regional cooperation in fighting the effects of climate change
• AER Peer Reviews: Experts meet in Serbia to audit the region’s potential to produce energy from biomass
• AER European Citizens Forum: After 20 Years of Transition, What’s Next for Poland?
• Michèle Sabban elected AER President
• AER study: stronger regions, stronger innovation
• AER Press conference hosted by Lower Austrian Government Minister in St. Pölten
• Culture and tourism, public and private: Partnerships for regional development
• AER General Assembly 2008 is approaching
• AER Acting President Michèle Sabban adresses AER Summer School 2008
• AER Summer School 2008: European regions supporting youth entrepreneurship
• AER Youth Ambassadors bring regional voices to the European stage
• The Lisbon Treaty: A licence for grass-roots action!
• Taking the lead on demographic change, AER takes a new approach to old challenges
• Cultural tourism: The future of sustainable development within Europe’s regions
• Young people from the regions @ work!
• Political leaders of Europe’s regions meet in Frankfurt
• AER: Europe must not neglect its rural population
• AER European Citizens’ Forum in Romania One year of Romanian EU Membership: What’s Next?
• AER European Citizens’ Forum in Poland: “What does Europe mean to you?”
• AER European Citizens’ Forum. Students: We must take Europe forward!
• General Assembly 2007 in Udine: Pres. lly and Barroso stated that “Regions are Building Blocks for Europe!”
• The AER Awards 2007 AER honours innovative, communicative, and youth-friendly regions
• The AER General Assembly live on web TV!
• Launch of the AER Observatory on Migrant Women
• Eurodyssey sets sails for further widening and deepening
• The Province of Istanbul hosts the AER: Over 80 Regions take a stand on decentralisation in Europe
• AER Summer School 2007: European regions and Young citizens, together for sustainable development
• European Grouping for Territorial Cooperation (EGTC): AER concerned by possible EU Member State delays
• The AER ‘Summer Package’: Work & study opportunities for Young Europeans all over Europe
• 1st “Tales from Europe” night successfully launched in Brussels
• 1st ‘AER-opean Reception’ gathers more than 120 professionals in Strasbourg
• Make Regional Policy happen! AER Major ‘Seminar & Partnership Fair’ on Interreg IV C Opportunities
• AER Study Visit to UNDP Decentralisation Projects in Southern Serbia
• Low noise – Low-fare – High impact Regional airports as factors for economic growth
• Energy at the service of regional economic development: It’s a win-win situation
• The Assembly of European Regions 2006 vintage: Riccardo Illy re-elected AER President
• Territorial co-operation: Making Europe tangible and relevant for all of us
• Regional Quality Labels can make your mouth water, or how to promote rural areas’ economic development
• Regions should be the link between Europe and the Citizens for a better communication
• Regions get a Health check-up: E-health is the future
• Regions important factors for stability and economic growth
• ‘Europe is on standby- we must adopt the budget now’ the AER warns the European Union
• AER Summer School 2005: Crossing the Bridge – Welcome to Europe
• 17 May 2005: Rendez-vous in Brussels “For a sustainable European agriculture”
• Scenario Europe 2010 – The AER launched its work on the White Paper on the role of the regions
• Services of General interest in a New Europe Reinforcing the scope for action by the regions
• General Assembly 2004 in Vienna: Dr. R. Illy, President of Friuli-Venezia Giulia, elected President of the AER
• AER Conference on “The Future of Cohesion Policy in an Enlarged Europe”
• 3rd Conference of AER’s Education and Culture Regional Ministers: What Place for Arts and Education?
• AER Summer School 2004: Regional Representatives from across Europe
• August 2004: Olomouc, Czech Republic, Welcomes AER Summer School
• AER Seminar: The Organisation and Management of Public Enterprises in the Western Balkans
• AER Inter-ministerial Conference: What future for rural areas in Europe?
• Conclusions of AER-Hearing in Barcelona: 2004 New strategic alliance
• Election results for the AER: Mrs Liese Prokop has been re-elected President
• AER Summer School 2002: The Regions’ follow-up to the Johannesburg Summit
• The 1st follow-up conference to the Johannesburg summit!
• Nordland crowned the most Youth-friendly region for 2001
• General Assembly 2001 in Sopron: Main outcome
• Conclusions of the AER Bureau meeting in Oberkirch
• AER political Bureau meeting Presentation
• 15th General Assembly of the Regions of Europe: 7–8th December 2000, Seinäjoki, Etelä-Pohjanmaa (FIN)
• AER Conference: The Regions plead in favour of regional diversity in Europe…
• AER Conference: “Regions and Culture in the Europe of tomorrow”
• AER Summer School: Vilnius hosts edition 2000
• General Assembly 1999 in Lyon: For a Europe with its Regions
• 14th General Assembly of European Regions: 2-3 December 1999, Lyon, Rhône-Alpes (F)
• The Regions’ Contribution to the EU Enlargement process: 21st October 1999, Wroclaw, Lower Silesia (PL)

Alexandre Brecx
Membership & Institutional Relations

Tel.: +32 (0)2 400 10 50
E-mail: a.brecx(at)aer.eu
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