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What we offer: our services

Lobbying before European and national political decision-makers

  • Access to AER’s reports, positions, and contributions on a given theme
  • Keeping watch over and monitoring European themes from a regional viewpoint
  • Expert political analysis
  • Accompanying members through the European decision-making process
  • Advising members on strategical aspects of regional politics
  • Anchoring, connection, and intermediation with European institution

Gathering and organising expertise on regionalism

  • Academic production (studies, etc.)
  • Successful regional practices
  • Thematic expertise
  • Socioeconomic information

Spreading regional information and expertise through diverse channels of communication

  • Breakfast briefings
  • Publications
  • Informational notes
  • Events
  • Social networks
  • Website
  • Conferences

Facilitating networking between member regions

  • Contact with regions from across Europe
  • Contact with thematic networks
  • Contact with European socioeconomic circles
  • Placing AER and its members on the international scene

Organising training and the exchange of successful practices

  • Peer evaluations
  • Training academies
  • Eurodyssey
  • Summer academy
  • Study visits
  • Field visits

Promoting opportunities for regions

  • Monitoring calls for projects and service contracts
  • Finding project partners
  • Setting up projects
  • Promoting a region’s potential (regional airports, etc.)
  • Drawing businesses into the regions

Organising encounters

  • Events (Crisis summit, etc.)
  • Conferences (meeting on the Black Sea, etc.)
  • Thematic workshops
  • Committee plenary sessions, General Assemblies, Bureaus
  • Work groups

Improving member regions’ visibility and image

  • AER awards (for innovation, etc.)
  • Media appearances
  • Regional press spot
  • Tales from Europe
  • Regions in the spotlight

Contact

Justin Sammon
Member Relations Coordinator

Tel.: +353 87 761 82 75 (mobile)

E-mail: [email protected]

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AER Projects

  • Ongoing projects
    • EU-BELONG: An Intercultural Approach to Migrant Integration in Europe’s Regions
    • Includ-EU: Regional and local expertise, exchange and engagement for enhanced social cohesion in Europe
  • Partner search
  • Completed projects
    • SCIROCCO Exchange project
    • SKILLNET – Sector Skills Network of VET centres in Advanced Manufacturing: a coalition of transnational VET providers
    • CUBES – Cultural Administration Boosting with the Engagement of Sustainability for Local Communities
    • Y-FED: Europe is what we make of it
    • AMiD – Access to Services for Migrants with Disabilities
    • AER Summer Academy 2016
    • Alcohol Prevention Peer Reviews
    • ECREIN+
    • Engaged
    • Joint Efforts to Combat Dropout (JET-CD)
    • Let’s REUnite! Together for cohesion project
    • MOCHA
    • MORE4NRG
    • PRESERVE
    • PYE – Promoting Youth Employment
    • PRO-I3T
    • REALM – Regional Adult Learning Multipliers and the Europe 2020 Flagship Initiatives
    • Regions4GreenGrowth
    • Road to the Future
    • SEED European Silver Economy Awards
    • Smart Care
    • Smart Europe
    • YES – Youth Entrepreneurship Strategies

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