Wind in their Sails – A Best Practice from Regione Abruzzo

4 February, 2020 By Editor

AER is pleased to share success stories from its member regions. Below is a report from Regione Abruzzo (IT) about its recent triumph as part of a European project on renewable energy. "Regione Abruzzo is strongly committed to fostering the production of renewable energy and improving energy efficiency. In the region, there are 10 big wind farms, located mainly in … [Read more...]

AER’s take on the EU Green Deal

13 December, 2019 By Editor

The latest ‘Europe's State of the Environment 2020’ report, which was launched by the European Environment Agency earlier this month, states that Europe is facing environmental challenges of unprecedented scale and urgency. This report underlines that Europe will not achieve its 2030 goals without urgent action over the next 10 years to address the alarming rate of biodiversity … [Read more...]

Internship Vacancy: Events & SDGs

18 November, 2019 By Editor

Events Assistant (Trainee Contract - 6 months) Special Project: SDG Event 2020 We are looking for a motivated student to join the AER Team at our Brussels Office for six months from February 2020. Working closely with the AER Events Coordinator and Institutional Relations Officer, your main task will be to: Contribute to the overall successful running of AER Committee … [Read more...]

Looking back at the 2019 AER Summer Academy in Vojvodina!

15 July, 2019 By Editor

The Autonomous Province of Vojvodina (RS) hosted the 2019 AER Summer Academy, engaging almost 100 participants from all over Europe. Youth participation, equality, migration, environment and unemployment were some of the topics addressed during all the plenaries and parallel workshops. For all these reasons it was a great opportunity to discuss not only the problems that young … [Read more...]

Together4Cohesion: Knowledge-Sharing – a regional perspective.

17 June, 2019 By Editor

This article was penned by Hrvoje Kovač, Varaždin (HR), the Chair of the AER Subcommittee on Youth. Varaždin is one of the pilot regions of the Together4Cohesion project. Given that Cohesion Policy is a key EU investment tool to foster the development in Europe, regions could benefit from it in order to improve citizens’ quality life through job creation, business … [Read more...]

Will you help us to rEUnite Europe?

16 May, 2019 By Editor

Ever heard of European Cohesion Funds? ... said nobody ever... According to a Eurobarometer survey from June 2017, in some regions, up to 95.3% of the population consider Cohesion Policy useful. This sounds great - but do people actually know about the EU's investments in regions more generally? The study revealed that only 35% of EU citizens are aware of … [Read more...]

Brexit and the Brussels-Capital Region

26 April, 2019 By Editor

This article, written by the Brussels-Capital Region, is part of our Brexit & European Regions Series. The Brussels-Capital Region is important to the United Kingdom both in terms of economic opportunity as with respect to its citizens working in international institutions and the private sector. As the Brexit date approaches, businesses and citizens both in Brussels and … [Read more...]

Meet us in Paris to launch the “I Choose Europe” campaign

30 January, 2019 By Editor

For the past few months, AER has been working hard with partners to get the project European Youth Together: Road to the Future on its feet. Consider this your personal invitation to see it take flight. The project will launch the "I Choose Europe" campaign to engage youth ahead of the European elections in Paris on 16 March, as part of a large-scale youth event: … [Read more...]

Apply now for the “I Choose Europe” Youth Exchange

29 January, 2019 By Editor

AER, proud partner of the EU funded project Road to the Future, is happy to share with the entire network the launching of the first large scale youth exchange. This mobility activity comes after several initiatives that project partners realised in order to create the framework to engage the youth in the discussions on the future of Europe. AER is strongly contributing to this … [Read more...]

Learn how one project has put the “We” into eGovernment

22 January, 2019 By Editor

Digital innovation and new technologies have become a potential game changer in the relationship between citizens and government. AER and its member regions have long been active in coming to grips with the challenges and opportunities digital tools present to public authorities. 2016’s AER General Assembly and Spring Bureau, for example, saw representatives of our member … [Read more...]

Join Marche Region’s (IT) Interreg Med project on Acquaculture

17 January, 2019 By Editor

Marche Region (IT) and the University of Camerino (UNICAM) are looking for partners to express interest in a proposal for a project to push forward Blue Growth. They are applying under Interreg Med’s Third Call for Multi-Modular Projects (M2 Testing + M3 Capitalization). Their proposal focuses on Acquaculture, aiming to contribute to the transnational development, transfer and … [Read more...]

Erasmus+: drive innovation in education and training, launch transnational sport projects

14 January, 2019 By Editor

New calls for projects under the Erasmus+ programme are now open. Applicants are invited to propose projects under the calls Forward-Looking Cooperation Projects 2019 EACEA/36/2018 and Erasmus+: Sport 2019. Forward-Looking Cooperation Projects (FLCPs) One of the ways that the EU seeks to stimulate policy progress is by funding bottom-up innovation efforts. Under Key … [Read more...]

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