Youth 2015 – recommendations for Europe, 18 November 2015 10.30 am to 5.00 pm, Committee of Regions, Brussels The second conference on the EU Youth Strategy and the role of the states and regions will address the core findings of the third EU Youth Report on the realities faced by young Europeans. Further, it will focus on resulting challenges and the need for political action … [Read more...]
Nordland (NO) always looking for more AER
Today, AER welcomed a delegation from Nordland fylkeskommune (AER member region from Norway) in AER Brussels office, explaining the organisation, discussing possible cooperation and learning that Nordland has a strong cooperation with the region of Gelderland (AER member from The Netherlands) in the area of youth mobility. Nordland is also represented in AER's governing … [Read more...]
Youth Entrepreneurship Strategies – Final publication
Presentation brochure of the Youth Entrepreneurship Strategies (YES) project. Table of contents: Final conference Final output: the Regional Action Plan (RAP) Recommendations for entrepreneurship education in Europe Project results and conclusions Inter-regional SWOT analysis Launching the network of promotion of entrepreneurship education in … [Read more...]
Regional Adult Learning Multipliers and the Europe 2020 Flagship Initiatives
Final report of the REALM project The REALM project originated from a need to better connect adult learning in the regions of the European Union with EU policy development. By focusing on one sector, adult learning, and addressing the relevance of each of the seven designated Flagship Initiatives to this target group, we hope to bring EU policy closer to EU citizens. (Use … [Read more...]
AER’s Brussels office welcomes members during the Open Days
Are you in Brussels for the week of the Open Days? Come and visit us! As you know, the new AER Brussels office is conveniently located in the European headquarters, a few minutes walk from the Committee of the Regions and the European Parliament. As we are always eager to meet face to face with our members, we hope to have an opportunity to see you while you are in … [Read more...]
GMF hosts event on the importance of Subnational Diplomacy
October 7, 2015, Washington, DC: The German Marshall Fund hosted the opening reception for the Washington, D.C. leg of Our Cities, Our Climate: A Bloomberg Philanthropies - U.S. Department of State Partnership on the evening of Wednesday, October 7, kicking off the U.S. Department of State’s three-day initiative. The opening reception brought together U.S. and international … [Read more...]
In the last five years the number of european families at risk of poverty and social exclusion has risen by 5%
Our vice-president of Committee 2, Mihai Ritivoiu (Timis County, Romania), representing AER in Bruxelles, at a Roundtable on Civil Dialogue with European Commissioner for Employment, Social Affairs, Skills and Labour Mobility, Marianne Thyssen. Join the discussion on the occasion of the AER Committee 2 plenary in Winchester on 2 November 2015 … [Read more...]
Invitation to the Open Days side event “Approaching AAA rating in youth employment”
13 October, 11.00, Espace Monte Paschi (avenue d'Auderghem 22-28, 1040 Brussels) The aim of the event is on the one hand to identify the reasons for the high youth unemployment rate and subsequently juxtapose regions from both ends of the spectrum in order to exchange ideas and best practices in the attempt to tackle youth unemployment successfully and mutually compare … [Read more...]
Third Multiplier event on preventing school dropout
Tulcea (RO), 5-6 October 2015 Partners of the Joint Efforts to Combat School Dropout (JET CD) project met in Romania for their third myltiplier event. 49 participants from the partner organisations and from different organisations from the region and including 4 representatives from Tulceas twinning region from the Republic of Moldova attended the event. They shared their … [Read more...]
Public Procurement of Innovation – opportunity for regions
Seize the excellent opportunity that the European Commission is offering to regional and local authorities that are ready to deploy or scale up innovative solutions in the coming 2-3 years in the field of AHA (ie. procure innovative solutions for active and healthy ageing, integrated care etc.). What you can gain: co-finance up to 35% of the procurement costs, benefit from … [Read more...]
Looking for experience sharing in cross border business parks
The Dutch municipality of Coevorden that would like to exchange experiences with border and cross-border regions regarding cross-border business parks with the aim to check if there could be also a possibility to initiate a project regarding this subject. The municipality of Coevorden and its German neighbour municipality Emlichheim, share a cross-border industrial park … [Read more...]
Catalan pro-independence parties gain majority: what happens next?
Amadeu Altafaj, Permanent Representative to the European Union for Catalan Government was interviewed on Belgian public radio, RTBF by Bertrand Henne on "Matin Première". He insisted on the historically high participation (77%) in these elections which male the event a strong and decisive milestone in Catalunya's history. The results are somewhat surprising compared to the … [Read more...]
AER Recommendations for Roma Inclusion
Learn more on how regions can help fight Roma discrimination throughout Europe thanks to AER's recommendations for Roma Inclusion, adopted by the Bureau in Ankara (TR) on Wednesday 17 December. The publication also includes good practices from different regions: Hungary: Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén County Government Romania: Timis County Council Sweden: Sörmland Regional … [Read more...]
Commission’s appetite for an EU budget focused on results
The Assembly of European Regions participated on 22 September in a high-level conference organised in Brussels by the European Commission called an EU budget focused on results. Leading figures in Europe's political landscape like European Commission's President Jean-Claude Juncker, Vice President's Kristalina Georgieva and Maroš Šefčovič and German finance minister Wolfgang … [Read more...]
The first public library was started in Winchester gaol
Winchester jail, that is. Gaol is an obsolescent spelling of the word now usually spelled jail. Winchester is the capital city of AER member Hampshire County, in the United Kingdom, that will host the next AER Committees' Autumn Plenaries, on 2-4 November 2015. … [Read more...]
- « Previous Page
- 1
- …
- 46
- 47
- 48
- 49
- 50
- …
- 114
- Next Page »