The Common European Sustainable Building Assessment (CESBA) published a policy paper for a common assessment of buildings in Europe. Launched with the support of Rhônalpénergie Environnement (RAEE), this report addressed to territorial collectivities aims at harmonising European indicators of energy efficiency in buildings. Read the policy paper … [Read more...]
Golden Eye, Innovator festival
AER President’s trip in Georgia was the occasion to greet Innovator, member of the AER Business Community, which is sharing its expertise in the drafting of the AER political report on regional televisions. Zurab Gegenava, CEO of the company and organiser of the international festival of cameramen, invited AER President to open the festival attended by many companies from … [Read more...]
We need more youth mobility to tackle unemployment
The Eurodyssey annual Forum gathered the programme’s managers and coordinators, together with interested regions, on 23 -24 October in Valencia (ES). The upcoming years will be particularly important for regional activities on youth mobility and tackling youth unemployment. Youth Guarantee Plans and the European Commission recommendations towards the quality of internships … [Read more...]
The new European Commission elected by the European Parliament
22 October: the EP approved the new European Commission, headed by Jean-Claude Juncker. 423 MEPs gave their support to the Juncker Commission, while 209 voted against and 67 abstained. The new Commission took office on 1 November for a 5 year mandate. … [Read more...]
World Health and Design Forum
On 22 October in Eindhoven, Noord-Brabant (NL), at the occasion of the World Health and Design Forum, AER organised an event focusing on regional politicians' involvement in the implementation of smart solutions for active and healthy living. 5 regional politicians exchanged on the strategies they were developing in this field in their territories and the obstacles they … [Read more...]
ENGAGED Mutual Learning Workshop Report
ENGAGED is a network of stakeholders from different backgrounds and across different European countries, who are interested in learning from each other and together support the further deployment of innovative solutions to promote active and healthy ageing. This community will actively shape the active and healthy ageing agenda of the EU and deliver knowledge and guidelines on … [Read more...]
AER delegation in Georgia
News from the Cultural Centre of Mordovia in Děčín
In the Cultural Centre of Mordovia Republic in Děčín, Czech Republic, the international non-governmental organisation “Perspective Elbe-Labe” will be represented. A focus of the organisation is on the further development of artistic skills of people working and living in the Elbe-Labe region, to promote artistic achievement. The objective is to give local people a space … [Read more...]
Regions on board to effectively tackle climate change
The Assembly of European Regions (AER) associated itself to the R20 « Regions of Climate action » - the world network for the fight against climate change – since its creation in 2010. The region of Ile-de-France (FR) welcomed in October the World Summit for Climate organised by the R20, gathering 500 participants representing regions, cities, businesses, investors and … [Read more...]
AER asks governments and international organisations to take regions on board to effectively fight climate change
Paris (FR), 10 October 2014 The Assembly of European Regions (AER) associated itself to the R20 « Regions of Climate action » - the world network for the fight against climate change – since its creation in 2010. Today, the region of Ile-de-France (FR) welcomes the World Summit for Climate organised by the R20, gathering 500 participants representing regions, cities, … [Read more...]
Sweden after the 2014 elections
Dr Malin Stegmann McCallion, senior lecturer in Political Science in Karlstads University (SE) published an article after the elections in Sweden. Read the article here … [Read more...]
Sweden after the 2014 elections
Article by Dr Malin Stegmann McCallion, senior lecturer in Political Science in Karlstads University (SE). (Use Pop Out button to Download/Open) … [Read more...]
Structural funds for health: a regional perspective
Karsten Uno Petersen, President of the AER Committee on Social Policy and Public Health and Vice President of the region of Southern Denmark, and Anthoni Zwiefka, Senior Specialist of Lower Silesia (PL) shared their experience on the use of structural funds for health during the information session AER co-organised in partnership with COCIR, the trade association of the … [Read more...]
Regions4GreenGrowth’s Final Conference
Regions4GreenGrowth provides recommendations on how to boost investments in RES & EE. “The European Union (EU) aims to get 20% of its energy from renewable sources (RES) by 2020, as well as to cut 20% of Europe's annual primary energy consumption” (Source: EC website.). The stakes are high, but unfortunately, the fact is that public and private stakeholders willing … [Read more...]
AER Statement on the Black Sea
Adopted at the 5th Black Sea Summit on 3 October 2014 in Bucharest (RO) (Use Pop out button to Download/Open) … [Read more...]
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