The brokerage event organised by AER in collaboration with ERRIN showed once again AER commitment to keep members update on funding opportunities and projects. After the last presentations on European programmes done at the Autumn Committees' Plenary 2016 in Izmir, AER goes further with an event dedicated to one of the main European funding programmes: Horizon 2020. The … [Read more...]
Pilot projects for minority groups and multiculturalism supported by Rights, Equality and Citizenship Programme
One of the strengths and richness of the EU is its diversity. AER is the place where local and regional diversities are indeed represented being a value for mutual learning and exchange of experiences. Mutual understanding, acceptance and tolerance is a core element of fruitful coexistence of different ethnic, religious, national and linguistic groups, as well as of different … [Read more...]
Migrants, asylum seekers and refugees under the spot: two new funding opportunities
Migrants and refugees are on the top of the European Commission agenda since the flow of people coming to Europe blow up. AER is also closely following this topic big very high in the agenda of European regions, which had discussed it on occasion of several AER meetings, in particular during the 2015 AER General Assembly & Autumn Bureau and the 2016 Committees Spring … [Read more...]
Interreg Europe: 3rd call opens on March 2017
The end of the year brings to regions the opening of the call for proposals of one of the main programmes for regional authorities, the Interreg Europe . The third call will open on 1 March and close on 30 June 2017. The application pack will be available online in January 2017. To learn more information and to understand how you can already start your involvement in a … [Read more...]
Europe for Citizens: 2017 deadlines are published
The European project stands on the participation of their citizens. Without a feeling of ownership the European Union can not exist as we know. Based also on this consideration, the European Commission promotes since decades the programme “Europe for Citizens”. The programme is in the same flow as the 2016 new year resolution taken by AER and its members to put their energies … [Read more...]
Inclusion and participation of European Citizens in host countries: call for proposals
Democracy is the core of our living together and the civic and political participation its more natural expression. Since several years the European Commission and the other European Institutions have been raising the worry of low electoral participation and the consequences on the quality of European democracy. AER and regions are aware of this issues. How to increase the … [Read more...]