On the occasion of the 2017 AER MYFER Award, ShineBright on the region of Lower Austria that presented its project on Youth Coaches for Lower Austria Communities. Initially a pilot-project, Youth Coaches has been integrated in the normal course of activities of Lower Austria authorities. The initiative provides support for the implementation of youth projects for … [Read more...]
#ShineBright Hedmark’s Youth County Council
On the occasion of the 2017 AER MYFER award ShineBright on the region of Hedmark, Norway, that presented its project of a Youth County Council. This initiative, promotes the involvement of Youth in regional politics. Norway conducts its governance on three different levels: the State, the county (fylke) and the local level. At the county level, the County Council represents … [Read more...]
#ShineBright Youth entrepreneurship in Umbria
On the occasion of the AER 2017 MYFER award, ShineBright on the region of Umbria, Italy, that presented a project on Creativity Camp. The initiative aims at encouraging the development of an entrepreneurial culture in Umbria. Creativity Camp supports young people (18-29 yo) to acquire skills and competences related to the field of entrepreneurship and make them aware of … [Read more...]
#ShineBright Children support centre in Antalya
On the occasion of the 2017 AER MYFER Award, ShineBright on the region of Antalya, Turkey that presented a project called GEDAM. The initiative aims to provide support for children through free academic and artistic activities as well as specific counseling. GEDAM targets young people between 7 and 25 living in Antalya. In the center, around 50 teachers are giving free … [Read more...]
#ShineBright Canton of Fribourg develops childhood-youth policy
On the occasion of the 2017 AER MYFER award, ShineBright on the Canton of Fribourg in Switzerland, that presented its project "Je participe !/Ich mache mit!" (I participate). The initiative is a follow-up of a Law adopted by the region on 12 May 2006 on Children and Youth on the development of a global and coordinated childhood-youth policy. The Canton of Fribourg created … [Read more...]
#ShineBright Vojvodina
On the occasion of the 2017 AER MYFER Award, the Jury elected the Region of Vojvodina, Serbia as its grand winner on a project on Health and sexual education for high school students. This project started in 2013, after a survey of high school students returned alarming results indicating poor knowledge among sexually active teenagers. As regular school curricula in the … [Read more...]
#ShineBright Catalonia
On the occasion of the 2017 AER MYFER Award, the region of Catalonia in Spain received the special prize for its project on New opportunities and unique programs. Confronted with the daunting task to curb a 48.9% unemployment rate for young people under 25 in 2013, this region developed its own Youth Guarantee model based on social innovation, with two highly successful … [Read more...]
#ShineBright Antalya
On the occasion of the 2017 AER MYFER Award, the region of Antalya, in Turkey presented its project of School League. The initiative aims at creating social inclusion among young people through sport. It targets school-aged youngster, especially children with fewer opportunities within municipalities of Antalya: Muratpasa, Konyalti and Dosemealti. Sport competitions create … [Read more...]
MYFER Award ceremony
The Most Youth Friendly European Region Award ceremony took place yesterday in Sankt Pölten, Lower Austria on the occasion of the 2017 AER General Assembly. This ceremony, chaired by Sonja Steen, outgoing President of the AER Committee for Culture, Youth and Education, highlighted the efforts region make to become more youth-friendly territories. Youth participation and … [Read more...]
MYFER Award jury meeting
Today, Tuesday 16 May early in the morning the jury of the Most Youth Friendly European Region Award met in Brussels, Belgium. Together, they evaluated the 10 shortlisted applications. After passionate debates, the jury selected MYFER 2017's grand winner. The winner will be publicly announced on 31 of May at the AER General Assembly in Austria. A special prize will also be … [Read more...]
Noord-Brabant encourages bio-based economy – #ShineBright
On the Occasion of the Regional Innovation Award on Circular Economy, ShineBright on the region of Noord-Brabant, in Netherlands that presented its project Green Chemistry Campus: Waste2Aromatics project by Biorizon. The Green Chemistry Campus is a business accelerator for developing biobased chemical building blocks for the chemical industry. The Campus thus … [Read more...]
And the winner is…
The region of Brussels-Capital (BE) and the Province of Noord-Brabant (NL) were recognised in the 10th AER Regional Innovation Award on 30 November in the framework of the series of events on "Investing in the future: new perspectives for the regions”. The award ceremony was hosted by BNP Paribas Fortis and handed over by the AER President Dr Hande Özsan Bozatli and Mr Jean-Luc … [Read more...]
One month to apply for the Regional Innovation Award!
The Assembly of European Regions calls all regions in our continent to look at the successful stories of innovation in their territories in the field of Circular Economy. What is Circular Economy? Circular Economy is a new way of doing things. It is time to overcome the old model of linear economy: resources-production-distribution-consumption-waste. Natural resources are … [Read more...]
Do you remember the winners of the 2007 edition of the Regional Innovation Award?
The AER team is preparing the Regional Innovation Award 2016 and we came across some pictures of previous awarded regions. Here you can see the winners of the 2007 Communicating Europe awards: Extremadura Region (ES), the region of Lower Austria (AT), and Sisak-Moslavina (HR) together with the President of the European Commission José Manuel Durão Barroso. On teh category … [Read more...]
The circular economy: challenges and enablers for SMEs
SMEs represent 99% of businesses in Europe thus they are the backbone of the European Union’s economy. Adopting a “circular economy” business model will not only decrease resource consumption but will bring competitive advantage and open new markets to companies. Nevertheless, SMEs often encounter different types of barriers and challenges for which they need practical, … [Read more...]