“We are in a crisis – a climate crisis”. During the R20 Austrian World Summit, Greta Thunberg, the 16 year old activist from Sweden delivered a moving speech calling on the world leaders to influence, to make an impact and to start protecting our world. Indeed, the Summit saw world leaders joining together calling for nations to reaffirm their commitment to the Paris Agreement. … [Read more...]
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Interested to learn more about active and healthy ageing? Register to the Homes4Life project workshop!
Our living environments have a tremendous impact on our health and wellbeing. Regions play a key role to ensure the suitability and adaptability of housing to people’s needs and preferences – so as to promote a better active and healthy ageing! The Homes4Life project aims at developing a European certification scheme for age-friendly housing – a home that is … [Read more...]
SUMMER ACADEMY 2019: Østfold’s Solutions to Youth Entrepreneurship
Coinciding with the 2019 European Youth Capital, the region of Vojvodina (RS) will host the AER Summer Academy 2019 in the city of Novi Sad from the 1st to the 5th of July. This year’s edition entitled Youth is Future, Youth is Europe will be dedicated to reflecting on the Future of Europe from multiple angles and the role that young people can … [Read more...]
Connecting projects & sourcing good practices for Subcommittee on youth
Mr. Hrvoje Kovač, Varaždin (HR), the Chair of the Subcommittee on Youth, is participating in many external events and projects, where he represents both Varaždin County Council and AER. The idea is to seize opportunities for connections and to create synergies between initiatives both within and outside AER. Sourcing good practices on youth His participation in different … [Read more...]
Interested in giving a boost to your future? Join the Road to the Future training course on youth and democracy!
Following the #IChooseEurope campaign, AER along the Youth Regional Network (YRN) are happy to invite you now to the training course addressed to European-oriented youth participants within the EU-funded project “European Youth Together – Road to the Future”, which focuses not only on the engagement of young people to the European Parliament Elections 2019 but also on the … [Read more...]
AER to attend the R20 Austrian World Summit in Vienna
Next week, the R20 Austrian World Summit will again be taking place in Vienna. This long-term initiative to create a network platform to help regions, states and cities implement the UN Sustainable Development Goals and meet the global climate protection targets outlined in the Paris agreement stems from Arnold Schwarzenegger’s R20 Regions of Climate Action and is now in its … [Read more...]
SUMMER ACADEMY 2019: Brussels-Capital Region and its commitment to youth entrepreneurship
Written by Juan Antonio Gallardo Roca, Brussels International. “How to make youth entrepreneurship smart?” Coinciding with the 2019 European Youth Capital, the region of Vojvodina (RS) will host in the city of Novi Sad the AER Summer Academy 2019 from 1 - 5 July. This year’s edition of the Summer Academy entitled Youth is Future, Youth is … [Read more...]
Scholarship Opportunities: Europa Forum Wachau needs you!
The Europa-Forum Wachau was founded in 1994 on the occasion of Austria's accession to the EU. Since then, the aim has been to promote the topic of Europe and to communicate it passionately to the citizens. Since 1995, 26 Prime Ministers and 32 Foreign Ministers, 3 Commissioners and over 10,000 guests have taken part in the Europa-Forum Wachau in addition to one … [Read more...]
Will you help us to rEUnite Europe?
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...]
SUMMER ACADEMY 2019: Jönköping’s approach to youth participation
"How to encourage active participation among first-time voters at the local level in the European election?" Coinciding with the 2019 European Youth Capital, the region of Vojvodina (RS) will host in the city of Novi Sad the AER Summer Academy 2019 from the 1st to the 5th of July. This year’s edition of the Summer Academy entitled Youth is Future, Youth is … [Read more...]
YRN General Assembly and Spring Plenary 2019 in Lower-Silesia (PO)
The AER Youth Regional Network’s General Assembly and Spring Plenary 2019 will take place from 14-16th of June in Wrocław, Poland. During its General Assembly, The YRN Committees will invite the participants to discuss how the regional youth councils and other youth entities can effectively influence national politics and learn "mediation" techniques that can lead to the … [Read more...]
Regions take holistic and wholehearted approach to SDGs
On the morning of 15 May 2019, AER and Oppland (NO) co-organised a Breakfast Seminar entitled "The Sustainable Development Goals and regional growth – Is it possible?", which took place at Oslo Region European Office in Brussels The sustainable development goals (SGD) call upon governments, businesses and civil society to come together and work towards a sustainable planet, … [Read more...]
Together for Cohesion: let’s rEUnite! and…let’s kick-off
When you say connection, you say cohesion. When you say cohesion policy you say regional policy. When you say regions you say the Assembly of European Regions. That’s the short way to say that one of the core reasons that led to the setting up of our network is to advocate the principles of regional cohesion at European level. This is how the action started and continues, as … [Read more...]
AER at World Peace Forum in Normandy
The World Forum Normandy for Peace will take place in Caen (FR) at the Abbey aux Dames, the 4th and 5th June 2019. AER is contributing to this event with a debate panel on the role for local and regional authorities in peace-building. Peacemaking in Normandy For its second edition, the World Forum Normandy for Peace will be honouring “The Peacemakers”. The event will take … [Read more...]
TAIEX-EIR workshop in Gelderland: you’re invited!
Gelderland (NL) and the European Commission are organising a TAIEX-EIR workshop on “Maintaining and Enhancing Ecosystem Services in Urban Regions”. This event, which is open to AER members and can be fully funded by the European Commission will take place in Gelderland in the Veluwe area, 4 - 5 July 2019. TAIEX-EIR learning programme The TAIEX-EIR PEER 2 PEER learning … [Read more...]
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