What? The CUBES project was developed with the scope of creating a bridge between cultural heritage, administrative bodies, and digitalization. Adjacent to raising awareness and emphasizing the importance of culture, one of the project’s main externalities is that of increasing competitiveness and economic growth. Targeted within the actions to be implemented are local … [Read more...]
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Includ-EU: Regional and local expertise, exchange and engagement for enhanced social cohesion in Europe
What? In the aftermath of the outburst of the migration crisis, numerous efforts towards identifying and implementing solutions have been made on all governance dimensions. Despite the endeavour of ensuring the most efficient policies, most of them treated short-term symptomatics of what is a rather long-term concerning issue. Includ-EU brings into play a bottom-up approach … [Read more...]
Making TVET more attractive for Women!
Technical vocational education and training provide concrete opportunities for inclusion by developing innovative curricula matching rapidly changing societal needs and fostering life-long learning opportunities. Yet, the sector has been for long time predominately male centred making the need to counter the gender-bias and gender-stereotypes in the sector a foremost priority … [Read more...]
SKILLNET – Sector Skills Network of VET centres in Advanced Manufacturing: a coalition of transnational VET providers
What? The project is co-financed by the Erasmus + programme - KA3 Support for Policy Reforms - and coordinated by the Skillman Network. It aims to strengthen and improve the Vocational Education and Training (VET) system’s capacity to design effective and high-quality programmes tailored to current societal conditions and aiming to close the gap between the industry and the … [Read more...]
Y-FED: Europe is what we make of it
What? “Y-Fed – Europe is what we make of it” is a project co-funded by the Erasmus+ Programme of the EU with the aim of bringing the EU closer to its young citizens by developing a proposal for an improved institutional framework of the Union in line with the European Youth Goals (EYGs). The project is intended to foster and strengthen young people’s active citizenship and … [Read more...]
Skillnet Project -Partnerships in Focus
Welcome to our Partnerships in Focus Hub! Here you can find out about all existing activities, funding and partnership opportunities promoted within the Skillnet Project – The Partnerships in Focus bulletins. SKILLNET is a project co-funded by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union which aims at improving the framework of the Vocational Education and Training (VET) … [Read more...]
“Massively thought-provoking” – AMiD project Final Conference
Massively thought-provoking... That was the first reaction of one of the participants to the conference. The final conference of AMiD project. Why provoking? Because the topic is pretty new. And because it matters. Because as panellists and participants, there were representatives from the local authorities, disabilities organisations, service providers and international … [Read more...]
100 Solutions Projects Campaign: most projects from AER member regions were preselected!
AER is pleased to announce that the “100 Solutions Projects Campaign,” launched by R20 in collaboration with AER as the campaign's European partner and under the mandate of the Leonardo di Caprio Foundation, has just completed its first round of preselection. This preselection test aimed at qualifying the projects that were most in line with the campaign's priorities. Most of … [Read more...]
Youth Guarantee Scheme & the Employment Initiative
AER organised its first informal Breakfast Briefing in its new Brussels office, at rue d'Arlon 63-67, in order to inform its members about the latest developments on EU level regarding the EU Youth Guarantee Scheme and the Youth Employment Initiative, a financing tool and structure to implement the Youth Guarantee-Scheme. In February 2015, the Juncker Commission announced … [Read more...]
Training Academy on Silver Economy
More than 30 regional delegates met on Thursday 5 March 2015 in Aalborg for the Training Academy on the Silver Economy. The ageing population does not only represent a challenge for our society, but also an opportunity. Including senior citizens in the design of public policies is a necessity for regions in order to be able to support their sustainable development. Edwin … [Read more...]
Noord-Brabant (NL) looking for partners
The Province of Noord-Brabant (NL) is looking for partner regions to create a consortium for the Open Days. Final deadline for applying to the European Commission: 6 March 2013 - Should you be interested in cooperating with the Province of Noord-Brabant, please contact Lieke Van Alphen … [Read more...]
A brand new AER project ‘Promoting Youth Employment’ (PYE) Step one: Vojvodina
Novi Sad, Vojvodina (SRB), 14 September 2011 Vojvodina is the first region to host the Assembly of European Regions’ (AER) Peer Review on youth employment. During the opening of this one-week session, Ms Maja Sedlarevic, Vice-President of the Assembly of AP Vojvodina, highlighted the importance of an open-minded approach when a region is been reviewed. “For us, this peer … [Read more...]
AER and MORE4NRG bring regional solutions to energy challenge
Sundsvall, Västernorrland (S), 23 September 2009 Politicians and energy experts from dozens of regions across Europe gathered in Sundsvall, Västernorrland (S) today to strengthen their commitment to developing renewable energy resources and energy efficiency in their territories. The Assembly of European Regions’ (AER) “Energy Efficiency - Regional Solutions for the … [Read more...]
AER energy experts kick off first MORE4NRG peer review
Maramures (RO), 4 September 2009 The first energy audit in the framework of the MORE4NRG project was conducted this week in Maramures (RO), based on the Assembly of European Regions’ (AER) unique peer review methodology. The on site visit aimed to provide the host region with practical guidelines on how to create an effective regulatory framework for the … [Read more...]
Hübner in “Deep Water” at AER Summer School in Valencia
Valencia (E), 28th August 2009 In her first speech as chairwoman of the European Parliament’s Committee for Regional Development, Danuta Hübner has said that water will be a “major priority” of the EU’s Regional Policy. “There are regions that will require specific responses, which will be more affected than others by droughts, floods or water scarcity,” Ms Hübner said … [Read more...]