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...]
Starring Together4Cohesion: lights, camera, cohesion!
Over the past week the Together4Cohesion Stand shined within a couple of innovative and equally interesting events. The debut was made within the Economy 4.0: Shaping a Shared Future event hosted by AER, the Brussels Capital Region and respectively the Government of Catalonia. The Cohesion stand welcomed the guests with smiles, balloons and positive stories of best-practices … [Read more...]
Europa Forum Wachau 2019
What? 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...]
Road-to-the-Future final project conference on youth and democracy!
After a good number of training workshops, advocacy activities at national and local level, an inspiring bus tour and many other successful lobby actions aimed to encourage youth participation and democratic engagement towards the 2019 European elections and beyond, the Road-to-the-Future / European Youth Together project is coming to an end. The "I Choose Europe” campaign … [Read more...]
Moving forward with Together4Cohesion: Csongrad County’s Forum for the Mayors
Recent policy strategies, news, and debates at European level have been dominated by three key phrases: cohesion funds, multi-level governance and regions. However, dominant does not necessarily imply intuitive. These leitmotifs soon became the sources of numerous questions varying from inquiries as to what are cohesion funds to delineations regarding what exactly is a cohesive … [Read more...]
Pathway to success: the T4C Best Practices Catalogue
Within the course of every person's life there is a particular moment, in which, for just a fraction of a second they wished the pathway to success was complemented by a manual of instructions. Pragmatism, however, taught us that no success story is alike, henceforth there also is no all-inclusive recipe to follow as to ensure it. AER is dedicated to honouring and … [Read more...]
CUBES Kick-Off: bridging the gap between culture and digitalisation
Amidst the general excitement surrounding the concepts of digital society and innovation, interconnectivity and multi-level governance, there is a lingering question that makes its presence felt: What about the people? While pursuing the path of continuous innovation, of developing unheard of infrastructures and that of translating human behaviour into artificial intelligence, … [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...]
Moving forward with Together4Cohesion: Career Management Conference in Alba (RO)
The European Cohesion Calendar of the Together4Cohesion project is making progress. The seventh edition of the Career Management Conference will be held on 20-22 November 2019, at the University "December 1, 1918" in Alba Iulia, in Romania. Indeed, this will be the largest annual event for personal and career development, held within the UAB, a conference organised by the … [Read more...]
Eurobarometer: What do we know about Cohesion Policy?
The results of the flash Eurobarometer 480 on "Citizens' awareness and perception of regional policy” were published on 7 October, just in time for the European Week of Regions & Cities. The flash survey was carried out on a sample of 700 -1000 respondents in each EU Member State in June 2019. 4 in 10 European citizens are aware of projects funded by … [Read more...]
Together for Cohesion project goes to the Council of Europe!
The Together for Cohesion project has been represented at the 37th session of the Local and Regional Authorities Congress, led by the Council of Europe and held in Strasbourg on 28-31 October 2019. At our dedicated stand, project representatives promoted and advertised the project mission and activities to the interested participants attending the congress. Thanks to this … [Read more...]
AER to represent SCIROCCO Exchange project consortium in the European Parliament Healthcare Conference
On 9 October 2019, nine EU umbrella health organisations held a debate: ”EU 2019-2024: Health Champions Wanted” on the health policy challenges for the European Union in the coming years. The goal of the event was to raise awareness on the main public health priorities including universal access to high quality and sustainable healthcare, disease prevention, the fight against … [Read more...]
National insights. AMiD closer look at everyday situation of migrant with disabilities
AMiD project looks at the topic of migrant with disabilities under different angles. The very starting point of the journey was getting the picture of the different situation of migrants and refugees with disabilities in some EU member countries. Mostly, the ones on the front line to the welcome. Greece, Austria and Italy were part of the study. Finland played the role of … [Read more...]
Successful ‘Together4Cohesion project information desk’ at the AER committee’s plenaries in Podčetrtek (SI)
On 25 September 2019, at the committees' plenaries in Podcetrtek in Slovenia, an information desk (stand) was organised to present and disseminate the Together 4 Cohesion project activities. In particular, participants had the opportunity to exchange insights about EU cohesion and structural funds from their point of view. Participants received a showcase on how to use … [Read more...]
The Local Events of Together4Cohesion are starting!-“Apulum Agraria” Fair in Alba (RO)
Doesn’t time fly when we're having fun? Well… right now we're in the middle of a challenging project “Together for Cohesion: let’s rEUnite!” co-financed by DG Regio (Directorate-General for Regional and Urban Policy), which started in April 2019. We had some fun it’s true especially when we launched in June the communication campaign Together4Cohesion on occasion of AER … [Read more...]