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...]
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AER acts as a dissemination partner for EU projects, providing a space for its members to grow and learn in a dynamic way.
With our dedicated project team, we want to encourage our members to work together and to follow AER's update on open projects, bids, and funding opportunities.
Aiming high to raise awareness for development in Europe
AER as well as 25 other main partners and 20 associates from 18 EU and 17 non EU-countries gathered on 21-22 February in Modena, Italy, for the first Steering Committee of the partners of the project "LADDER - Local Authorities as Drivers for Development Education and Raising awareness”. Funded by EuropeAid and led by the Association of Local Democracy Agencies (ALDA), LADDER … [Read more...]
Europe, let’s cooperate!
Bologna, Italy – 2-3 December 2014: This two-day event will offer participants the opportunity to learn more about the benefits of interregional cooperation and ways to implement projects, as well as meeting experts in the field of interregional cooperation. This event will be a chance to network and meet future partners ahead of the launch of call for proposals in February … [Read more...]
EU funding social entrepreneurship
As part of AER’s information cycle on European funding, this event which took place on September 18th, welcomed representatives from DG Research and Innovation, DG Regio, DG Markt and the European Investment Fund to present the different opportunities to develop social entrepreneurship in Europe’s regions. Participants learnt more about how the European Structural and … [Read more...]
A Breakfast Briefing to discover COSME
The Brussels representation of Mid-Sweden (SE) and AER organised a joint Breakfast Briefing on 11 April featuring COSME, the EU programme for the Competitiveness of Enterprises and Small and Medium-sized Enterprises 2014-2020. Key issue addressed was how regional authorities can make use of the COSME programme to support their own regional and local SMEs. Guest speaker at … [Read more...]
TEN-T: A journey to where?
Building on the will over the last 20 years to provide Europe with a fully integrated trans-European transport network (TEN-T), the European Commission issued, in December 2013, the new guidelines for its implementation and its financial instrument Connecting Europe Facility (CEF). While the attainment of an all-integrated European area at the service of the single market … [Read more...]
AER continues its information cycle on European funding
Which funding sources for which topics from 2014 onwards? The question is at the heart of the AER information cycle on European funding, which kicked-off in September, and was pursued at the occasion of two sessions, held on 29 October in Strasbourg and on 5 November in Brussels. Information session on funding opportunities for youth-related projects The objective was to … [Read more...]
Black Sea: How to finance interregional cooperation projects?
This question was at the heart of the Training Academy, which took place on 3 October in Rize (TR), on the eve of the 4th AER Black Sea Regions Summit. The training focused on the EU programme for the Black Sea but also on other funding sources, such as the Black Sea Trust for regional cooperation. Thanks to the input of the joint Managing Authority and through the advice of … [Read more...]
EC Directive 2012/27/EU: Can Europe reach its Energy Efficiency targets?
While the perspectives of the EU 2020 targets for reduction of greenhouse gases and increase in renewable energy are promising, those for Energy Efficiency (EE) remain a challenge for most EU regions. Concerned by this prerogative, the EC Directive on EE establishes a common framework of measures for the promotion of EE and aims to remove barriers in the energy market. … [Read more...]
Effective energy policies in view of the EU2020 burden-sharing targets
With the overall objective of boosting investments for Renewable Energy Sources (RES) and Energy Efficiency, 15 peers from Abruzzo (IT), Flevoland (NL), Maramures (RO), Norrbotten (SE), Sofia (BG) and the AER met in Lazio (IT) in order to undertake the 9th Regional Peer Review within the Regions4GreenGrowth INTERREG IVC project. During the 5-day visit, peers discovered the … [Read more...]
EU Executive Training Programme: final call for 2013 applications
European SMEs still depend largely on their domestic markets despite the opportunities brought by the enlarged single market and by globalization at large. In order to step up the internationalisation capacity of SMEs, the European Commission has set up training programmes for European business leaders and managers, to gear up their knowledge of foreign markets, cultures, … [Read more...]
AER regions join forces to pursue the Eastern Partnership Initiative beyond 2014
The Assembly of European Regions (AER), together with the Ukrainian Region of Dnipropetrovsk, organised last 26 April 2013 a conference which gathered 150 European, national and regional political representatives. The purpose of this gathering was to discuss how interregional cooperation can be boosted in the context of the ‘Eastern Partnership’, the Eastern dimension of the … [Read more...]
Funds for interregional cooperation: Conclusions of info session by AER
INTERREG is not the only instrument for regions to finance interregional cooperation in the EU. Regional Operational Programmes can also allow for interregional cooperation via Article 37.6.b of the current General regulation. As this funding opportunity is often ill-known by regional authorities, the AER joined forces with INTERACT to organise an information session on 26 … [Read more...]
Integrated care: beginning of an ambitious project
What is the added value of integrated care? Integrated care is about closing the traditional gap that exists between health and social care: exploring and demonstrating its potential is the mission of the SmartCare, a project co-funded by the European Commission under the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Policy Support Programme. To this end, SmartCare will … [Read more...]
Peer reviews on creating innovative companies
Smart Europe Regional Peer Review in Veneto: intense, challenging, productive! Boosting the creation of innovative companies In the context of the Smart Europe INTERREG IVC project, 10 experts from AER, ALMI, Maramures, Flevoland, Patras and Bologna joined forces and brains for a one-week Peer Review in Veneto (I), from 25 February to 1 March. In order to find out how … [Read more...]
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