Who? After submitting the proposal of the Union of Cyprus Municipalities within the European Programme "Europe for Citizens", the European Commission decided to co-finance the cooperation between the Union of Cyprus Municipalities (UCM) and the Assembly of European Regions. What? In the first phase of the Pro-I3T project (March – October 2012) concrete and concise documents … [Read more...]

Lobbying before European and national political decision-makers Access to AER’s reports, positions, and contributions on a given theme Keeping watch over and monitoring European themes from a regional viewpoint Expert political analysis Accompanying members through the European decision-making process Advising members on strategical aspects of regional politics … [Read more...]

About AER Summer Academy The concept of the AER Summer Academy evolved in 1996 as a response to the increase in AER member regions coming from the countries of Central and Eastern Europe. These regions often had different needs to the traditional AER members from the countries of Western Europe. In particular, these new regions were trying to introduce new approaches to … [Read more...]

AER Office in Dnipropetrovsk Together with the AER Secretariat, the office in Dnipropetrovsk will pursue the following objectives: using of the best European practices of the regions of the EU countries and members of the Assembly of European Regions for the development of local government in Dnipropetrovsk region and any Ukrainian member of AER; implementation of … [Read more...]

The Bureau is the primary political voice of AER. It engages in issues of a pan-European and global nature emanating from members and establishes the political base for AER's advocacy work. It is the primary political voice of AER, meeting at least twice a year. The meetings will be open to the public, inviting international, interregional, regional and municipal organisations … [Read more...]

The General Assembly is the highest authority of AER and convenes representatives of all its full members. Associated members and observers are invited to participate and may address the assembly. However, they don’t have the right to vote. The General Assembly charges the Executive Board to implement its decisions. The General Assembly Approves the accounts of the … [Read more...]

15 June 1985 The Assembly of European Regions, AER, was formed 35 years ago, in a radically different world indeed. The founding regions met in Louvain-la-Neuve on 14-15 June 1985 and created the AER, which at the beginning was called CRE/CER (Conseil des Régions d'Europe / Council of European Regions). These regions were: Açores (PT), Alentejo (PT), Algarve (PT), Alsace (FR), … [Read more...]