At the AER Spring Committee meetings in London, the region of Brussels-Capital (BE) was recognised in the #ShineBright session in recognition of its leading role in the 2016 Regional Innovation Award. The region of Brussels Capital last year gave a new impulse to the AER Regional Innovation Award which was focused on the circular economy. The awarding ceremony was combined with … [Read more...]
#ShineBright Västernorrland
At the AER Spring Committee meetings in London, the region of Västernorrland was recognised in the #ShineBright session for its particularly active participation in Committee 3 in the field of education and more specifically in combatting early school leaving. Early school leaving is a major threat in Europe and Västernorrland have managed to bring together a whole group of … [Read more...]
Youth mental health: pressing needs across Europe
On the occasion of the AER Spring plenaries, regional policy makers from wider Europe made a point on working together on the topic of youth mental health and improve regional policies in the field. Health, youth and the future of Europe The difficulty for young people to relate to others is a growing severe problem across Europe as was identified by AER members on the … [Read more...]
ALEC: a success story
The fifth edition of the Artic Light E-health Conference in Norrbotten is an opportunity to look back on one of the major achievements of the AER e-health network. The event brought together 300 participants from 16 countries in the world this year around the themes of digital transformation & health equity. Scale e-health awareness The AER e-health network was created back … [Read more...]
E-health: how to find a common language?
Regional governments and their stakeholders, in particular, companies shared experiences on 1 December 2016 at the "E-health: let's find a common language" event hosted by Brussels Capital at the Committee of the Regions. The event aimed at providing participants with information on funding opportunities in the field of healthcare, new connections, tested ideas to improve … [Read more...]
Education, Training and Youth Forum 2016
Connecting Education, the Labour Market and Society: Delivering the New Skills Agenda for Europe Brussels, 20-21 October 2016 The European Education, Training and Youth Forum is an annual event which brings together key stakeholders in education, training and youth. This year's Forum was focused on how to best deliver on the New Skills Agenda for Europe adopted by the … [Read more...]
Youth empowerment & employment
What is the role of the AER network for youth empowerment and employment? The Assembly of European Regions has a history of working on participation and inclusion and more specifically on youth empowerment. Since its creation in 1985 the network has had youth, lifelong learning and economic development in its core topics. This is how for instance the AER youth work placement … [Read more...]
Culture & inclusion: call for contributions
Sharing experiences Within the framework of the AER Subcommittee on Culture, Västerbotten is carrying out an inventory of good practices on culture & inclusion. Several regions have already sent their good practices on this topic. It's not too late to contribute and highlight a succesful example from your region. It doesn't need to be a large-scale initiative, actions need … [Read more...]
AER Observatory on Regionalisation contribution on regional diversity
The AER Observatory on Regionalisation (Enrico Martial and Alexandre Brecx) took part on 21 April 2016 in the first Jean Monnet seminar in Lille focusing on the heterogeneity of the regions inside the EU. French author Edith Lormel wrote about the main findings in an interesting article recently published on the website La documentation française. The article makes a review of … [Read more...]
Catalonia (ES) leading regions on youth policies
Election of a New Chairwoman of AER Sub-Committee on Youth. Ms Marta Vilalta, General Director For Youth of the Catalan Government was elected Chairwoman of the AER Sub-Committee on Youth on 13 April 2016 in Timis (RO) at the AER Spring Committee Meetings. She will be leading the work of the Sub-Committee to promote the key issues related to youth policies in Europe with AER … [Read more...]
Early school leaving: working group meets at AER plenary
The first presentation on the working group meetings in Timis was about the efforts and achievements to combat drop-out in Catalonia by the representatives of the Employment Service of Catalonia (ES). This regional organization is also a partner of the Erasmus+ JET CD project. Catalunya also chairs the AER Subcommittee on Youth. Report on JET-CD project The … [Read more...]
Mobility: smart and connected regions
With the digitalisation of the economy and the growing weight of data management, the AER Working Group on Transports has decided to widen its remit. The working group will now work on the different aspects of mobility and transports from a regional perspective. Smart mobility The themes the AER Working Group on Transports will focus include for instance: -connectivity and … [Read more...]
AER Monitoring & Evaluation Group (MEG)
The AER Monitoring and Evaluation Group (MEG) is responsible for: Monitoring and evaluating the implementation of the mission and objectives of AER, in compliance with the provisions of the Statutes and the Procedures; The efficient and sound use of financial and human resources. The group will assess the outcomes of the actions and activities and make strategic … [Read more...]
AER Observatory on regionalisation (currently discontinued)
The AER Observatory on Regionalisation is discontinued for the time being. Regionalisation in Europe Monitoring regionalisation has always been one of the main missions and objectives of the Assembly of European Regions. Keeping track of the developments in all European countries, in terms of decentralisation, subsidiarity, multi-level governance and regional democracy … [Read more...]
AER Procedures
(Adopted by the AER General Assembly 14 October 2022) Article 1 – Drafting, adoption and modification of the Procedures 1.1 Drafting, adoption and modifications of the Rules of Procedure are specified in the Statute. 1.2 The English version of the AER Statute is the reference. Article 2 – Observers 2.1 The status of observer according to the present Statute is granted for a … [Read more...]
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