AER is informing member regions about the opportunities for investing in health under the future EU Cohesion Policy. Health as such is not an explicit priority of the future Cohesion Policy, but there are numerous opportunities to invest in health, by investing in innovation, ICT, training health staff or improving access to services. The AER information campaign “Future Cohesion Policy & Health” educates regional politicians and officers on how to think outside the box, develop project ideas that are labelled innovation and in fact benefit health and, most importantly, start putting forward their ideas for projects. EU Cohesion Policy 2014+ is still being debated at EU level, but in the regions the work of setting priorities has already started so regions needs to act now.
