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SUMMARY:2021 Innovation Show - How Smart is Your Food?
DESCRIPTION:We live in a world where thanks to technology\, everything is getting “smarter”. \nOur watches monitor our blood-pressure\, our cars can drive themselves\, and since the pandemic\, the high-rise\, multi-story workspaces that dominate our city skylines have been replaced by “virtual” meeting rooms we can carry around in our pockets. \nBut can the food that we eat get “smarter”\, too?  The answer is Yes! \nSmart…food?\nInnovation in food systems is allowing us to develop food that is more nutritious\, more resource-efficient and cheaper to produce. This has huge potential to address many of the great\, global challenges we face. Everything from fighting climate change\, improving global health to promoting gender equality can benefit from advances in food technology and improvements in various levels of the food system. \nWe all have a stake in the future of food innovation. Innovation at all stages of the food value chain is a topic mobilising everyone from scientists and farmers\, to politicians\, NGOs and the private sector. Local and regional authorities have a key role to play here; acting as an interlocutor between stakeholders on the ground\, building partnerships\, fostering collaboration and driving innovation. \nAn innovative show in an innovative format\nThat’s why on 3 March 2021\, the AER\, in partnership with Gelderland Province in the Netherlands is bringing you the 2021 Innovation Show!  \nThe 2021 Innovation Show asks the question “How Smart is Your Food?”  This will be a unique\, hybrid event hosted live from Gelderland Studio bringing together policymakers\, entrepreneurs and experts to field ideas\, find synergies and innovate together. \nWhat you can expect\nThis event will be an opportunity to: \n\nShare experiences from regions on the development and impact of smart food and smart food value chains;\nHear what challenges and opportunities stakeholders see in the food innovation field;\nExamine the role of regions and what new roles are emerging;\nDiscuss the social and economic impact of food innovation\, and what this means for policymakers;\nShare perspectives the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on innovation\, especially when it comes to funding.\n\n \n  \n \n  \n 
URL:https://aer.eu/events/register-now-2021-innovation-show-how-smart-is-your-food/
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SUMMARY:National Recovery & Resilience Plans - Working Together in Renewed Partnership with Regions
DESCRIPTION:Date: 4 March \nTime: 16:00 – 17:30 CEST \nIn response to the impacts and challenges posed by COVID-19\, the European Commission\, the European Parliament and the Council agreed on a Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF). The RRF will offer support for investments and reforms undertaken by Member States to make their economies and societies more sustainable\, resilient and better prepared to meet the challenges and opportunities presented by the green and digital transitions. \nIn order to access the funding\, Member States will have to produce and submit National Recovery Plans by April 2021. \nLocal and regional authorities play a vital role in addressing the short and long-term social and economic impacts of the COVID-19 crisis. However\, a consultation run by the European Committee of the Regions and Council of European Municipalities and Regions found that the involvement of municipalities\, cities and regions in the preparation of the national Recovery and Resilience Plans has been limited and rather unstructured. \nTherefore this timely webinar\, brought to you in partnership with the Government of Catalonia\, will: \n\nReflect on the role of regional authorities in shaping and implementing national investment projects and reforms to deliver a fair and sustainable recovery;\nSpur debate on how to more effectively involve local and regional authorities in the design and implementation of National Recovery and Resilience Plans\, and;\n\nThis panel debate will bring together regional authorities and EU representatives\, and we are delighted we can already announce we will be joined by: \n\n\nJohannes Luebking\, Principal Adviser\, Recovery and Resilience Task Force\, European Commission\nDragoș Pîslaru\, Member of the European Parliament and Co-Rapporteur on the Recovery and Resilience Facility\nRosa D’Amato\, Member of the European Parliament\nMichael Murphy\, Chair of the European Committee of the Regions’ Commission for Economic Policy\nMichiel Rijsberman\, Member of the European Committee of the Regions\, Regional Minister of the Province of Flevoland\nElisabet Nebreda\, Secretary for Foreign Action and the EU\,  Government of Catalonia\nAlbert Castellanos [moderator]\, AER Vice President for Sustainability\, Government of Catalonia
URL:https://aer.eu/events/webinar-national-recovery-resilience-plans-working-together-in-renewed-partnership-with-regions/
LOCATION:Online
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SUMMARY:Advocacy Training for Young European Activists - Europe is what you make of it!
DESCRIPTION:The Assembly of European Regions\, in partnership with JEF\, is organising a training seminar on advocacy that will offer 30 young Europeans the opportunity to enhance their knowledge of the European Institutions and the Youth Strategy\, as wells as develop advocacy plans to promote their rights and priorities among local and regional authorities. \nThe training seminar is being organised as part of the “Y-FED: Europe is what we make of it” project. The Y-FED project is co-funded by the Erasmus+ Programme of the EU with the aim of empowering youth in the European and regional political dialogues and\, in turn\, building an Europe that it is closer to its young citizens. \n\nThe training seminar will be held from the 4th to the 6th of March 2021 in an online learning format and will be conducted in English. \nIt will adopt methodologies from non-formal education to provide young citizens with the necessary competences and resources to boost their active citizenship. It includes sessions on the European Youth Strategy and its Youth Goals leading to the development of regional and local advocacy plans focused on one out of the eleven European Youth Goals. \nThroughout the training seminar\, young citizens will develop the knowledge\, attitudes and skills necessary to become Youth-Ambassadors in their local and regional contexts. At the same time they will design\, organise and implement advocacy actions at a local and regional level. As a result of the training\, participants will: \n\nStrengthen advocacy skills; \nStrengthen advocacy tools;\nBecome acquainted with the European Youth Goals;\nDevelop knowledge on the principles of multi-level governance and subsidiarity;\nDevelop the skills to interact with decision-makers;\nDevelop an advocacy plan.\n\nThe training seminar will be composed three modules that will be completed throughout 10 hours. \nWelcome and Introduction   (Thursday 4th March  17:30 – 18:1o CET) \nThe training will be opened by AER Secretary General\, Christian Spahr\, who will welcome the participants and share the objectives of the Y-FED project and the training seminar. \nA round of ice-breaking presentation will take place before the kick of the sessions so to know more about the participants\, their motivation to attend the training and expectations. \n1. Thursday 4th March\, 18:00 – 20:00 CET  European Module: The European Youth Strategy 2019-2027 and the European Youth Goals\nThe training seminar will start with the introduction to the European Union Youth Strategy 2019-2027 and the European Youth Goals\, which outline the main challenges that young people face in their daily lives and present the vision for a Europe that enables young people to realise their full potential. \n2. Module on Youth and Regions: How can young people be engaged in the political development of their region? (Friday 5th March\, 18:10 – 20:10 CET)\nThis session will focus on enhancing participants’ knowledge on the principles of multi-level governance and subsidiarity and deepening the understanding of active youth participation in the democratic and political life at regional and local level. \nThis session will be accompanied by some practice examples on how young people can be engaged in the political life of their regions. The module will analyse and present several examples from across Europe about how local and regional authorities have been involving their young citizens in the development\, implementation and evaluation of youth policies\, and other policies that are most relevant to them. These good practices will serve as the ground for the development of participants’ advocacy plans. \n3. Module on advocacy: Introduction to advocacy and development of an advocacy plan (Saturday 6th March\, 10:00 – 13:00;  14:00 – 17:00 CET)\nThe objective of this module is to build participants’ competences and provide them with the tools required to advocate for youth participation at local\, regional\, and European levels. Trainees will work in groups of four and each group will jointly develop an advocacy strategy to advocate for one of the previously presented European Youth Goals and address the action to a regional authority from the following countries: Bulgaria\, Finland\, Germany\, Malta\, North Macedonia\, Poland\, Slovenia\, and Spain. \nThe developed advocacy strategy will serve the participants as a basis for the implementation of local and regional actions\, activity which will follow the training. \nClosing remarks and follow-up activities (Saturday 6th March\, 17:00 – 17:20) \nDOWNLOAD THE FULL PROGRAMME OF THE ADVOCACY TRAINING HERE!  \n\nFollowing the conclusion of the training seminar\, participants will have the chance to engage with local and regional authorities across Europe by participating at the AER Spring Bureau Meeting and implementing local advocacy actions. Additionally\, participants will be invited to submit the developed local advocacy plan and apply for micro-grants to actually implement the advocacy plans among their local and regional authorities with expert mentoring and under the coordination of the AER. \n 
URL:https://aer.eu/events/advocacy-training-for-young-european-activists-europe-is-what-you-make-of-it/
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SUMMARY:Territorial approaches to innovation: spotlight on rural areas
DESCRIPTION:We are pleased to invite you to two webinars that will look at the need for territorial approaches to innovation\, based on strong rural-urban links and ambitious and forward-looking skills strategies\n \n  \nWhat are the main challenges and opportunities for European regions and rural areas in particular when it comes to fostering innovation? These two events will provide an opportunity to share regional experiences and hear about support initiatives at EU level. \nThe events are part of the Skillnet webinar series AER is organising\, which provides an opportunity for mutual learning around topics identified by AER members. \n  \nAmbitious Skills and Innovation Strategies: A territorial Approach\nIn the context of regional innovation strategies\, rural areas should play an essential role\, not just as a source of raw material and places to locate space-intensive activities\, but as genuine partners. Place-based approaches call for cooperation at all levels and in particular between rural and urban territories or between disconnected territories.\n \nThe first webinar\, which will take place on 25 March 2021 at 10:00 CET\, will offer the opportunity to learn and exchange about regional policies and practices for ambitious skills and innovation strategies through territorial approaches. \nThis webinar will look at: \n\nwhy innovation strategies aimed at developing Advanced manufacturing need to be based on territorial approaches and why it is so important to consider and involve rural areas from the start\nstrategies to attract innovation and skills in rural areas \nthe role of TVET to achieve more cohesive regional development\n\nAgenda\nAmbitious Skills and Innovation Strategies:\nA territorial Approach\n25 March 2021 at 10:00 CET\n\n10.00-10.05 – Housekeeping rules\, quick presentation on Skillnet\, Valentina De Vico\, Communication Manager\, Skillman Team\n10:05-10:10 – Opening remarks and introduction to the webinar\, Johanna Pacevicius\, Policy and Knowledge Transfer Coordinator\, Assembly of European Regions\n10.10-10.20 –  Available EU funding and incentives\, Agnese Pantaloni\, EU Projects Coordinator\, Assembly of European Regions\n10:20-10:35 – Peer reviews and knowledge exchanges to boost innovation\, Elena Ferrario\, Thematic Manager\, and Katharina Krell\, Thematic Expert\, Policy Learning Platform Interreg Europe\n10.35-10.45 – Regional practice from Donegal County\, Vinny McGroary\, Area Training Manager\, Donegal ETB\n10.45-10.55 – Panel discussion and Q&A session\n10.55-11.00 – Closing remarks \n\n  \n\n\nInnovation and farming: Applications of Advanced Manufacturing in the food value chain\nAs is the case in other industries\, agriculture is currently making extensive use of data mobility\, industry 4.0\, and new technologies that unlock productivity and cost savings. High-tech solutions are available to both local farming families and major agricultural corporations. \nThe second webinar\, which will take place on 26 March at 10:00 CET\, will highlight the existing use of advanced manufacturing in the agro-food sector and focus on skills strategies for this particular sector.\n \n  \nAgenda\nInnovation and farming: Applications of Advanced Manufacturing in the food value chain\n26 March at 10:00 CET\n\n10.00-10.05 – Housekeeping rules\, quick presentation on Skillnet\, Valentina De Vico\, Communication Manager\, Skillman Team\n10.05-10.10 – Opening remarks and introduction to the webinar\, Cornelia Carmen Madaras\, Advisor at the Foreign Affairs Office of the Alba County Council\n10.10-10.20 – Applications of digital technologies in the agriculture sector\, Miguel de Porras\, Director at the Research Institute of Organic Agriculture FIBL \n10.20-10.30 – Building innovation in the agri-food sector through EU projects\, George Beers\, Horticultural Engineer\, Wageningen University and Research\n10.30-10.40\, Regional practice from Vojvodina\, Mladen Petres\, Assistant Provincial Secretary of Agriculture\, Water Management and Forestry\, Province of Vojvodina\n10.40-10.55 – Panel discussion and Q&A session\n10.55-11.00 – Closing remarks \n\n \n\nHow to join the webinars\nClick on the above “register here” buttons (one registration per event) \nor go to the Skillnet events page and chose: \n\nE 419 – Ambitious skills and innovation strategies: a territorial approach; 25/03/2021 10:00 CET\nE 420 – Innovation and farming: application of Advanced Manufacturing in the food value chain; 26/03/2021 10:00 CET\n\nSave the date!\n\nThe events will take place on 25 and 26 March 2021 at 10:00 CET! \n\n\n\nWatch back!\n\n Ambitious skills & innovation strategies: A territorial approach  \nInnovation & Farming: Application of Advanced Manufacturing in the food value chain\n\n\n\nHandouts\n\nEU opportunities & resources \nInterreg Europe Policy Learning Platform  \nExperience from Donegal ETB \nApplication of digital technologies in the organic agriculture sector \n Building Innovation in the agri-food sector through EU projects  \nExperience from Vojvodina\n\n\n\n\n\nContacts\n\nj.pacevicius@aer.eu \nb.sandu@aer.eu\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis webinar is organised as part of the SKILLNET series of webinars on EU funding opportunities. SKILLNET is a project funded by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Commission aiming to strengthen the Vocational Education and Training (VET) system’s role and capacity to design high-quality VET programmes tailored to current societal needs through enhanced transnational and cross-sectoral partnerships. \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://aer.eu/events/territorial-innovation/
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