This is the tag for all posts relating to citizen participation.

Street Art Will Take Centre Stage at AER’s Summer Academy

10 April, 2018 By Editor

At AER’s 2018 Summer Academy in Maramures, attendees will partake in a series of exciting, cutting-edge workshops planned by Brussels International. In the first workshop focused on graffiti, delegates will ... Read More

Updates on ENSURE project

27 March, 2018 By Editor

Alba County Council, Romania is one of 14 partners of the international project ENSURE, which stands for European Network for the Cohesion and Solidarity in Rural Areas. The partners representing ... Read More

Governance, a new topic for the Horizon 2020 programme

31 January, 2018 By Luca Magri

Funding Opportunity The Horizon 2020 Programme is the main source of funding to implement front running and innovative ideas. Several calls for projects pointing out governance as main topic have been published ... Read More

Town Twinning: Connecting Europe and Turkey

12 January, 2018 By Editor

AER is glad to announce the launch of the Town Twinning Action Between Turkey and the EU Grant Scheme (TTGS). The aim of the programme is to create sustainable structures ... Read More

#ShineBright Västerbotten’ sustainable & innovative social development

16 October, 2017 By Editor

On the Occasion of the Regional Innovation Award on Circular Economy, ShineBright on the region of Västerbotten, in Sweden that presented its project The Innovation Loop – an ecosystem for ... Read More

#ShineBright Canton of Fribourg develops childhood-youth policy

24 July, 2017 By Editor

On the occasion of the 2017 AER MYFER award, ShineBright on the Canton of Fribourg in Switzerland, that presented its project “Je participe !/Ich mache mit!” (I participate). The initiative ... Read More

YRN at the European Platform on Learning Mobility

12 May, 2017 By Editor

The Youth Regional Network (YRN) participated in the Steering Group meeting of the European Platform on Learning Mobility (EPLM) that took place on 17-18 May in Bordeaux (FR). YRN was ... Read More

Join the EU pilot-initiative “Interreg Volunteer Youth”

7 April, 2017 By Mathieu Mori

The Interreg Volunteer Youth (IVY) initiative is part of the broader European Solidarity Corps Initiative launched by the European Commission in December 2016. IVY officially started on 1st March 2017 ... Read More

Women entrepreneurship and citizenship in Guadeloupe

23 January, 2017 By Editor

As women entrepreneurship is an important issue in which the Assembly of European Regions is involved, we featured the Youth Women Win project in one of our success stories from ... Read More

Europe for Citizens: 2017 deadlines are published

15 December, 2016 By Luca Magri

The European project stands on the participation of their citizens. Without a feeling of ownership the European Union can not exist as we know. Based also on this consideration, the ... Read More

Inclusion and participation of European Citizens in host countries: call for proposals

15 December, 2016 By Luca Magri

Democracy is the core of our living together and the civic and political participation its more natural expression. Since several years the European Commission and the other European Institutions have ... Read More

Looking for partners: project on living with Islam

8 December, 2016 By Agnese Pantaloni

The Autonomous Region of Navarra (Spain) – General Directorate for Peace, Coexistence and Human Rights is looking for partners in order to apply for a project concerning the Coexistence with Islam, in ... Read More

Youth empowerment & employment

14 October, 2016 By Johanna Pacevicius

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 ... Read More

Final conference school dropout: Just another brick in the wall?

24 June, 2016 By Johanna Pacevicius

Young people are the future Yet judging by the figures the perspectives are rather gloomy: according to Eurostats, one sixth of all young people were neither in employment nor in ... Read More

Cllr Roy Perry (Hampshire-UK) on UK referendum

22 June, 2016 By Elin Berglie

Cllr Roy Perry (Hampshire-UK) could not attend our General Assembly in Bodø last June due to his responsibilities in the Remain campaign for the UK referendum. However, he sent this ... Read More