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Committee 3 Progress Report Spring 2018

8 March, 2018 By Johanna Pacevicius

Twice a year the members of the AER Committee on Culture, Education and Youth gather in plenary meeting. This is the opportunity to set goals for cooperation through the elaboration ... Read More

Committee 2 Progress Report Spring 2018

7 March, 2018 By Johanna Pacevicius

Twice a year the members of the AER Committee on Social Policy and Public Health gather in plenary meeting. This is the opportunity to set goals for cooperation through the ... Read More

Committee 1 Progress Report Spring 2018

7 March, 2018 By Johanna Pacevicius

Twice a year the members of the AER Committee on Regional Development and Economy gather in plenary meeting. This is the opportunity to set goals for cooperation through the elaboration ... Read More

Regionalisation in Montenegro: not regions, but municipalities #RoR2017

19 February, 2018 By Editor

An ancient Balkan state, Montenegro came under Ottoman control at the end of the 15th century, but became an independent kingdom from 1910 to 1918. Montenegro then joined the newly ... Read More

Regionalisation in Lithuania: an ongoing debate on regional reforms #RoR2017

12 February, 2018 By Editor

Essentially, the definition “region” in Lithuania is associated with three types of territorial units: administrative units of the state territory of higher level – counties (apskritys); ethnocultural regions; territorial units ... 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

Regionalisation in Macedonia: no longer one of the most centralised countries in Europe #RoR2017

15 January, 2018 By Editor

The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) was a constituent state of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia until 1991. Despite experiencing considerable decentralisation in the Yugoslavian period, after independence ... 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

Youth and citizens, European programmes to support good ideas

14 December, 2017 By Luca Magri

The end of the year is a time for good resolutions. The AER Bureau gathered its brilliant representatives to adopt AER’s new political priorities for 2018-2019. Youth and citizenships were very ... Read More

Regionalisation in Poland: modifying territorialisation while acknowledging different regional identities #RoR2017

20 November, 2017 By Editor

A little history of Poland Poland is a country in Central Europe. In the early Middle Ages, Poland’s small principalities and townships were subjugated by successive waves of invaders, such ... Read More

Outcome of Executive board meeting (Nancy 12/09/17)

2 October, 2017 By Mathieu Mori

As the next Executive Board (EB) meeting is around the corner, here is a short recap of the main outcome of the last one. The second executive meeting for the ... Read More

Regionalisation in Germany: the advantages of a federal state

18 September, 2017 By Editor

Autonomous Länders Germany is a federal state, composed of 16 regions (Länder). The federal structure of 1949 was designed by representatives of the already existing Länder in the Parliamentarian Council ... Read More

Committee 3 Progress report 2017

31 August, 2017 By Johanna Pacevicius

Twice a year the members of the AER Committee on Culture, Education and Youth gather in plenary meeting. This is the opportunity to set goals for cooperation through the elaboration ... Read More

The rise of regional electoral democracy

28 August, 2017 By Editor

Democratic governance in Europe has dramatically changed over the past four decades. The institutions of the European Union have accumulated important policy-making powers in areas such as the monetary and ... Read More

Regionalisation in Luxembourg: municipalities reign, but are merging

16 August, 2017 By Editor

The Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, one of the world smallest countries, is located in North- Western Europe. It lost part of its territories to France (1659), Prussia (later Germany, 1815) ... Read More
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