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Project proposals on green buildings: looking for partners!

2 February, 2017 By Editor

Following the Brokerage Event “Going green in Seventeen” jointly organised by AER and ERRIN, we are glad to share with AER member regions two project proposals on green buildings that have ... Read More

Successfully “Going green in Seventeen” – brokerage event on green projects

1 February, 2017 By Editor

The joint AER-ERRIN brokerage event “Going green in Seventeen” which was held in Brussels, Belgium on 19 January 2017, was a great success. With a focus on Horizon 2020 energy ... Read More

2017 Elections: call for nominations for the General Assembly and Committees

1 February, 2017 By Editor

Per AER Statute and Procedures, elections for the Executive Board and the Election Committee and ratification of the members of the Bureau will occur at the General Assembly in St. ... Read More

Impact investments: sustainable returns to society

16 January, 2017 By Editor

With the economic and financial crisis of the recent years, governments had to commit themselves to balance their budget and reduce public debt and deficit. These constraints have put limits to ... Read More

Partner search: food surpluses and/or secondary flows

16 January, 2017 By Editor

KOMOSIE (Koepel van Milieuondernemers in de Sociale Economie) is the non-profit umbrella organisation of recognised reuse centres and energy savers in Flanders. Since 2013 Komosie has been building up a new ... Read More

A recognition of excellence

15 December, 2016 By Johanna Pacevicius

The 2016 European Summit on Innovation for Active and Healthy Ageing was an opportunity to highlight the excellent initiatives from regions across Europe. The Summit brought together diverse stakeholders to ... Read More

Are you interested to develop a project on education & skills for young innovators?

13 December, 2016 By Agnese Pantaloni

We are happy to share with you a project proposal from a key stakeholder of our member region Umbria (IT) who is looking for a partner to lead the project ... Read More

Looking for EU partners: social employment & elderly care

12 December, 2016 By Agnese Pantaloni

In different European countries, the European Social Fund agencies are launching calls for transnational collaboration. In Belgium, Flanders different projects were approved to go to the second phase. In this ... Read More

E-health: how to find a common language?

1 December, 2016 By Johanna Pacevicius

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 ... Read More

And the winner is…

30 November, 2016 By Editor

The region of Brussels-Capital (BE) and the Province of Noord-Brabant (NL) were recognised in the 10th AER Regional Innovation Award on 30 November in the framework of the series of events ... Read More

EU Cohesion Policy and its governance: an academic debate

26 November, 2016 By Editor

On 9 November 2016, the European Committee of the Regions (CoR) organised a conference to present and debate on the “Handbook on Cohesion Policy in the EU”, edited by Prof ... Read More

EFSI: a concrete opportunity for regions

24 November, 2016 By Editor

The Investment Plan for Europe, also known as “Juncker Plan“, adapted in 2014, is built around three pillars: the European Fund for Strategic Investment (EFSI) the European Investment Project Portal ... Read More

Health innovation ecosystems: who’s in?

23 November, 2016 By Johanna Pacevicius

(If you feel you understand all of the words of the title but not the title itself, please read through, you will be seeing clearly soon) E-health, economic growth ... Read More

Committees plenaries: results for projects, good practice exchange and lobbying

17 November, 2016 By Johanna Pacevicius

During the joint plenaries delegates had the opportunity to participate in 2 workshops aimed at identifying project ideas, topics for good practices and lobbying activities to be carried out within ... Read More

Committee elections in Izmir

17 November, 2016 By Editor

The AER Committees were in Izmir from 7-10 November for the Autumn Committees Plenaries at which time elections took place for the open positions. We would like to congratulate Mr ... Read More