This is the tag for all policy news relating to education.

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

Interested in prevention and early intervention of behavioural problems in schools?

16 January, 2017 By Editor

Education is arguably essential to the development and improvement of the lives of young people. Indeed, a myriad of factors can affect the pupil’s progress in school along with that ... Read More

Migrants, asylum seekers and refugees under the spot: two new funding opportunities

13 January, 2017 By Luca Magri

Migrants and refugees are on the top of the European Commission agenda since the flow of people coming to Europe blow up. AER is also closely following this topic big very ... Read More

Q&A: Regions as partners for youth?

13 January, 2017 By Editor

The Assembly of European Regions has a long history supporting youth issues, with a particular focus on lifelong learning and economic development since its creation in 1985. A recent example of ... Read More

Call for European partners: empowering volunteer instructors/teachers

13 December, 2016 By Agnese Pantaloni

DINAMO is a Belgian independent non-profit organisation that organises education for adults. Remarkably, all of their courses, workshops and outings are given or led by volunteer experts and instructors. Ten professional team ... 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

AER reacquainting with Italian regions

7 December, 2016 By Editor

Following the decision of the AER Executive Board, widely supported by the General Assembly, to strengthen the links between the Assembly of European Regions and the Italian regions, an AER ... Read More

Partner search on entrepreneurship support schemes for the Syrian migrant community

5 December, 2016 By Agnese Pantaloni

A member of the Assembly of European Regions, Kahramanmaras Metropolitan Municipality (Turkey), is going to submit a new project within the Call for Proposals for Migrants Entrepreneurship Support Schemes launched ... Read More

Cultural heritage & the environment

30 November, 2016 By Editor

Natural disasters and extreme climate-related events are among some of the risks that are threatening the livelihood of cultural heritage sites. Indeed, climate change is negatively impacting the preservation of ... Read More

YRN members take bold decisions on the future of their organisation

25 November, 2016 By Editor

Gathered for their Plenary meeting in the County of Vrancea (Romania) from 18 to 20 November 2016, the delegates from the AER Youth Regional Network (YRN) took strong decisions on ... Read More

The European Solidarity Corps: Acting for Europe (video)

24 November, 2016 By Editor

Although Mr Joseph Jammar, Head of Representation of the European Commission in Belgium could not take part in the Eurodyssey Forum in Cyprus, he prepared a video message for the participants ... 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

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

Sustainable mobility: the way forward

7 November, 2016 By Johanna Pacevicius

The modernisation and democratisation of means of transports have radically changed how we perceive distances and the world in general. At the same time resource scarcity, climate change and geopolitical ... Read More