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

Self esteem key to combat school dropouts

25 March, 2016 By Johanna Pacevicius

Early school leaving (ESL), is a growing severe problem in Europe which has long-term effects on economic growth, societal developments and individuals. The future of Europe depends on young people’s ... Read More

AER Delegation visit to Northern Italy

23 March, 2016 By Editor

Following a first trip to Spain, last month to meet with AER member and non-member regions, an AER delegation composed of the AER President, Dr. Hande Özsan Bozatli; the President of the ... Read More

AER/EC on Erasmus+ and European Voluntary Service

21 March, 2016 By Agnese Pantaloni

In view of scheduled meeting with commissioner Tibor Navracsics, AER met the European Commission – Directorate General for Education and Culture to bring the perspective of regions and to get ... Read More

Erasmus+ Key Action 3: Policy Reform Call

10 March, 2016 By Agnese Pantaloni

Erasmus+ aims at boosting skills and employability, and modernising Education, Training and Youth work, providing opportunities for over 4 million Europeans to study, train, gain work experience and volunteer abroad. In addition to ... Read More

Fourth muliplier event on school dropouts: getting to the next level

19 January, 2016 By Johanna Pacevicius

Partners of the ERASMUS+ project Joint Efforts to Combat School Dropouts met last week in Västernorrland for a seminar and workshop on ways to help early school leavers to re-enter the ... Read More

Moscopole was the cultural center of the Aromanians

5 January, 2016 By Editor

Moscopole (Voskopojë) is a magical tourist green village that combines with its rich culture, traditions and landscape harmoniously unified to give a permanent tourist value. It is located at a distance of ... Read More

Erasmus+ programme guide is out!

23 November, 2015 By Johanna Pacevicius

The Erasmus+ programme guide has just been published, it is available in English only. Beware the deadline for candidacies is now 2 february 2016 at noon. The guide is a ... Read More

School dropouts: peer learning essential for better policy-making

5 November, 2015 By Editor

In the framework of the AER Committees’ Autumn Plenary Sessions, from 2-4 November (Hampshire-UK), the working group on schol dropouts met to share the findings from the Erasmus+ JET-CD project ... Read More

Invitation to the European Conference Think European – act local

14 October, 2015 By Editor

Youth 2015 – recommendations for Europe, 18 November 2015 10.30 am to 5.00 pm, Committee of Regions, Brussels The second conference on the EU Youth Strategy and the role of the ... Read More

Nordland (NO) always looking for more AER

13 October, 2015 By Editor

Today, AER welcomed a delegation from Nordland fylkeskommune (AER member region from Norway) in AER Brussels office, explaining the organisation, discussing possible cooperation and learning that Nordland has a strong ... Read More

Youth Entrepreneurship Strategies – Final publication

12 October, 2015 By Editor

Presentation brochure of the Youth Entrepreneurship Strategies (YES) project. Table of contents: Final conference Final output: the Regional Action Plan (RAP) Recommendations for entrepreneurship education in Europe Project results and conclusions Inter-regional SWOT analysis ... Read More

GMF hosts event on the importance of Subnational Diplomacy

7 October, 2015 By Editor

October 7, 2015, Washington, DC: The German Marshall Fund hosted the opening reception for the Washington, D.C. leg of Our Cities, Our Climate: A Bloomberg Philanthropies – U.S. Department of State Partnership ... Read More

Farmers leave their fields to protest in Brussels

11 September, 2015 By Editor

6000 farmers gathered in Brussels on the occasion of the Agriculture and Fisheries Council on Monday 7 September. Jan Jacob Van Dijk, Chairman of the AER working group on rural ... Read More

Regions on their way to integrated e-care

23 June, 2015 By Editor

The dynamic of the SmartCare project is quite unique in that it brings together regions with very different profiles: while a first group of regions is deploying integrated e-care services, ... Read More

Promote your inclusive education and/or ICT projects

20 June, 2015 By Editor

Zero Project launches call for nominations on Inclusive education and/or ICTs Education is the fundamental process by which societies transmit their accumulated information and knowledge, in which Information and Communication ... Read More