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COP22: the final countdown

28 June, 2016 By Johanna Pacevicius

One of the major achievements of COP21 was to underline the central role of regional and non-State stakeholders to protect natural resources, reduce global warming and mitigate its effects. At ... 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

Summer Academy: registrations now open!

7 June, 2016 By Johanna Pacevicius

Registrations for the 2016 AER Summer Academy in Østfold (NO) are now open! This mutual learning event on youth entrepreneurship will take place from 16 to 19 August and will ... Read More

Re-connecting with the French regions

27 May, 2016 By Editor

Following the meeting on 20 May between AER President Dr Hande Özsan Bozatli, Secretary General Mathieu Mori and the new politicians from the Ile-de-France region, three more French regions have ... Read More

A more efficient implementation of environmental policies through the regions

20 May, 2016 By Editor

“It is useless to come with directives, regulations and strategies if they are not implemented“: Karmenu Vella, Commissioner for Environment, Maritime Affairs and Fisheries, opened the meeting with the delegation led ... Read More

Laurent of Belgium supports AER on environmental issues and sustainability

18 May, 2016 By Editor

AER President Dr Hande Özsan Bozatli and Laurent of Belgium made official their cooperation agreement on 17 May. The background of the collaboration is the growing environmental and climate challenges ... Read More

Press conference, AER President Dr Hande Özsan Bozatli and Laurent of Belgium

18 May, 2016 By Elin Berglie

Promote your region’s innovative policies on Employment

4 May, 2016 By Editor

The Zero Project -an organisation focusing on the rights and inclusion of people with disabilities, and one of our partner network- has opened a call for nomination (deadline: 15 May) 1.What ... Read More

Learning from the European Regions: my Experience as an intern at AER

30 April, 2016 By Editor

Tomaso Comazzi AER intern on External Relations

Today is Tomaso Comazzi’s last day as intern at the AER Brussels Office. Before moving on, we asked him to share his experience from working with us. Tomaso, which are ... Read More

Time to Make the EU’s Single Market Fit for the Digital Age

25 April, 2016 By Editor

Digitalization Transforms Our world On 21 of April, Press Club Europe Brussels hosted the European Confederation of Directors Associations – ecoDa 2016 Annual Conference. The theme of the conference was ... Read More

AER/SEO new agreement to foster regions’ connectivity

18 April, 2016 By Agnese Pantaloni

AER is happy to launch a new partnership agreement with SEO Amsterdam Economics. The partnership enables AER members to take advantage from SEO’s in-depth knowledge of regional connectivity analysis. SEO’s ... Read More

Catalonia (ES) leading regions on youth policies

14 April, 2016 By Editor

Election of a New Chairwoman of AER Sub-Committee on Youth. Ms Marta Vilalta, General Director For Youth of the Catalan Government was elected Chairwoman of the AER Sub-Committee on Youth ... Read More

Early school leaving: working group meets at AER plenary

13 April, 2016 By Johanna Pacevicius

The first presentation on the working group meetings in Timis was about the efforts and achievements to combat drop-out in Catalonia by the representatives of the Employment Service of Catalonia ... Read More

Women Entrepreneurship Academy

5 April, 2016 By Editor

Discover the good Equal Opportunities idea of the week! At the initiative of AER Vice President for Equal Opportunities, Anna Tomanova Makanova, members of the AER executive board met representatives ... Read More

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