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First European Regions Energy Summit by AER and GE Energy

26 May, 2009 By Editor

First European Regions Energy Summit Cologne 2009

AER and GE Energy come together to foster Europe’s future green energy plans on a regional level Cologne, PowerGen Europe, 26 May 2009 The Assembly of European Regions (AER) and GE Energy launched European Regions Energy Day, a joint initiative to examine the energy challenges facing European regions today and to promote their possible solutions. The ... Read More

Subsidiarity Coordinator (Closed)

16 June, 2009 By Editor

AER’s “Subsidiarity is a word” movement is recruiting a new leader to replace Subsidiarity Man, its unlikely suit-and-tie “superhero” Strasbourg (F)/ Brussels (B), 16th June 2009 In what is certain to be a European first, employment websites in Brussels and across Europe are this week carrying a vacancy notice for the post of “Superhero”. The ... Read More

On the road to Copenhagen… North American and European Regions Unite in Climate Change Fight

26 June, 2009 By Editor

Brussels, June 26th, 2009 “The Assembly of European Regions (AER) has been a long time activist in favour of a model of local governance that fully includes the development of green energies, both in Europe and in the frame of North/South relations. Thus have I very naturally given a favourable answer to your invitation, as ... Read More

AER Peer Reviews: Experts meet in Serbia to audit the region’s potential to produce energy from biomass

24 July, 2009 By Editor

ER Peer Reviews: Experts meet in Republika Srpska to audit the region's potential to produce electrical and thermal energy from biomass Banja Luka, Republika Srpska (BiH), 24 July 2009

Banja Luka, Republika Srpska (BiH), 24 July 2009 The Assembly of European Regions (AER) conducted a four-day energy audit in the Republika Srpska (Bosnia and Herzegovina-BiH), with the aim of assessing the region’s potential to produce electrical and thermal power from biomass resources, including wood, agricultural and municipal solid waste. Financially supported by the Central ... Read More

AER and Valencia region highlight role of regional cooperation in fighting the effects of climate change

26 August, 2009 By Editor

Valencia hosts 14th AER Summer School Valencia (E), 26 August 2009 AER secretary-general Klaus Klipp underlined in his speech at the 14th AER Summer School opening in Valencia the paramount importance that cooperation between regions in EU programmes and projects plays in tackling climate change. Mr. Klipp emphasised the need to create regional lobbies to ... Read More

AER energy experts kick off first MORE4NRG peer review

4 September, 2009 By Editor

Maramures (RO), 4 September 2009 The first energy audit in the framework of the MORE4NRG project was conducted this week in Maramures (RO), based on the Assembly of European Regions’ (AER) unique peer review methodology. The on site visit aimed to provide the host region with practical guidelines on how to create an effective ... Read More

AER Training Academy enters new season in Brussels

11 September, 2009 By Editor

Brussels (B), 11 September 2009 Focusing on the regions’ role in European decision-making, the first Assembly of European Regions’ (AER) Training Academy of the post-summer season concluded today in Brussels. Around 30 representatives from regional offices in Brussels attended the two-day training session, which included a study visit to the Council of the European Union. ... Read More

AER sets out what regions expect from the new Commission

17 September, 2009 By Editor

Göteborg (S), 17 September 2009 In the wake of José Manuel Barroso’s re-election as European Commission president, the political bureau of the Assembly of European Regions (AER) met yesterday and today in Göteborg, Sweden, to discuss what Europe’s leading organisation of regional authorities expects from the new Commission. The bureau session was hosted by ... Read More

Local government leaders gather in New York to meet UN Secretary General

21 September, 2009 By Editor

Raise awareness on their support to the Long Term Cooperative Action New York (USA), 21 September 2009 The delegation of local governments greeted on Monday by United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki Moon has accomplished its mission. Parallel to the 64th UN General Assembly, business, civil society and political leaders from around the world have ... Read More

AER and MORE4NRG bring regional solutions to energy challenge

23 September, 2009 By Editor

Sundsvall, Västernorrland (S), 23 September 2009 Politicians and energy experts from dozens of regions across Europe gathered in Sundsvall, Västernorrland (S) today to strengthen their commitment to developing renewable energy resources and energy efficiency in their territories. The Assembly of European Regions’ (AER) “Energy Efficiency – Regional Solutions for the Future” conference presented the first ... Read More

AER seminar on youth entrepreneurship: Regions Supporting Innovative Business and Social Profit

29 September, 2009 By Editor

AER seminar on youth entrepreneurship Sarajevo (BiH), 28 September 2009

Sarajevo (BiH), 29 September 2009 As Europe faces the global effects of climate change and economic recession, its regions came together yesterday and today to invest in the best resource available to tackle these challenges: Europe’s young people. In this European Year of Creativity and Innovation, an Assembly of European Regions (AER) seminar on youth ... Read More

Findings unveiled of AER energy peer review in Republika Srpska

6 October, 2009 By Editor

Brussels (B), 6 October 2009 The findings of an Assembly of European Regions (AER) energy peer review conducted in the region of Republika Srpska (BiH) were unveiled today at a debriefing in Brussels. Over the past two months, AER experts from the regions of Maramures (RO) and North Hungary have been preparing a report following ... Read More

Thematic dossier n°22 on Regions energising Europe – Autumn 2009

8 October, 2009 By Editor

Regions energising Europe Table of contents: Editorial: Michèle Sabban, AER President Expert hails ‘climate revolution’: AER brings together the Climate Group, GE Energy and the United Nations Development Programme to tackle climate change and prepare the COP15 Partnership in action Interview: Håkan Sandgren, president of AER’s committee 1 on economy and regional development From the bottom up Regions demand more input in ... Read More

Regions are an essential element in the implementation of climate policies

15 October, 2009 By Editor

Paris, Ile-de-France (F), 15 October 2009 After Climate Week in New York, the Governors’ Summit in Los Angeles and less than two months before the Copenhagen conference, the French region of Ile-de-France is joining the mobilisation of regions for the recognition of their and federated states’ role in the fight against climate change in Copenhagen, ... Read More

Local and regional associations join forces against “renationalisation” of cohesion policy

3 November, 2009 By Editor

Seven organisations representing Europe’s local and regional authorities addressed a letter, on 3 November 2009, to all Members of the European Parliament stating their concerns about the draft Communication “Reforming the budget, changing Europe”, prepared recently by the EU Commission. “The draft communication”, say the local and regional associations, “sets out a series of ... Read More