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The "featured member" sections aims at showing the people behind the network. AER is made up of many active and involved politicians and civil servants and we are pleased to bring visibility to their ideas and initiatives. If you would like to promote your region via one of our many tools available, do not hesitate to contact us, we are eager to get to know our members better.

Jan Owe-Larsson, Chairman of AER working group on Transports & Mobility

6 June, 2016 By Editor

Jan Owe-Larsson is the Chairman AERs working group on Transports & Mobility and the second vice-chair of Region Östergötland’s Transport and Urban Planning Committee. The AER working group aims for ... 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

Meet Ana Tomanova Makanova, AER Vice-President for Equal Opportunities and Inclusion

25 January, 2016 By Editor

After four year smartly spent at raising awareness on the topics of equal opportunities, Monica Carlsson (Norrbotten-SE) passed on the baton to Ana Tomanova Makanova (Vojvodina-SR) who was unanimously elected by the ... Read More

Welcome to Bodø (Nordland-NO)

4 January, 2016 By Editor

AER Committee 3 President and Mayor of Nordland, Ms Sonja Steen, welcomes AER members and stakeholders to Bodø (Nordland-NO) for the 2016 AER General Assembly (GA) form 22-24 June. It will ... Read More

Newest member of the Monitoring and Evaluation Group

14 December, 2015 By Editor

Mr Goran Pauk, from Šibenik-Knin (HR), was elected as member of the Monitoring and Evaluation Group on 1 December 2015. It is a great honour for me to be elected ... Read More

COP21: Regions need to be included in climate talks

29 November, 2015 By Editor

Eva Hallström, Värmland (SE), AER member and rapporteur at the COP21 “It is a great privilege for me to attend one of the world’s most anticipated and topical events of ... Read More

Nordland (NO): Modern art finds home in dematerialised museum

6 November, 2015 By Mathieu Mori

During the AER commitee 3 plenary meeting, the region of Nordland (NO) presented their award winning modern art project « Skulpturlandskap », introducing modern art across the whole of the ... 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

Presenting the County of Karlovac (HR)

23 March, 2015 By Editor

Karlovac County is located in central Croatia. It is the traffic link between continental and coastal Croatia and also the hub of modern highway connecting Central Europe to the Adriatic ... Read More

European Capital of Culture 2015: Welcome to Mons (Wallonia-BE)

12 December, 2014 By Editor

Since 2002, Mons has been the cultural capital of Wallonia (BE). A city with a stunning amount of historical and cultural heritage, Mons will write a new chapter of its history ... Read More