This is the tag for all posts relating to Good practices.

(R)e-inventing Democracy

25 April, 2016 By Johanna Pacevicius

The AER Spring 2016 Bureau (22-24 June, Nordland-NO) will focus on the ways technology helps innovation in democracy, highlighting the disruptive nature of technology and the need to renew existing models. The ... Read More

Interreg North-West Europe: 3rd call now open!

21 April, 2016 By Agnese Pantaloni

The Interreg North-West Europe (NWE) 3rd call for project proposal is now open and looking to receive transnational cooperation initiatives that can deliver concrete results for the North-West Europe area and ... Read More

Erasmus+ Key Action 3: call open on policy reform & social inclusion

15 April, 2016 By Agnese Pantaloni

Following the outcomes of the AER Comittee’s plenaries in Timis (RO) and the high interest of member regions on the issues of social inclusion of migrants and integration of refugees, we ... 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

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

Launch of a trilateral Interreg Cooperation in the Balkans

22 March, 2016 By Editor

The official launch of the trilateral Programme of Crossborder Cooperation between Croatia, Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina marked by the Interreg Conference, has been launched on March the 10th at ... Read More

Interreg Europe, project on food security: looking for partners!

11 March, 2016 By Agnese Pantaloni

The CIHEAM-IAMM in Montpellier (France), one of four Mediterranean agronomic institutes of the International Centre for Advanced Mediterranean Agronomic Studies, is working on a project proposal on “The governance of ... Read More

Engage citizens?

26 February, 2016 By Johanna Pacevicius

Participation requires space as is very well highlighted in this 2010 video from the AER Youth Regional Network. And by space it’s not just physical space that is meant, such ... Read More

Registrations for 2016 Spring plenaries now open!

16 February, 2016 By Johanna Pacevicius

Registrations for the plenary meetings of the AER committees open today. This series of events will feature a joint thematic session on “Communication & actions in times of crisis”. The theme ... Read More

Polish Local Governments attitude towards the refugee crisis

1 February, 2016 By Editor

Adriana Skorupska, expert from AER’s Observatory on Regionalisation, published an analysis on the attitude of Polish Local Governments towards the refugee crisis in the Bulletin of the Polish Institute of ... Read More

Visualizing Energy 2016: getting involved!

28 January, 2016 By Agnese Pantaloni

Revolve Media, a communications agency fostering cultures of sustainability, is launching its annual exhibition on the energy transition, within the EU Sustainable Energy Week (13-17 June 2016). From the capital ... Read More

European Sustainable Energy Week 2016: AER opens its doors

28 January, 2016 By Editor

The AER Brussels office will be open during the whole EU Sustainable Energy Week (EUSEW), from 13-17 June 2016, so if you’re travelling to Brussels don’t hesitate to pop in ... Read More

Migration challenge, first follow up of the AER Bureau discussion

19 January, 2016 By Mathieu Mori

Following the bureau discussion on migration, Secretary General Mathieu Mori met with European Commission’s DG Home Affairs, in charge of migration and integration of migrants and refugees. An action plan for ... Read More

The Regional Innovation Award is back !

18 January, 2016 By Editor

The run up for the 8th Regional Innovation Award has started! The Regional Innovation Award (RIA) is one of AER’s many tools to highlight and share good practices of regions to ... Read More

Report on regionalisation: trends and challenges

4 December, 2015 By Editor

The Observatory on Regionalisation is a network of some 40 experts, from Academy and research centres throughout Europe, passionate about the state of regions in their respective countries, independent from the ... Read More