This is the tag for all posts relating to Innovation.

Let’s be the frontrunner for eHealth services in Europe!

1 February, 2016 By Johanna Pacevicius

United4Health’s final conference took place on 19th and 20th January 2016 in Brussels. The two days offered plenty of opportunity for higher-level and policy messages. Yet, they were also full ... Read More

Bad Ischl – Upper Austria invites you to the 15th World Conference of Historical Cities

29 January, 2016 By Editor

Austria, 5-10 June 2016 Our member region Vienna (AT) will host the kick-off meeting of the important 15th World Conference of Historical Cities and invites the AER member regions to join the conference which ... 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

The circular economy: opportunity or threat?

27 January, 2016 By Editor

The circular economy is becoming a central topic in policy and business circles. It is presented as the sustainable alternative to the traditional linear model of economic growth, which has ... Read More

Dutch EU Presidency focuses on four of AER’s main policies

25 January, 2016 By Editor

An agenda in line with AER’s The Netherlands Presidency of the European Union (from January to June 2016) aims to promote prosperity, freedom and security in the EU during the ... 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

Promoting urban and regional development

11 December, 2015 By Johanna Pacevicius

Nordland County Council is working on a strategy on urban and regional development. The strategy will constitute a conceptual and integrated basis for the organisation of effective urban policies in ... Read More

EIP-AHA: it’s possible to join!

11 December, 2015 By Johanna Pacevicius

A new call for reference sites is being prepared by the European Commission together with the current reference sites. This was announced at the Conference of Partners of the European ... Read More

Looking for partners for Horizon2020 project on Smart Specialisation

9 December, 2015 By Editor

PBL (Dutch Environmental Assessment Agency) is a part of the Ministry of Infrastructure and Environment in the Netherlands and has been working in the past couple of years with other partners ... Read More

The regional perspective at French Senate event

2 December, 2015 By Mathieu Mori

On Wednesday 2 December, AER President Dr Hande Özsan Bozatli took part in a forum on the future of the welfare state in Europe organized at the invitation of the ... Read More

Call for a white paper on rurality

24 November, 2015 By Editor

Together with the European Countryside Movement (ECM) and their other partners, the Assembly of European Regions calls for the production of a White Paper on rurality by the European Commission ... Read More

EU funding for innovation procurements

23 November, 2015 By Editor

Innovation procurement can drive the R&D and deployment of innovative solutions from the demand side through respectively pre-commercial procurement (PCP) and public procurement of innovative solutions (PPI). This can speed ... Read More

E-health innovation for chronic diseases

12 November, 2015 By Editor

The Province of Gederland (NL) is calling for AER members to join the development of an interregional project on e-health innovations. The objective is to develop innovative products for chronic ... Read More

Future without Fiber?

6 November, 2015 By Editor

Hampshire, 3 November 2015, Conference on Public Sector Innovation Before it was roads, then electricity and now it is fiber and broadband connectivity – goes the common saying. Digitalisation of ... Read More

Who is the mother of invention?

3 November, 2015 By Johanna Pacevicius

Society has changed, what about the public sector ? Why does the public sector need innovation ? How to reinvent not only the services delivered but also the way they ... Read More