Is your region or are organisations in your region looking to upscale exchanges and mobility schemes to foster upskilling, employability prospects and internationalisation? The Public Service of Employment of Catalonia (SOC) is looking to establish reciprocity-based, long-term cooperation schemes, as well as explore other cooperation agreements, with the aim to send and … [Read more...]
Skills for the Bioeconomy @AER Summer Academy in Donegal
The ambition of the AER Working Group on the Bioeconomy is to create a community amongst European regions to share challenges, and opportunities, and create the ground for future partnerships and projects. Youth at the heart of the shift to green gold On the occasion of the AER Summer Academy in Ireland, the AER working group on the Bioeconomy facilitated a workshop with … [Read more...]
Interview with Aud Hove, Chair of the AER Working Group on the Bioeconomy
How exchanging experiences with other regions leverages knowledge and the ability to create impact: the Chair of the newly created working group on the bioeconomy & skills, Aud Hove, Innlandet (NO), shares about her motivation for setting up a working group within the AER network. Can you please introduce yourself? My name is Aud Hove, I serve as the deputy county … [Read more...]
Making TVET more attractive for Women!
Technical vocational education and training provide concrete opportunities for inclusion by developing innovative curricula matching rapidly changing societal needs and fostering life-long learning opportunities. Yet, the sector has been for long time predominately male centred making the need to counter the gender-bias and gender-stereotypes in the sector a foremost priority … [Read more...]
Proposal for a Working Group on Bioeconomy adopted
The Executive Board which took place on 23 March 2022 adopted the proposal for the creation of an AER working group on the Bioeconomy. The proposal is led by Innlandet (NO) and is supported by Lower Austria (AU), Gelderland (NL), Värmland (SE). Skills & knowledge at the heart of the development of the Bioeconomy It is estimated that the bioeconomy contributes to … [Read more...]
Social Inclusion in TVET and Skills Development
Education and training play a crucial role in fostering social inclusion providing concrete opportunities for skills development that lead to individuals’ self-affirmation and the creation of diversified learning environments. Yet, rapid and increasing societal changes – as demographic trends, globalisation, and climate change – are bringing about an in-depth transformation of … [Read more...]
Technical Vocational Education & Training and Civic Participation
Civic participation is a process in which people take collective action to address issues of public concern and can adopt many forms: from individual volunteering, community engagement efforts and organisational involvement to governmental support. With regard to governments, effectively engaging with stakeholders translates into better services, source ideas and knowledge, … [Read more...]
Improving the attractiveness of Technical and Vocational Education & Training for women
We are pleased to invite you to the webinar on Improving the attractiveness of Technical and Vocational Education and Training for women. The Technical and Vocational Education and Training sector has a major role to play in providing the skills Europe will need in the future. Moreover, countries with well-designed vocational training programmes find it easier to avoid youth … [Read more...]
Public consultation on Education for Environmental Sustainability
The European Commission has opened up an open public consultation to feed into a proposal for a Council Recommendation on Education for Environmental Sustainability later this year. The Recommendation will deal with all types and levels of education, including vocational education and training (VET) and Adult Learning (AL). Education to support the goals of the Green … [Read more...]
Social Inclusion in TVET and Skill Development – Leaving No-one Behind
TVET policies and programmes are of core importance to ensure that all people can enjoy inclusive skill development leading to both individuals’ affirmation and the creation of diversified learning environments. As reported by Srinvas Reddy, Chief of the ILO Skills and Employability Branch, “inclusive skills development and lifelong learning opportunities are vital to prevent … [Read more...]
Skills for Effective Innovation Ecosystems
Article by Sandra Evans, Project Coordinator at Universität Tübingen. It is not a secret anymore that open innovation ecosystems provide optimal conditions for creating new value. But what makes innovation ecosystems effective, or how are effective innovation ecosystems created? This important question was the topic of a panel discussion organised by the Assembly of European … [Read more...]
REGISTRATION OPEN: Social Inclusion in TVET and Skill Development – Leaving No-one Behind
TVET policies and programmes are of core importance to ensure that all people can enjoy inclusive skill development leading to both individuals’ affirmation and the creation of diversified learning environments. As reported by Srinvas Reddy, Chief of the ILO Skills and Employability Branch, “inclusive skills development and lifelong learning opportunities are vital to … [Read more...]
Why Innovative Skills are the Catalyst for Rural Areas
On 25 March, the Assembly of European Regions hosted the "Ambitious Skills and Innovation Strategies: A Territorial Approach" webinar. The event was part of the series of webinars on EU funding opportunities organised within the Skillnet project (co-founded by the Erasmus+ Programme) to bring together experts in Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET) and to … [Read more...]
REGISTRATIONS OPEN: Improving the attractiveness of TVET for women
In the context of its activities around skills and the future of work, AER has been organising a series of webinar together with partners of the Skillnet project since Spring 2020. We are very pleased to invite you to join a webinar on improving the attractiveness of TVET for women. Important: The event has been postponed and will be held on 13 July 2021 at 10:00 CET. The … [Read more...]
Multi-stakeholder Approaches for Innovative Societies
We are pleased to invite you to two webinars examining the ways in which multi-stakeholder approaches help build more innovative societies. To build innovative and creative societies, it is necessary to work both at a system level to improve innovation ecosystems and at an individual level to encourage young people from diverse backgrounds to participate in society. The … [Read more...]