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This tag is for all posts relating to Project Smart Europe.

Welcome to our projects section. AER was involved in the "Smart Europe" project. The articles below are related to employment and innovation-based sectors.

Flevoland (NL) champion in EU projects with AER

14 October, 2015 By Mathieu Mori

Following on the AER Open Doors week, the King’s Commissioner, Leen Verbeek and the Executive Board of the Province of Flevoland (NL) came to discuss the next steps of their ... Read More

The potential of young SMEs for economic growth

28 December, 2014 By Editor

Discover the Smart Europe project’s 6th newsletter Follow AER! Read More

Smart Europe project: final video

28 November, 2014 By Editor

SMART EUROPE was a project based on the concept that smart and targeted regional policies and interventions can be designed to boost the employment directly in the regional innovation-based sectors. ... Read More

Be smart and be innovative to create sustainable jobs!

4 November, 2014 By Editor

On 4 November, the partners of the SMART EUROPE and GreenInfranet projects – INTERREG IVC – met for a joint final conference gathering over 160 participants, where regional stakeholders were ... Read More

Be smart, be innovative, and you will create sustainable jobs!

3 November, 2014 By Editor

Almere, Flevoland (NL), 4 November 2014 Today, the partners of the SMART EUROPE and GreenInfranet projects – INTERREG IVC – met for a joint final conference gathering over 160 participants, where ... Read More

For a Smarter Europe

17 April, 2014 By Editor

From 19 to 21 April, the SMART EUROPE INTERREG IVC project partners gathered in Manchester (UK) in order to exchange and discuss on how to build dynamic business environments and ... Read More

Less is more!

27 May, 2013 By Editor

“We won’t show you our successes or good practices, we want you to see the bare reality and identify the failures we don’t see” is what the 10 peers from ... Read More

Regions leading innovation through smart jobs

16 April, 2013 By Mathieu Mori

During the Conference “Innovative Actions, Smart Jobs”, hosted by Avila County Council on 16 April 2013 in the framework of INTERREG IVC project Smart Europe, AER member regions discussed alongside ... Read More

Peer reviews on creating innovative companies

1 March, 2013 By Mathieu Mori

Smart Europe Regional Peer Review in Veneto: intense, challenging, productive! Boosting the creation of innovative companies In the context of the Smart Europe INTERREG IVC project, 10 experts from AER, ... Read More

AER boosts interregional cooperation on employment and innovation

24 January, 2013 By Mathieu Mori

Unemployment, having become a major challenge affecting regions all across Europe, it is now ever the more important to implement smarter, targeted regional policies aiming to support job creation within ... Read More

Innovative jobs and Green growth AER partners with two new INTERREG IVC projects

16 February, 2012 By Mathieu Mori

Strasbourg (F), 16 February 2012 The Assembly of European Regions is pleased to announce the kick-off of two new INTERREG IVC projects recently approved by the European Union. In cooperation ... Read More

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EU-Belong Final Conference in Strasbourg: A Regional Approach for an Intercultural Europe

On 25 and 26 March 2025, the Assembly of European Regions (AER) hosted the third and final EU-Belong Knowledge Sharing Event in Strasbourg, Grand Est … [Read More...]

Democracy at the heart of Europe’s sustainable transition | Insights from the MAIA & I-CHANGE Policy Roundtable

On 20 March 2025, the AER as MAIA ambassador was invited to the policy roundtable on behavioural change and civil society knowledge in the European … [Read More...]

Human Trafficking and Labour Exploitation | Insights from the EU-Belong Webinar

On 7 March 2025, the Assembly of European Regions (AER) and the Government of Catalonia hosted a highly insightful webinar addressing human … [Read More...]

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