This tag is for all posts relating to Youth.

Interested in prevention and early intervention of behavioural problems in schools?

16 January, 2017 By Editor

Education is arguably essential to the development and improvement of the lives of young people. Indeed, a myriad of factors can affect the pupil’s progress in school along with that of other pupils in the same environment, especially when related to behavioural problems. Toppunt vzw is an association of pupil guidance centres in Ghent (Interstedelijk ... Read More

Impact investments: sustainable returns to society

16 January, 2017 By Editor

With the economic and financial crisis of the recent years, governments had to commit themselves to balance their budget and reduce public debt and deficit. These constraints have put limits to national expenditures, meaning that many social issues have been left aside because of a lack of funds. However, youth education, social inclusion, healthcare, climate change all ... Read More

Women entrepreneurship and citizenship in Guadeloupe

23 January, 2017 By Editor

As women entrepreneurship is an important issue in which the Assembly of European Regions is involved, we featured the Youth Women Win project in one of our success stories from a member region – Guadeloupe (FR). The project, which is spearheaded by Arrimage Good’iles in collaboration with C for C NGO and Groupe One, is ... Read More

Youngest AER Youth Regional Network member meets “Napalm Girl”

1 February, 2017 By Editor

Last December, Ms Göksu Zeybek, AER’s youngest Youth Regional Network member met with Kim Phùc, also known as the “Napalm Girl” while she was in Istanbul. Ms. Phùc, now 53 and a UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador, shared some of her great life lessons on forgiveness and courage to make a difference in a war-torn world. Ms Zeybek concluded ... Read More

2017 Elections: call for nominations for the General Assembly and Committees

1 February, 2017 By Editor

Per AER Statute and Procedures, elections for the Executive Board and the Election Committee and ratification of the members of the Bureau will occur at the General Assembly in St. Pölten (AT) on 31 May-2 June 2017. Elections for Committee Presidents will occur at the Committee’s Plenary meeting in London (UK) on 21-23 March 2017. ... Read More

Call for Partners: project for children with autistic spectrum disorders

24 February, 2017 By Editor

The Regional Ministry of Education of the Region of Murcia (Spain) is searching for public or private institutions for an ERASMUS+ KA2 project they are drafting. To this extent, the Ministry is working in close cooperation with Murcia Regional Association of Professional Art-Therapists (MURARTT) in order to develop the following topic: ‘Art therapy and Inclusive Art for the Emotional and ... Read More

Not your usual plenary meetings

2 March, 2017 By Johanna Pacevicius

The AER Committees are the R&D lab of AER where experiences are shared, discussed, transferred to other regions, transformed, brought back in the network and adopted by yet other regions. However, the plenary meetings don’t always do justice to the wealth of ideas and initiatives regions are implementing or want to implement. Just do it! ... Read More

Develop a project on cultural heritage

2 March, 2017 By Johanna Pacevicius

The workshop on cultural heritage organised at the AER Spring plenary meetings in London will provide participants with information on funding opportunities and support the definition of one or more project ideas. European Year of Cultural Heritage On 9 February 2017 Council and European Parliament representatives reached a provisional agreement on a decision establishing 2018 ... Read More

We’re hiring the perfect promoter of regionalisation ! (now closed)

2 March, 2017 By Editor

Interested in advocating for the interests of the regions of Europe? We are looking for a colleague to help us advertise the regional dimension in Europe, create magic links with the European institutions and fight for regional policy. We offer a Belgian full-time employment contract (initially 6 months contract, with possibility of converting it to a permanent ... Read More

Combatting school dropout: the Handbook is out!

9 March, 2017 By Editor

The Handbook with regional good practices to combat school dropouts compiled by Västernorrland has just been published. It brings together examples from 11 regions to help young people evolve on a success path, whatever their own challenges may be. A long-standing engagement Back in September 2012 Västernorrland organised a conference on combatting early school leaving, ... Read More

Youth: inclusion & social skills

10 March, 2017 By Editor

On March 23rd in London, UK, at the AER Spring plenary session, the workshop “Youth: Inclusion& social skills” will provide delegates with an opportunity to share experiences in the implementation of youth policies. They will identify implementation challenges as well as the success factors for regions. Difficulty for young people to relate to others Following the workshop ... Read More

Looking for partners: project for early childhood education and care

10 March, 2017 By Editor

Kind en Gezin (Child and Family) is looking for partner to join their project proposal on “SCHOOL EDUCATION: Supporting efforts to increase access to affordable and high quality early childhood education and care (ECEC)” which will be submitted in the framework of Erasmus+ programme. This project aims at increasing the accessibility of integrated ECEC-services to support ... Read More

YRN General Assembly & Spring Plenary

13 March, 2017 By Editor

The region of Vojvodina (Serbia) hosted the delegates from the AER Youth Regional Network for the YRN General Assembly and Spring Plenary meeting. All delegates then celebrated 60 years of Europe on the 9 May in Novi Sad, together with the Delegation of the European Union in Serbia. Documents Agenda Minutes from the Extraordinary General Assembly Minutes ... Read More

URGENT Partners wanted for Erasmus+ KA2 project on Strategic Partnerships

16 March, 2017 By Editor

ARTos Foundation (Cyprus), a contemporary arts and science centre, is looking for partners to join a project they are drafting within the Erasmus+ programme, Key Action 2: Strategic Partnerships – School Education. This project titled “hisTOrY: An innovative toy-based educational tool for History” aims to introduce an innovative educational tool for history, based on toys and their evolution through the last ... Read More

Committees elect new members in their Presidium

25 March, 2017 By Editor

At their Spring Committee meetings in London, AER members elected new members for their Committee Presidium. Congratulations to the new representatives! Committee 1 for Economy and Regional Development President Jean-Luc Vanraes Brussels-Capital (BE) (will be confirmed at the General Assembly) Representative for Equal Opportunities Sıla İlgi Akkaş Izmir (TR) Committee 2 for Social Policy and ... Read More