This tag is for all posts relating to Youth.

Eurodyssey: Promoting youth employment for 30 years

24 June, 2015 By Editor

The Eurodyssey programme is AER’s flagship initiative that has contributed to youth employment over the past 30 years. The programme leads young graduates to their first experience on the international ... Read More

“The future of regionalism is bright”

24 June, 2015 By Editor

“Regions, federated states and autonomous communities are above all mainstays of democracy; they strongly support cultural diversity in Europe and they are major partners in socio-economic development”. This message has been AER’s ... Read More

AER Political Priorities

6 June, 2015 By Editor

Ratified by AER General Assembly 2015 In these troubled times of crisis, when confidence in public institutions is decreasing and there is a tendency for everyone to focus efforts on ... Read More

Making curricula meet labour needs with innovative education

8 May, 2015 By Editor

The Assembly of European Regions together with Brasov County and the University of Transilvania organised between 7th and 8th May 2015 a Conference on “Innovative Education – A real opportunity ... Read More

Youth Guarantee Scheme & the Employment Initiative

26 March, 2015 By Editor

AER organised its first informal Breakfast Briefing in its new Brussels office, at rue d’Arlon 63-67, in order to inform its members about the latest developments on EU level regarding the EU Youth ... Read More

AER at the Heart of EU Decision-Making on Education and Youth Policies

26 March, 2015 By Editor

A delegation from the Assembly of European Regions Committee 3 Presidium visited Brussels on 26 March for a series of meetings in order to raise awareness amongst European policy makers ... Read More

Report on School Dropout

23 March, 2015 By Editor

The Region of Alsace (FR) published the report of the “Euroopean and interregional Conference on school dropout” that took place on 20 January 2015 in Strasbourg. Lilla Mérabet, Vice president of the Regional Council of ... Read More

Event Report: Regional Development Strategies FOR and WITH citizens

9 March, 2015 By Editor

Report from the Committees 2 and 3 plenary meetings in Nordjlland (Dk) in March 2015. The AER Committee 2 “Social Policy and Public Health” and Committee 3 “Culture, Education, Youth and ... Read More

Did you say participatory?

6 March, 2015 By Editor

Aalborg, North Denmark (DK), 6 March 2015 Citizen participation is on all lips, whether to improve social and territorial cohesion, to reduce democratic deficit or to boost growth. But what ... Read More

AER Statement against Terrorism

9 January, 2015 By Mathieu Mori

In reaction to the events in Paris from 7th to 9th January 2015 On behalf of all members of the Assembly of European Regions (AER) and at the initiative of ... Read More

YRN Elections: Meet the new Presidium

1 December, 2014 By Editor

Istanbul, Istanbul (TR), 1st December 2014 The young regional representatives of the AER Youth Regional Network (YRN) nominated their new Presidium: Mario Žulicek, from Varazdin (HR), has been elected YRN President ... Read More

Implementing Lifelong Learning in the territories: a new dynamics

11 November, 2014 By Editor

On 11 November in Istanbul (TR), AER President Dr Hande Özsan Bozatli opened the 12th European University of the Foundation of European Regions for Research in Education and Training (FREREF) together with the FREREF ... Read More

Committees 1 & 3 joining forces

7 November, 2014 By Johanna Pacevicius

Following last year’s positive experience, AER Committees ‘Economy and Regional development’ (1) and ‘Culture, Education Youth and International Cooperation’ (3) joined forces again from 5-7 November to discuss in Arnhem ... Read More

We need more youth mobility to tackle unemployment

23 October, 2014 By Editor

The Eurodyssey annual Forum gathered the programme’s managers and coordinators, together with interested regions, on 23 -24 October in Valencia (ES). The upcoming years will be particularly important for regional ... Read More

Pick an important problem and fix it!

23 October, 2014 By Johanna Pacevicius

Independent living is not an easy topic, especially with shrinking budgets and growing needs. E-health is obviously part of the solution but as Marta Tatar, County Councillor of Covasna (RO) mentioned ... Read More