In celebration of its 25th anniversary, the European Committee of the Regions invites you to showcase your photographic skills and to "capture" Europe in your regions by participating in the "Capturing [Y]our Europe" photography competition, organized by the trainees of the Committee with the support of its Members. 

As part of the 17th European Week of Regions and Cities, the Master Class on EU Cohesion Policy, targeting PhD students and early-career researchers, will be held for the seventh time.  

A joint workshop organised by the Romanian Presidency of the Council of the European union and the European Committee of the Regions 

The employees of the Provincial Desk Gelderland kindly invite you to our International European Entrepreneurial Region Conference. On the 22nd and the 23rd of May, during the two day conference Empowering Sustainability - Gelderland Topclimate for entrepreneurs you will meet other European partners, innovative start-up and scale-up hubs and clusters from various European regions. Together we will set to work to accelerate innovation in sustainability. The conference is the time to be inspired as well as a next step to European cooperation with other entrepreneurs, authorities and education institutes. 

High-level conference and stakeholders consultation on EU Biodiversity Strategy to 2020. The European Commission, in cooperation with the European Committee of the Regions, is organising an EU “Conference on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services: a Common Agenda to 2020 and Beyond”, with the objective to look back at what has been achieved by the EU, to draw on lessons learned, and to reflect on the main challenges for the future. The conference provides the starting point for the public consultation of the final evaluation of the EU Biodiversity Strategy to 2020.  

The objective of the event will be to present the results, deployment and findings of the APPCARE project in order to contribute to the promotion of active and healthy aging.  

The European Committee of the Regions (CoR) is currently preparing an own-initiative opinion on "Improving administrative capacity of local and regional authorities to strengthen investments and structural reforms in 2021-2027". The CoR's ECON Commission has appointed as rapporteur for this opinion Ms Manuela BORA (PES/IT). In the context of the ongoing negotiations on the future MFF and related spending Programmes, the CoR will make the point that there is a strong and urgent need to make access of LRAs to capacity-building measures easier than in 2014-2020.  

Cohesion policy is the main European investment policy to achieve the EU Treaty objective of economic, social and territorial cohesion. In that sense, better communicating Cohesion policy projects is very important as it can also affect citizens' perceptions of the EU and raise awareness on the positive impact the EU has on the everyday lives of people. Communicating on cohesion policy is also a shared responsibility. Based on the respect of the partnership and multilevel governance principle, local and regional authorities should play a fundamental role in implementing cohesion policy and in ensuring the visibility of the projects funded by this policy. The European institutions alone cannot be the driving force behind this challenge.  

The objective of the event is to showcase a diversity of initiatives set up jointly by social economy organisations and cities/regions. 

The 24th NAT commission meeting will be held on 17 June 2019 in Brussels. 

The Enlargement Day is the European Committee of the Regions' annual flagship event on EU enlargement policy.  

The members of the European Committee of the Regions will meet in the 135th plenary session on 26 and 27 June 2019. 

On the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the two institutions, come and witness the synergies between the work of the European Committee of the Regions and the Congress of the Council of Europe to further strengthen local self-government and regional democracy. 

23rd enlarged meeting of the Bureau of ARLEM 

​The 24th ECON Commission Meeting will take place on 9 July from 11:00 to 18:30 in the European Committee of the Regions in Brussels, room JDE 62.  

The 24th COTER Commission meeting will take place on 10 July 2019 from 11:00 to 18:30 at the European Committee of the Regions, Rue Belliard 99-101, Brussels room JDE 62. 

The 24th SEDEC Commission meeting will take place on 11 July 2018 from 11:00 to 18:30 in the European Committee of the Regions in Brussels, room JDE 62. 

The European Committee of the Regions (CoR), the iInternational Association of Public Transport (UITP) and the European Rail Supply Industry Association (UNIFE)​ are organising a conference on "Urban rail investments in the next MFF". The event will be held on 11 September 2019, 9:30 – 12:30, in the CoR (Rue Belliard 99, 1040 Brussels, 5th floor, meeting room JDE 51). 

15th meeting of the Technical Platform for Cooperation on the Environment 

The 25th SEDEC Commission meeting will take place on 30 September 2018 from 11:00 to 18:30 in the European Committee of the Regions in Brussels, room JDE 52.