The 20th SEDEC Commission meeting will take place on 26 September 2018 from 11:00 to 18:30 in the European Committee of the Regions in Brussels, room JDE 52. 

T​he ECON commission will hold its 20th meeting in Brussels on 23 October 2018 from 11:00 to 18:30.  

The 20th meeting of the COTER commission will be held not on 25 September but on 24-25 October 2018 in Brussels.  

The European Urban and Regional Planning Awards, provide a common framework for planning practice and rewards examples of good planning all over Europe. For the first time, the ECTP-CEU has proposed a strategic theme oriented specifically on the articulation and integration between cities and airports, considering the increasing importance for the territories and focusing on the issues in strategic planning, sustainable mobility and energy efficiency. Aviation and urban planning have developed in parallel over the last century and play together a major role in the future of human society. This XIIth European Urban and Regional Planning Awards 2018 organized -for the fourth consecutive time- with support from the Committee of the Regions of the European Union, is for this edition sponsored by Groupe ADP and supported by Fundation Metropoli. The winners were celebrated in Paris, May 18th 018; and will briefly be presented to the COTER members at the Committee of the Regions on 24th of October. With: • Mr Petr Osvald, COTER President • Mrs Dominique Lancrenon, member of the Awards Jury, honorary ECTP-CEU President • Mr Kieran McCarthy, Member of the EU Committee of the Regions, member of the Awards Jury • Mr Joris Scheers, ECTP-CEU Secretary General, honorary ECTP-CEU President  

The 9th edition of EuroPCom is preliminarily set for Thursday 8 and Friday 9 November 2018. More than 900 communication professionals are expected to attend the event. Join your colleagues from all EU Member States and beyond in sharing views on how to engage citizens with and for Europe and in public affairs in general at this largest event on public communication in Europe 

 

Launch of the EER 2020 competition during the 2018 SME Assembly in Graz, Austria 

As a response to the call from our citizens to enhance the social dimension of the Union, on 17 November 2017 during the Social Summit in Gothenburg Sweden, the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission jointly proclaimed the European Pillar of Social Rights [add hyperlink to the Pillar: COM(2017)251]. One year after the adoption of the proclamation, the CoR wishes to give new impetus to its implementation. While the EU has an important role to play, most of the competences and tools required to deliver on the European Pillar are in the hands of local, regional and national authorities. In its relevant opinion [add hyperlink to the D'Attis opinion COR-2017-03141], the European Committee of the Regions (CoR) therefore highlights the need to fully involve local and regional authorities in the implementation of the European Pillar. This inter-institutional conference will assess the progress achieved towards making the aims of the Pillar a reality, and will discuss the way ahead focusing on the role of regions and the cities. 

The 21st SEDEC Commission meeting will take place on 27 November 2018 from 11:00 to 18:30 in the European Committee of the Regions in Brussels, room JDE 52. 

On 20 March 2018, CoR President Karl-Heinz Lambertz met with UEFA First-Vice President and President of the UEFA HatTrick Committee Karl-Erik Nilsson to discuss the EU cohesion policy and the role that football and small-scale sport infrastructures could potentially play in the next EU programming period (2021 onwards). On this occasion, UEFA signed-up to the #CohesionAlliance initiative. 

​The 21st NAT commission meeting will be held on 28 November 2018 in Brussels. 

plenary session 

The 21st ECON Commission Meeting will take place on 13 December 2018 from 11:00 to 18:30 in the European Committee of the Regions in Brussels, room JDE 52. 

The 21st meeting of the COTER commission will be held on 14 December 2018 in Brussels.