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AER Youth Regional Network

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Created by the Assembly of European Regions (AER), the Youth Regional Network (YRN) is a platform of regional-level youth organisations, councils and parliaments from across wider Europe. The platform works as a forum where young people can influence regional and European policy while exchanging experiences and good practice. At the Plenary Meeting in Istanbul (TR) on 27–30 November 2014, YRN members elected their presidium, which is composed as follows:

Contents

  • YRN President, Mario ZULICEK, Varazdin (HR)
  • First Vice-President, Aleks SEMERCIYAN, Vienna (A)
  • Vice-President, Svetlana LANETS, Kaliningrad (RUS)
  • Treasurer, Emmanuel FELIX, Bern (CH)
  • Head of Committee on Professional Life and Youth Entrepreneurship, Svetlana LANETS, Kaliningrad (RUS)
  • Head of Committee on Culture and Education, Dorotea MARTINEC, Zagreb (HR)
  • Head of Committee on Health and Social Affairs, Laetitia REDONET, Limousin (FR)
  • Head of Committee on Educational Training and Networking, Lara KVESIC, Zagreb (HR)

    • Background

    AER’s Youth Regional Network was established on 25 November 2008 in Wiesbaden (Hessen region, Germany), where a founding meeting of ninety young people representing 55 European regions launched Europe’s first platform of regional youth councils, parliaments and organisations. They adopted the Wiesbaden Resolution, in order to define their main priorities and goals.

    The YRN was founded on the idea that decision-making should be based upon the principle of subsidiarity. This means that, on the one hand, youth policy at European level should reflect the diversity of the regions and of the young people that live in those regions. On the other hand, youth policy within the regions should maintain a European dimension so that the common challenges faced by all young people can be tackled in co-operation with the sharing of ideas, knowledge and experiences.

    2010 In order to ensure that YRN functions as a genuine platform linking regional youth Councils/parliaments/NGOs with AER and its activities, the AER General Assembly agrees to adopt the Declaration on Enhanced Cooperation with YRN, which marks the recognition of its role and committiment within AER, among AER member regions & at the European level.

    2013 YRN adopted its statutes, rule of procedures and strategic priorities. From May 2013, YRN got a seat in the AER Executive Board.

    Mission

    The mission of the YRN is to provide young people the opportunity to exchange views with other young people in order to get them more involved at the European and regional democratic processes.

    Objectives

    There YRN has four main objectives: networking, influencing policy, exchanging best practice and experience and promoting sustainable governance.

    Events

    2013

  • YRN Fall Plenary meeting, 14-17 November 2013, Sfantu Gheorghe (RO): This meeting focused on the "Role of Education in Inclusive Society"
  • YRN Spring Plenary meeting, 6 May 2013, Brussels (B)
  • AER Conference on the Crisis and the Regions: "Youth as a source and a lever of regional growth in times of crisis", 8 March 2013, Warsaw (PL)

    • 2012

  • YRN Fall Plenary Meeting, 8–9 October 2012, Strasbourg (F): "Youth Democracy: Engagement & Influence in European Policy"
  • YRN Spring Plenary Meeting, 7–9 May 2012, Vienna (A): "Equal Rights for all"

    • 2011

  • AER Youth Regional Network Fall Plenary & Seminar on Eastern Partnership, 27–28 October 2013, Wroclaw (PL)
  • AER Youth Regional Network Spring Plenary Meeting & Conference on Youth Mobility, 21 April 2011, Orléans (F)
  • YRN Presidium Meeting, 21–22 February 2011, Strasbourg (F)

    • 2010

  • YRN Spring Plenary meeting, 7–9 June 2010, Donja Stubica (HR): "Empowering youth through subisdiarity"

    • 2009

  • YRN's Take on Youth Employment & Autumn Plenary, 10–12 December 2009 in Paris (F)
  • "On the eve of the European elections" and Spring Plenary, 20–22 May 2009 in Krzyzowa (Dolny Slask, PL)

    • 2008

  • First Meeting of the AER Youth Regional Network on 23–25 November 2008 in Wiesbaden (Hessen, D): "The future belongs to us - but how should we handle it?"

    • References

    AER Youth Regional Network Wikipedia
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