The aim of the AER Breakfast Briefings is to inform our members in a short and pragmatic way about relevant and topical EU policies and/or funding opportunities. To achieve this, the AER Brussels office invites specialists from the European institutions, particularly from the Commission and the Parliament, to give presentations on a wide field of interests for the regions. The meetings also serve as a platform for information exchange, thus allowing the participants to ask questions to the speaker and to go into more detail about their specific fields of interest in order to be able to report back to their regions efficiently and in a well-informed manner. The Brussels office would also like to use this meeting in order to gain a greater insight into the needs and interests of the regions in order to meet their needs more efficiently.
The main target groups of these Breakfast Briefings are officers from AER member regions' Brussels offices. However, any other representative of a member region who is coming to Brussels can attend.
The meetings take place from 09.00 - 11.00 in either the AER Brussels office or in the office of one of our member regions. The presentations will take approximately 30 45 minutes. Afterwards there will be the opportunity for the participants to ask questions.
If you would like to host a breakfast briefing, propose a topic for discussion or suggest a potential speaker, please contact the AER Secretariat in Brussels. We thank you in advance for your collaboration!
The next AER Breakfast Briefing will be held on 10th of July 2008 and it will be about the "Youth in Action"-Programme. Our speaker will be Mr Pascal Lejeune, EC, Head of unit D2, Youth in Action Programme.



Speaker: Mr. Peter Mehlbye, Director of the ESPON Coordination Unit
Date: June 24, 2008 at 9.00
Venue: Delegation of Poitou-Charentes, Rond Point Schuman 14, B-1040
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Speaker: Bernd WILD, Europan Commission, DG Enlargment & Helen Lund, Danish politician and COR member
Date: May 14, 2008 at 9.00
Venue: Representation of Sarajevo, rue du Commerce 49
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Speaker: Marnix Surgeon, European Commission, DG Research
Date: April 8, 2008 at 9.30
Venue: AER Brussels Office - Espace international Wallonie-Bruxelles II (EIWB II), Bd. Baudouin 12, 1000 Bruxelles (Metro Station : Yser)
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Speaker: Gisela Kallenbach (MEP)
Date: March 4, 2008 at 9.00
Venue: The Representation of Aquitaine, Hessen and Wielkopolska, Avenue de l'Yser, 19 (closest Metro Station : Merode)
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Further information on this event available here.