The CoR in cooperation with the CPMR and the AER have launched the photography contest "Integration through your lens".  

• The first session, will take a look at how the 2019 European Semester worked on the ground and will address the limits of a top-down approach to the Semester, also in the light of its broadening remits, now including giving guidance to ESI Funds and managing the Eurozone's forthcoming Budgetary Instrument for Convergence and Competitiveness. • The second session will discuss on how to refocus the Semester to integrate the Sustainable Development Goals as the long-term orientation for annual investment and reform priorities. It will also look at how could EU cities and regions be involved as partners in the Semester process. • Speakers will include Commission's European Semester Officers active in some EU capitals, EU officials and representatives of associations of cities and regions and think tanks.  

How to promote youth participation in the EU? Good practices and new developments event on 12 December 2019 

The 26th ECON Commission Meeting will take place on 13 December 2019 from 11:00 to 18:30 in the European Committee of the Regions in Brussels, room JDE 52.​ 

The 26th COTER Commission meeting will take place on 16 December 2019 from 11:00 to 14:00 at the European Committee of the Regions, Rue Belliard 99-101, Brussels, room JDE 52. 

The 2021 edition of the European Entrepreneurial Region (EER)​ award has been launched on 26 November 2019 at the European SME Assembly in Helsinki (see the press release). The deadline for the submission of applications is 31 March 2020. 

11th plenary session of ARLEM 

ARLEM Award 2020 

The European Committee of the Regions (CoR) and the International Association of Public Transport (UITP) are organising a Conference on ‘How to get people out of their cars’. The objective of the conference is to discuss solutions that can get citizens out of their cars to achieve a modal shift.