AER is committed to empowering its members to guarantee equal opportunities for each and every one of their citizens.
Within the AER structure, we promote gender parity in the various AER organs – this principle is promoted within the AER statutes and rules of procedure.
Across AER, we encourage regions to acknowledge and implement the equal opportunities perspective in all policy areas and we have worked on:
- women entrepreneurship & women’s employment opportunities
- equal rights for people with disabilities – click here for more on AER’s work in this area
- equal opportunities for young people – click here for more on AER’s Youth-related work
You will find information on past events and declarations on the menu on the right.
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The AER Standing Committee on Equal Opportunities was created in 2009 with the mandate of liaising with all the AER organs and mainstreaming all equal opportunity issues across AER.
Its membership consists of regional politicians and officers who are active in the field of equal opportunities.
The Standing Committee liaises with the other AER organs to ensure that equal opportunity issues are considered in all aspects of AER’s work.
For more information on the SCEO structure, please click here.
Monica Carlsson, County Commission of Norrbotten County Council (S), is the President of the AER Standing Committee on Equal Opportunities and has a long experience in gender equality issues.
The AER Standing Committee on Equal Opportunities was created by a decision of the AER General Assembly on 26 November 2009, in recognition of the importance of equal opportunities within AER’s work and the need to ensure that these issues are mainstreamed across the entire organisation.
Gender Equality has been a key priority within AER for many years – a working group on Gender Equality was created in the late 1990s. The Standing Committee on Equal Opportunities was preceded by the AER Observatory on Gender Issues, that operated within the framework of the AER Social Policy and Public Health Committee (Committee 2).
The mandate of the Standing Committee has been extended to cover all kinds of inequality, whether they are based on gender, ethnic or other origin, age, disability, age, sexual orientation, religion or any other reason people can find to create categories among human beings. Gender Equality remains of course a core issue of the new Standing Committee, but it is reaching out to the other AER organs to ensure that equal opportunities are considered in all policy areas AER works in.
Valencia (E) 2010: Women and social policies at times of economic crisis
Istanbul (TR) 2010: Women entrepreneurship
Istanbul (TR) 2010: AER Training Academy: Women Entrepreneurship
's-Hertogenbosch (NL) 2009: Working on gender issues
Brussels (B) 2009: AER Breakfast Briefing: Gender4Growth
Valencia (E) 2008: VIIIth AER Conference on Equal Opportunities and Committee 2 Plenary Session
Brussels (B) 2008: Equal Opportunities between Women and Men : Spring Session
Timisoara (RO) 2007: VIIth AER Conference on Equal Opportunities between Women and Men
Brussels (B) 2007: Equal Opportunities between Women and Men : Working Meeting
Kiruna (S) 2006: VIth AER Conference on Equal Opportunities between women and men
Paris (F) 2005: Group on Equal Opportunities - Working meeting
DG Justice-Directorate D-Equality- Gender Equality
DG Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion
New strategy on gender equality
European Institute for Gender Equality
Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality (FEMME)
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