ERRIN members to host events at the European Week of Regions and Cities 2025

ERRIN members to host events at the European Week of Regions and Cities 2025

The European Week of Regions and Cities, taking place in Brussels from 13–15 October 2025, will once again serve as a leading platform for dialogue on regional and urban policy in Europe. ERRIN is pleased to announce that its members will be strongly represented in this year’s programme, with sessions addressing a wide range of topics relevant to Europe’s regions and cities.

The sessions, organised by ERRIN members, will be structured around three different themes:

Cohesion and Growth for the Future

  • Regional and European contributions to defence area: aligning priorities and funding strategies: Registration here
  • Participatory lab – pooling ideas: water resilience challenge meets bottom-up innovative solutions: Registration here
  • Slow tourism: Europe's gemstone: Registration here
  • The future of programming through the eyes of Strategic Projects: Registration here
  • The regional dimension of cohesion policy is key to European competitiveness: Registration here
  • From Insight to Impact: Strategic Foresight in Action: Registration here
  • Regions strengthening the EU defence industry: Dual-use for a resilient European defence innovation ecosystem: Registration here

The Right to Stay: unlocking the potential of every territory

  • Regions to stay – digital innovations for local development: Registration here
  • Tasting traditions: exploring the right to stay through culinary heritage and regional identity in Thuringia: Registration here
  • Regions and municipalities in action: tackling uncertainty through prevention, preparedness, and protection in European cross-border territories: Registration here
  • Moldova Without Borders: One Heart, One Path: Registration here
  • Unlocking Regional Potential through European University Alliances: The Cases of BAUHAUS4EU and SUNRISE: Registration here

Cities building tomorrow

  • From Pilots to Scale: Cities Mission 2.0: Registration here
  • What Makes Cities Work? Participatory Lab on Rethinking Innovation, Belonging and EU Funding in City Futures: Registration here
  • Let’s build the future in cities together — accelerating the climate transition through impactful U!REKA European university collaboration: Registration here

Further details and registration are available on each session's page.

The full programme of the EU Regions Week is available here.