European Week of Regions and Cities

The European Week of Regions and Cities (#EURegionsWeek) is Brussels’ flagship event on Cohesion Policy, co-organised by the European Commission's Directorate-General for Regional and Urban Policy (DG REGIO) and the European Committee of the Regions (CoR). 

The motto for #EURegionsWeek 2025 is Shaping tomorrow, together.

This edition will focus on three key thematic areas:

Cohesion and Growth for the Future

The entire modernisation agenda can be tackled under this theme, establishing a link between well-rooted cohesion policy, values and new growth plans. This theme is linked to the political priorities of the EU, particularly sustainable prosperity and competitiveness, as well as delivering together and preparing our Union for the future.

The focus of these sessions should be on how to design a modernised cohesion and growth policy, working in partnership with national, regional and local authorities, so that the policy is:

• aligned to wider EU priorities
• focused, simple and impactful
• helping to mobilise reforms and investments across the Union, including in its border and outermost regions

The Right to Stay: unlocking the potential of every territory

All citizens should have the right to stay in the place they call home. These sessions should be about how to support what a community needs, so that people want to stay: public services and private activities, education and skills, health, transport and digital connectivity.  
The sessions should: 

• discuss how to effectively organise key services
• present good examples from practice
• allow mutual learning across regions and cities
• address challenges faced in different parts of Europe, including the border areas

Other areas that can be addressed under this theme include:

• a place-based approach and tackling regional disparities
• providing tailor-made solutions to regional and local challenges
• supporting regions to catch up, reverse depopulation and address brain drain

Cities building tomorrow

This theme offers the opportunity to explore how to strengthen cities as engines for innovation, growth and competitiveness, and how to boost their resilience and sustainability. 

These sessions can exchange good practices, tackle common challenges, address new topics, explore collaboration between cities within and across national borders, and in this way help articulate a vision for the future of cities. 

Sessions are welcome to focus on:

• housing
• resilience
• climate action and preparedness
• digitalisation
• mobility
• social inclusion and equality
• quality public services for all
• other relevant topics