"Poverty and social exclusion: What role for regions and cities?"

The Committee of the Regions' conference (29/05/2013) is the fourth in a series of seven events covering the Europe 2020 strategy flagship initiatives.In addition to the opening and closing sessions, three workshops will focus on the following themes:

• Social investment: Active inclusion policies at regional and local level;
• Going local: Community development of deprived urban neighbourhoods and rural areas;
• Crossing borders: Trans-national cooperation between regions and cities on social  inclusion.

http://cor.europa.eu/en/news/events/Documents/poverty_conference_programme.pdf