The Bureau is a group of CoR members that can be thought of as CoR's political driving force: it draws up its political priorities and oversees their implementation. The Bureau meets before each plenary session to coordinate the work of the plenary assembly and the commissions. It also gathers two times a year in extraordinary meetings in the EU country holding the Presidency of the Council of the EU. Going Local will launch with six GP Practices in Nortbrook (Worthing) and Eastbrook (Adur) this month, along with three Community Referrers, recently employed by Adur & Worthing Councils. All will work closely with services in the voluntary and community sectors in their areas to help residents source the right help and support to meet their own individual needs. CIVEX (Commission for Citizenship, Governance, Institutional and External affairs) Commission for Citizenship, Governance, Institutional and External Affairs, CIVEX, constitutional issues, democracy, devolution, subsidiarity, justice, future of Europe, migration, integration, fundamental rights, enlargement, neighbourhood, development cooperation. Local and regional authorities play an essential role when it comes to formulating and implementing EU policies. Therefore, the EU must involve cities and regions better and more strategically in all the decision-making processes and at all stages of the policy-making cycle. European Entrepreneurial Region (EER) The European Entrepreneurial Region (EER) is a project that identifies and rewards EU regions and cities which show an outstanding and innovative entrepreneurial policy strategy, irrespective of their size, wealth and competences.

CoR networks enable regions and cities to contribute to the EU debate and to exchange experiences and best practice in specific EU policies.CoR networks enable regions and cities to contribute to the EU debate and to exchange experiences and best practice in specific EU policies. Advertising with goinlocal made a measurable impact on our business’ - Mathew Pike, Pikes Water Lilies

United Nations Climate Change Conference (UNFCCC COP 27) which is set to take place in Sharm El-Sheik, Egypt, in November 2022, climate commitments from local and regional authorities will be gathered in a map to support the CoR's efforts to strengthen the role of cities and regions in global climate governance and the implementation of the Paris agreement. Eastern Partnership (CORLEAP) Set up by the CoR in 2011, the Conference of Regional and Local Authorities for the Eastern Partnership (CORLEAP) is the political forum of local and regional authorities from the European Union and the Eastern Partnership countries.It is the only EU platform that offers an opportunity to discuss the contribution by cities and regions in the development of the Eastern Partnership. Adur & Worthing Councils, the Coastal Clinical Commissioning Group and West Sussex County Council have launched a new health delivery programme to explore ways of improving community based health solutions. Shop local’ is a retail movement that has gained real traction in recent years, as organisations attempt to encourage consumers to buy produce, clothing and day-today items from local, independent businesses, rather than large retailers. Confronted by climate breakdown, the extinction crisis and rising inequalities, it is easy to feel anxious and hopeless. I feel those things, but in recent months I’ve also been heartened by a surge of grassroots action, of diverse people responding in myriad ways to multiplying crises. To call it an ecosystem of resistance would be overly dramatic, but it is a flowering of good deeds and positive care for local neighbourhoods.

The fact of the matter is, the effects of the pandemic have caused wholesale re-evaluation of supply chains, which has been exacerbated by further challenges, such as the disruption caused by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, subsequent sanctions, and shortages caused by Ukrainian farmers being unable to produce and export grain that the world has come to rely on. PL/ECR), Regional President of Silesia, highlighted: "In 2019, discussions began in the region on the challenges of theTree is now inundated with requests for help and talks. Knepp hosted 2,000 people on special “safaris” in 2017; this year it will host 6,000; 31 farmers from the area around Knepp have signed up to join a neighbourhood “cluster group” to improve the wider landscape for nature. “The loveliest thing is that they are all responding to that message of hope. There’s so much eco-gloom out there, the feeling that we can actually turn things around is what people are grabbing on to … Great white egret flying over!” Tree interrupts herself, as she spots one of Knepp’s latest exciting arrivals. For Rob Hopkins, the co-founder of the Transition Network, meaningful change is now most likely not at the centre but through local government. The Transition movement began in Hopkins’s home town of Totnes, Devon, in 2006, when people began sharing ideas of how to move from a carbon-based economy to a healthier, more sustainable community. Community change often begins with food. “You don’t need anyone’s permission around food. It’s not expensive. You just need people, tools and a deadline,” Hopkins says. In Totnes, “it’s been a fairly lonely furrow for a long time. Finally the surrounding world is starting to catch up a little bit.” Now that 245 local authorities across the UK have declared a climate emergency, which requires tough new carbon-reduction targets, councils will require the practical ideas of the Transition movement. would definitely not switch to lab grown meat, making this a significantly less popular option than others offered such as: cutting out meat altogether, holidaying abroad less, or reducing heating by a degree in the winter.