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Interreg Europe is a funding programme that helps regional and local governments across Europe to develop and deliver better policy.
This call aims to gather policy-relevant organisations from different countries in Europe working together on a common regional development issue.
Through its cohesion policy, the European Union works to reduce disparities both in the levels of development and in quality of life in European regions. It promotes actions aiming at making the European territory more innovative, more sustainable, and more inclusive, thus improving quality of life of the inhabitants. The large majority of the funds designated to reduce these disparities are managed at the regional or national levels. The European Union believes that regional development can also be improved through cooperation across borders.
In this context, the Interreg Europe programme supports the exchange and transfer of experience, innovative approaches and capacity building among public authorities and other policy relevant organisations across Europe with a view to improving their regional development policy instruments including programmes under the Investment for jobs and growth goal.
This is a call for proposals for interregional cooperation projects. These projects gather policy-relevant organisations from different countries in Europe working together on a common regional development issue. The first three years of the projects (‘core phase’) are dedicated to exchange and transfer of experience among the participating partners in order to improve the policy instruments addressed by the project. In the fourth and last year (‘follow-up phase’), the regions mainly focus on monitoring the results and impact of the cooperation.
Read more details in the Programme Manual.
The programme eligible area covers the whole European Union territory with its 27 Member States, including insular and outermost regions. In addition, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Moldova, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Norway, Serbia, Switzerland and Ukraine are full members of the programme and organisations from these countries are eligible1 to participate in projects. Partners from other countries can participate at their own costs.
The following organisations are eligible to receive funds:
In line with the programme’s objective, the policy responsible authorities are the core target group of Interreg Europe. These organisations can be national, regional or local authorities as well as other relevant organisations responsible for elaborating and/or implementing regional development policies
Therefore, the involvement of the policy responsible authority as partner is compulsory for at least 50% of the policy instruments addressed in a project application. For the remaining policy instruments (if any), these authorities must be involved as an ‘associated policy authority
Projects must involve partners from at least three countries, at least two of which must be beneficiaries from EU Member States. To be eligible in the third call, the applications submitted have to ensure that at least four out of the five areas (North, East, South, West, Candicate countries area) are represented in the partnership with at least one project partner. See call document page 6.
Up to 40% of the overall Interreg funds budget (approximately EUR 130 million) of the Interreg Europe programme is made available for the third call for proposals. The final committed budget will depend on the quality of the submitted applications.
The eligible project activities are co-financed by the Interreg funds at a rate of either 70% or 80% depending on the legal status of the project partner from the 27 EU Member States and the 7 EU candidate countries.
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