Strategic Call for Capitalisation
25 projects will be funded to reduce negative effects of borders in central Europe.
New projects starting soon
On 21 May 2026, our programme monitoring committee agreed to co-finance 25 new transnational cooperation projects with a budget of 23,2 million Euro from the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF).
The successful proposals were selected from a total of 73 applications submitted to our final programme call. They bring together 171 organisations from all programme countries and address 14 out of 15 internal national borders of the programme area. In the coming two years, the projects will capitalise on existing Interreg outputs and results to reduce the negative effects of these borders on flows and functional linkages, contributing to a more competitive and resilient central Europe.
Through its strategic approach, the call successfully encouraged cross-border and transnational Interreg projects to join forces and strengthen the territorial and policy impact of existing solutions. Find out which proposals were selected in the video and the table further below. More information about their planned activities will become available soon on the project gateway.
List of selected projects
Project acronyms sorted along priorities in alphabetical order (May 2026)
Cooperating for a smarter central Europe
AI-CONSTRUCT-CE
CAPSULE-CE
CROSS-IN
FoodBridge-CE
HealthBridge_CE
LINK-AGE
RADAR Care
SHIFTT
Youth4Agri
Cooperating for a greener central Europe
Capitan Maurice
CARBON 4 BIOECONOMY
CE-PACT
COOL-BORDER
CROSS-MOVE
ENSURE
Fight4CE
HyAdvanCE
NIGHTVISION4CE
OPTGEO
REC-BRIDGE
ReConstruct4CE
TransCEnd
Cooperating for a better connected central Europe
SUNFLOWER
Improving governance for cooperation in central Europe
Closing the Gap
SustaInTour
Timeline: From call launch to project start
Call launch
29 September 2025
Call closure
27 November 2025
Selection of projects
21 May 2026
Project start
Autumn 2026
Revisit the selection process
Formal checks
After closing the call, we immediately checked the submitted project proposals in early December 2025 against formal and administrative requirements. Project proposals that failed to meet the formal and administrative requirements were considered ineligible. Lead partners were informed about the outcomes of these checks.
Desk assessment
After the formal compliance check, all remaining project proposals were evaluated between December 2025 and April 2026 against the full set of strategic and operational criteria by two independent experts. A State aid assessment was also carried out.
Selection and contracting
The monitoring committee took the funding decision based on the assessment results on 21 May 2026. Selected proposals will have to address specific conditions or recommendations to further improve their quality before entering the contracting phase. Projects are expected to begin implementation once contracting is completed.
Key call documents
(for reference)
Application package
The legal framework of our strategic call was provided in the application package, which also includes its Terms of Reference.
Programme manual
General requirements and rules for applicants (and beneficiaries) can be found in our online programme manual.