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16.11.2023
REGIOSTARS: Dynaxibility4CE wins prestigious European award
The REGIOSTARS 2023 winners have been announced by Commissioner Elisa Ferreira in Ostrava (Czech Republic). Among the six winners was also our Interreg CENTRAL EUROPE project Dynaxibility4CE. It was selected by an expert jury as the best European-funded project in the category ‘A connected Europe’.
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27.10.2023
The way to cooperate: Looking back at the Interreg Annual Event 2023
The European Commission's Directorate General for Regional Policy (DG REGIO) and the Spanish Presidency of the European Council have hosted the Interreg Annual Event 2023 in Santiago de Compostela from 25 to 27 October. The event attracted over 300 Interreg programme representatives, who discussed the current implementation of programmes ...
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18.10.2023
EU Regions Week 2023: Our programme contributions
For many years now, the second week of October has been reserved in Brussels for discussing the present state and future of European cities and regions. This year was no different: From 9 to 12 October, the European Commission and the Committee of the Regions hosted the 21st European ...
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16.10.2023
Programme countries agree to select second call projects in early 2024
Following the relevance assessment, 118 project proposals submitted in the second call were selected for further evaluation, a decision confirmed during the 6th monitoring committee meeting in Vienna today. The final funding decision is set to be made on 31 January and 1 February 2024, during the next monitoring ...
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28.09.2023
Increasing project impacts through communications and synergies
On 26 and 27 September, we hosted a communications and synergies seminar in Vienna for key beneficiaries of 53 transnational projects funded after the first call for proposals. Expert presentations, group training, and peer-to-peer exchanges, helped around 100 participants from across central Europe to further build their capacities on ...
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14.09.2023
Regiostars: Vote now for our shortlisted projects
We are excited that two of our transnational cooperation projects have been selected as finalists in the European Regiostars awards: Dynaxibility4CE and SIforREF. Support them with your vote now! Since 2008, this competition awards the best cohesion-funded projects that demonstrate excellence and new approaches in regional development.
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31.08.2023
Transnational cooperation has a lasting impact on regions
In 2021, we launched an independent impact evaluation of our 2014-20 funding programme. In their final report, a group of external experts found evidence that the programme played a significant role in enhancing stakeholder capacity, building trust, and delivering innovative and high-quality products and services.
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20.06.2023
We are looking for a new colleague to join our team
We have a new vacancy at the Joint secretariat in Vienna. We are looking for a Programme Officer in thematic field of innovation who will help us to assess and monitor projects and provide guidance to applicants and beneficiaries. In addition, the selected candidate will support the overall programme ...
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17.05.2023
Second call closed with 210 project proposals
Our second call for proposals was open from 22 March to 17 May 2023 and will result in the funding of transnational cooperation projects with a budget of around 60 million Euros ERDF. When we closed the call, 1.843 organisations had joined forces in 210 project proposals to work ...
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05.04.2023
Rewatch our Q&A webinar on the second call
We launched our second call for project proposals on 22 March 2023. On 30 March, we organised an online Q&A webinar, in which we tried to answer as many questions from our applicants as possible. If you did not manage to follow the webinar, you can still rewatch it on our ...
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22.03.2023
We have launched our second call
Today, we have launched our second call for project proposals at our programme conference. Wit this call, we invite organisations from across central Europe to submit their transnational cooperation ideas in all funding priorities and specific objectives until 17 May 2023. The indicative call budget is around 60 million ...
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22.03.2023
Programme conference: Cooperation is central for European cohesion
The conference “Cooperation is central for a more cohesive Europe” has taken place in Vienna on 22 March. Together with high-level speakers and nearly 800 participants online and onsite, the programme reflected on achievements of transnational Interreg funding and looked ahead into the future of cohesion policy and territorial ...
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15.02.2023
First call projects ready to go ahead
Do you wonder where our 53 first call projects stand since they were selected by our monitoring committee in December 2022? We are currently contracting them and they will soon start their cooperation beyond borders. In the past few weeks, the projects have fixed minor issues in their work plans ...
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16.12.2022
Second call: Join our applicant community
Only the early bird catches the worm. We have relaunched our applicant community for the upcoming second call. It is now available for all potential applicants to support their search for transnational cooperation partners and project ideas. Register to the community platform for free or re-activate your profile to ...
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16.12.2022
First call: 53 new projects selected
On 15 December 2022, the programme monitoring committee selected 53 new transnational cooperation projects for funding. Following the first call, they will receive co-financing of nearly 100 million EUR from the European Regional Development Fund. The projects will start with their activities in the coming months.
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17.11.2022
EU Regions Week: Why cooperation is central
What has transnational cooperation achieved in central Europe in the past 25 years? How do our cities and regions concretely benefit from cooperation beyond borders? At the EU Regions Week 2022, Luca Ferrarese, our Head of Joint Secretariat, presented examples of how our funding builds trust and initiates change.