The Interreg programmes aims to promote territorial cooperation between regions and countries to help their economic and social development and tackle the obstacle of borders. The new Interreg 2021-2027 has a total budget of 10 billion euros for the period 2021-2027. Individual programmes are being approved by the European Commission, hence new calls and new projects are progressively financed.
Interreg is made up of almost 100 programmes across Europe’s internal and external borders. These are aiming to contribute to 7 policy objectives of European Union cohesion policy:
The 100 programmes are organised along 4 levels or “strands” of Interreg programmes:
With a budget of 6.5 billion EUR over 7 years, there are 73 different programmes to ensure cross-border barriers and challenges within and at External borders of the EU are addressed, i.e.
This strand allows for cooperation over larger transnational territories or around sea basins. The total budget is 1.5 billion Euros between 2021 and 2027, you can see in the picture below the 14 various Trans-national Interreg co-operation programmes:
It aims at boosting the effectiveness of cohesion policy by promoting exchange of experiences, innovative approaches, and capacity building between regions, 550 million Euro budget has been allocated to interregional cooperation. There are four interregional cooperation programmes within this strand:
This 4th strand which has a 208-million-euro budget covers the following Outermost regions:
Today, the European ecosystem offers a large number of European Programmes and Funds for various thematic areas and fields in which the European Union implements policies and measures.
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