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Interreg CENTRAL EUROPE Programme provides 80 million Euros for transnational cooperation in early 2015
80 million Euros of European Union co-financing will become available in February 2015 for public and private organisations that want to cooperate beyond borders on innovation, low-carbon strategies, natural and cultural resources or transport. This was decided by the nine Member States of the Interreg CENTRAL EUROPE Programme in their steering group meeting in Brussels on 14 November. The date for opening the first call for proposals remains indicative until official approval of the programme by the European Commission.
Interreg CENTRAL EUROPE is a European Union cohesion policy programme, managed by the City of Vienna. Since 2007 the programme has encouraged transnational cooperation among regions of nine central European countries. Between 2014 and 2020, CENTRAL EUROPE will be able to co-finance new projects with a total budget of EUR 246 million from the European Regional Development Fund. “After funding 124 cooperation projects between 2007 and 2013, Interreg CENTRAL EUROPE will continue to be a relevant instrument for tackling common challenges and needs among cities and regions of Austria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Poland, Slovakia, and Slovenia. Fresh funds are provided for transnational cooperation projects with a focus on building capacities through exchanging good practices and testing new, innovative approaches through small-scale investments,” says Christiane Breznik from the managing authority.
More information on the CENTRAL EUROPE funding priorities as well as rules of participation can be found in the leaflet “PORTRAIT of the CENTRAL EUROPE 2020 Programme” at http://bit.ly/CEflyer or other documents on the new cooperation programme available on www.interreg-central.eu. On the programme website the free-of-charge CENTRAL EUROPE Community also gathers more than 1.300 organisations and offers access to a project idea database with already more than 70 cooperation proposals searching for partners.