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Upcoming – Interreg Central Europe Call for peripheral and lagging areas

July 23, 2024in 2024 0 Likes

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The next call invites central European organisations to submit ideas for transnational cooperation on small-scale projects. Key details include:

  • Objective: To develop solutions for peripheral and lagging areas, enhancing their attractiveness for living and working.
  • Focus: Territorial and thematic, targeting small-scale projects.
  • Budget: Approximately 14 million Euros from ERDF.
  • Application timeline: Call launch – 15 October 2024; Call deadline – 10 December 2024

 

Territorial Challenges:

Central Europe exhibits structural differences and economic disparities, with more advanced areas like capitals and metropolitan regions contrasting with deprived areas such as peripheral and rural regions. These lagging areas face issues like lower competitiveness, shrinking populations, economic development challenges, connectivity problems, demographic changes, and poor governance and public services.

 

Targeted Territories:

The call aims to unlock the development potential of peripheral and lagging areas, delivering local and regional solutions tailored to their specific challenges in line with the Territorial Agenda 2030. Eligible areas must exhibit one or more of the following:

  • Low economic potential
  • Poor access to services, impacted by demographic change
  • Lack of relational proximity and connectivity
  • Eligible areas can vary in scale from local neighbourhoods to entire regions suffering from peripherality or lagging socio-economic development.

 

Thematic Focus:

The call will focus on four programme-specific objectives (SOs):

  • SO 1.2: Strengthening skills for smart specialisation, industrial transition and entrepreneurship
  • SO 2.5: Greening urban mobility
  • SO 3.1: Improving transport connections of rural and peripheral regions
  • SO 4.1: Strengthening governance for integrated territorial development

 

The call also aligns with PA10 Actions and Targets as targeting peripheral and lagging areas it supports developing local and regional solutions tailored to specific challengers, strengthening institutional capacities in these areas. Furthermore, the focus on strengthening governance for integrated territotrial development supports improving governance frameworks locally and encouraging transational projects enhances cooperation among central European regions and their actors which in turn addresses shared challenges and sharing collective strengths.

 

To remain updated and to check on additional information please check out the call website.

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