Almost 800 people took part in ‘Europe, let’s cooperate!” in Bologna (Italy), the forum that launched the new Interreg Europe programme for the 2014-2020 period. The event gave the opportunity to CESIE to meet relevant stakeholders and Managing Authority representatives and to learn about the new characteristics of the programme.
Interreg Europe is the successor of Interreg IVC that allowed from 2007 to 2013 the interaction among regions in Europe, following the Cohesion Policy. During the event, results from the former programme were presented by the Managing Authority, as well as the new features, recommendations and main areas of implementation of the new programme.
New Cohesion Policy is guiding Member States and regions in the approval of their operational programmes. While these programmes will be mainly implemented at national or regional level with the support of European Social Fund and European Regional Development Fund mainly, Interreg Europe programme will ensure cohesion among regions in Europe through the interaction among local and regional actors and other non-profit bodies such as NGOs from different countries. It will be focused on these four thematic objectives: research and innovation, SME competitiveness, Low carbon economy and Environment and resource efficiency. Launch of first call for proposals is foreseen in Spring 2015.
CESIE, through the new Higher Education and Research department, its developing a series of research projects under Horizon 2020, Daphne III and Drug Prevention and Information Programme. Interreg Europe will be a new opportunity to contribute to CESIE’s objectives of stimulating local growth, promoting sustainable development and foster progress and innovation in research.
For more information about how CESIE will be involved under Interreg Europe please contact Angela Martinez: partnership@cesie.org
