North Sea Region Programme: Supporting Development and Foster Sustained Economic Growth across the Region

Deadline: 28 August 2017

Applications are open for North Sea Region Programme with an aim to support development and foster sustained economic growth across the region. The North Sea Region Programme helps enterprises, institutions, public administrations, NGOs and others to pool their expertise, share their experience and cooperate to develop realistic solutions to problems shared by organisations across the region.

With a budget of 167 million euros, the programme manages projects with a particular focus on pilots, demonstrations and trials. Projects typically explore how organisations can work better, often together, for the long-term. Although cutting edge technology is important, we are just as interested in work to develop and test new organisational structures, support networks and innovative practices.

Priority Themes

The programme is focused on four themes that are most relevant and pressing across the region. These themes are:

Thinking growth
- Objectives:
  - Develop new or improved knowledge partnerships between businesses, knowledge institutions, public administrations and end users with a view to long-term cooperation (post project) on developing products and services.
  - Enhance regional innovation support capacity to increase long-term innovation levels and support smart specialization strategies.
  - Stimulate the public sector to generate innovation demand and innovative solutions for improving public service delivery.
Eco-innovation
- Objectives:
  - Promote the development and adoption of products, services and processes to accelerate greening of the North Sea Region economy.
  - Stimulate the adoption of new products, services and processes to reduce the environmental footprint of regions around the North Sea.
Sustainable North Sea Region
- Objectives:
  - Demonstrate new and/or improved methods for improving the climate resilience of target sites.
  - Develop new methods for the long-term sustainable management of North Sea ecosystems.
Green transport and mobility
- Objectives:
  - Develop demonstrations of innovative and/or improved transport and logistics solutions with potential to move large volumes of freight away from long-distance road transportation.
  - Stimulate the take-up and application of green transport solutions for regional freight and personal transport.