Second Generation INTERREG South Baltic Programme

Deadline: 17 June 2016

The European Union has launched a call for proposals for its Second Generation INTERREG South Baltic Programme, a well recognized financial instrument for cooperation across the southern shores of the Baltic Sea. The Programme is a part of the Interreg initiative and it is co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF).

The main objective of the 2014-2020 South Baltic Programme is to increase the blue and green growth potential of the South Baltic area through cross-border cooperation.

Programme Priorities

The programme priorities are listed below:

Strengthening international activeness and innovation capacity of the South Baltic blue & green economy
Exploiting the environmental and cultural potential of the South Baltic area for the blue and green growth
Improving crossborder connectivity for a functional blue and green transport area
Boosting human resource capacities for the area’s blue and green economy
Increasing cooperation capacity of local actors in the South Baltic area for the blue and green growth

Eligibility Criteria

In the South Baltic Programme the project partnership can consist of three types of partners:
- lead partner (LP);
- project partner (PP);
- associated partner (AP).
In order to act as a lead partner in the South Baltic Programme project an organisation must have a legal personality and fall into one of the categories:
- national, regional and local authorities;
- bodies governed by public law (as defined in Art 2(1) of Directive 2014/24/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 February 2014 on public procurement and repealing Directive 2004/18/EC (OJ L 94, 28.3.2014). This means any body fulfilling all three conditions:
  - established under public or private law for the specific purpose of meeting needs in the general interest, not having an industrial or commercial character, and
  - having legal personality, and
  - financed, for the most part, by the State, regional or local authorities, or other bodies governed by public law; or subject to management supervision by those bodies; or having an administrative, managerial or supervisory board, more than half of whose members are appointed by the State, regional or local authorities, or by other bodies governed by public law.
- associations of one or several regional or local authorities;
- associations of one or several bodies governed by public law;
- European Grouping of Territorial Cooperation (EGTC) (as defined in the Regulation (EC) No 1082/2006 as amended by Regulation (EU) No 1302/2013).
In order to act as a project partner in a South Baltic project an institution must have a legal personality and fall into one of the categories:
- national, regional and local authorities;
- bodies governed by public law (as defined in Art 2(1) of Directive 2014/24/EU);
- other entities established under public or private law operating for the specific purpose of meeting needs in the general interest, not having an industrial or commercial character;
- associations of one or several regional or local authorities;
- associations of one or several bodies governed by public law;
- European Grouping of Territorial Cooperation (EGTC) (as defined in the Regulation (EC) No 1082/2006 as amended by Regulation (EU) No 1302/2013).
- SMEs associations and clusters;
- chambers of commerce, trade unions and NGOs.
Following entities may not be financed by the Programme:
- profit-oriented companies of strictly industrial or commercial character, not operating for the purpose of meeting needs in general interest.