Interreg Europe: Second Call for Projects Proposals

Deadline: 9-Jun-23

The Interreg Europe is now inviting proposals for its Second Call for Projects to support the exchange and transfer of experience, innovative approaches and capacity building among public authorities and other policy relevant organisations across Europe with a view to improving their regional development policy instruments including programmes under the Investment for jobs and growth goal.

Objectives

• Smarter Europe
  • All specific objectives:
    • Research and Innovation capacities, uptake of advanced technologies
    • Digitisation for citizens, companies, research organisations and public authorities
    • Sustainable growth and competitiveness of SMEs and job creation in SMEs, including by productive investments
    • Skills for smart specialisation, industrial transition & entrepreneurship
    • Digital connectivity
• Greener Europe
  • All specific objectives:
    • Energy efficiency and reduction of greenhouse emissions
    • Renewable energy
    • Smart energy systems, grids and storage
    • Climate change adaptation, disaster risk prevention, resilience
    • Access to water and sustainable water management
    • Circular and resource efficient economy
    • Protection and preservation of nature and biodiversity, green infrastructures, pollution reduction
    • Sustainable urban mobility for zero carbon economy
• More social Europe
  • The following selected specific objectives:
    • Effectiveness and inclusiveness of labour market, access to quality employment, social economy
    • Equal access to health care, health systems resilience, family based and community-based care
    • Culture and tourism for economic development, social inclusion and social innovation
• More connected Europe
  • All specific objectives:
    • Climate resilient, intelligent, secure, sustainable and intermodal TEN-T
    • Sustainable, climate resilient, intelligent and intermodal national, regional and local mobility
• More social Europe
  • The following selected specific objectives:
    • Accesses to education, training and lifelong learning, distance and on-line education and training
    • Inclusion of marginalised communities, low-income households and disadvantaged groups
    • Socio-economic integration of third country nationals, including migrants
• Europe closer to Citizens
  • All specific objectives
    • Sustainable integrated territorial development, culture, natural heritage, sustainable tourism and security (urban areas)
    • Sustainable integrated territorial development, culture, natural heritage, sustainable tourism and security (other than urban)

Eligible Area

• The programme eligible area covers the whole European Union territory with its 27 Member States, including insular and outermost regions. In addition, Norway and Switzerland are full members of the programme and organisations from these countries are eligible to participate in projects. Partners from other countries can participate at their own costs.

Eligibility Criteria

• The following organisations are eligible to receive ERDF or Norwegian funding.
  • Public authorities,
  • Public law bodies (bodies governed by public law),
  • Private non-profit bodies.
  • Private non-profit bodies and partners from Switzerland cannot take on the role of lead partner.

For more information, visit Interreg Europe.