Programme description
Main objectives
Transnational cooperation in central Europe is the catalyst for implementing smart solutions answering to regional challenges in the fields of innovation, low-carbon economy, environment, culture and transport. It builds regional capacities following an integrated bottom-up approach involving and coordinating relevant actors from all governance levels.
Funding priorities
The Programme will focus on four main priorities:
- Cooperating on innovation to make Central Europe more competitive
- Cooperating on low-carbon strategies in Central Europe
- Cooperating on natural and cultural resources for sustainable growth in Central Europe
- Cooperating on transport to better connect Central Europe
Expected impacts
- To improve sustainable linkages among actors of the innovation systems for strengthening regional innovation capacity and to improve skills and entrepreneurial competences for advancing economic and social innovation
- To develop and implement solutions for increasing energy efficiency and renewable energy usage in public infrastructures; to improve territorially based low-carbon energy planning strategies and policies supporting climate change mitigation ; to improve capacities for mobility planning in functional urban areas to lower CO2 emissions
- To improve integrated environmental management capacities for the protection and sustainable use of natural heritage and resources;
- To improve capacities for the sustainable use of cultural heritage and resources;
- To improve planning and coordination of regional passenger transport systems for better connections to national and European transport networks; to improve coordination among freight transport stakeholders for increasing multimodal environmentally-friendly freight solutions
Funds
Regional Development Fund (ERDF): 246.581.112,00 €
Thematic priorities
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Total OP budget: 298.987.026,00 €
Total EU contribution: 246.581.112,00 €
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