Interreg & Cooperation beyond funding

At the beginning of the year the Commission created a “High-Level Reflection Group” to launch a debate on cohesion policy beyond 2027. The 5th meeting of the Group on 4 July focused on the future of territorial cooperation, notably Interreg.

AEBR, ITEM and Benelux Union hold B-Solutions workshop to identify solutions in the area of taxation and social insurance to support cross-border workers and remote working, with the aim to head towards integrated cross-border labour markets.

This year’s Interreg Annual Event, the major annual get together for the Interreg Community, will take place in the historic Spanish city of Santiago de Compostela between 25 and 27 October 2023.

The three strategies are holding their annual fora in October 2023. It will be the opportunity for key implementers of the macro-regional strategies to meet and discuss about the main topics related to their implementation. Stay tuned and register.

Save the date! The event will take place in Porto de Leixões on 19 October 2023.

20 September 2023 is the next submission deadline for proposals for the Public Sector Loan Facility. The Facility can interact and make meaningful synergies with Interreg projects.

Interact has released the latest issue of “Stories of European Cooperation”, a series of articles written by Interreg volunteers and published by Interact in collaboration with the Association of European Border Regions (AEBR) to showcase Interreg’s impact on our daily lives.

For the first time, we welcome the Interreg Mozambique Channel programme! The Conseil Départemental of Mayotte, as managing authority will lead cooperation actions with its neighbours.

The 8th Annual Forum of the EU Strategy for the Adriatic-Ionian Region (EUSAIR), one of the four EU Macro-regional Strategies, took place in Sarajevo from 23 to 25 May 2023 and ended with the adoption of the Sarajevo Declaration. This was the final and very successful event of the Presidency of Bosnia & Herzegovina, which was chairing the Strategy for the first time and for one year and which passed it to Croatia on 1 June 2023.

In the SaarMoselle Eurodistrict at the French-German border, children can discover the language and culture of their neighbours thanks to an electric bus converted into a mobile library.

A forest fire in Spain and France, border closures due to Covid-19 – crises like these call for coordinated help and preventive actions. See here what the EU is doing for better cooperation in cross-border risk management.

If it is for work, education, or cultural activities – the border does not seem to be perceived as an obstacle but rather as extension of the national area, as “living labs of European integration”. However, cross-border commuters face difficulties of which most people are not aware of.

Interreg programmes and projects urged to host young volunteers to support communication and project implementation.