Webinar: Leveraging Funding for Interregional Collaboration
Join us on 12th of May 2025 for a webinar hosted by the S3 Community of Practice (S3CoP) Working Group on Interregional Collaboration!
Find out how domestic and EU funding can be better leveraged to support interregional collaboration – a key enabler for unlocking innovation-led growth across Europe. Bringing to gether S3 practitioners, policymakers and regional stakeholders together with our newly published Working Group paper, the webinar will include:
- Lessons learned from 12 EU regions and key takeaways from a 2024 pilot action involving Tuscany (IT), Norte (PT), North-East Romania (RO) and Jönköping (SE).
- Six good practices for aligning domestic and EU funds.
- A portfolio approach to IC – how to integrate and sustain interregional collaboration through better-aligned domestic and EU funding instruments.
- Insights from the S3 survey – WG position on how to enhance IC in the next EU funding period, including a call for simplified rules, dedicated ERDF resources, and joint evaluation methods.
- Policy reflections – on barriers such as low capacity, the role of Managing Authorities, risk-averse audit frameworks, and the need for space for experimentation under ERDF.
2025 is a key year for policy decisions supporting the Competitiveness Compass which will involve cohesion policy, future funding, the future role for S3…Don’t miss this opportunity to learn how to embed interregional collaboration into your regional innovation strategies and funding instruments.
The Working Group on Interregional Collaboration developed within the S3 Community of Practice aims to foster a learning process for relevant policy stakeholders on the fulfilment of the S3 enabling condition for interregional collaboration.
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