Interreg Alpine Space Competitors

Interreg Europe is an interregional cooperation programme, co-funded by the European Union. We bring regional and local governments together to share innovative and sustainable solutions to regional development challenges.

Interreg Danube Region Programme promotes economic, social, and territorial cohesion in the Danube Region through policy integration. We finance projects for the development and practical implementation of policy frameworks, tools and services, and concrete small-scale pilot investments. With strong compliance with the broader EU Strategy for the Danube Region (EUSDR). What topic priorities do we support? - A smart, innovative Danube Region - A green, low carbon Danube Region - A more social Danube Region - Well-governed Danube Region Participating countries: Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Moldova, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, and Ukraine.

Interreg CENTRAL EUROPE supports regional cooperation among nine central European countries: Austria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia, as well as parts of Germany and Italy. We help great ideas come true through cooperation beyond borders. We aim to fund projects that bring together professionals across central Europe to work on shared challenges. Our programme is for cooperation what yeast is for baking: we are the tiny but important ingredient that lets ideas grow into jointly developed, tested and accepted solutions. The overall objective is “to cooperate beyond borders to make central European cities and regions better places to live and work” by implementing smart solutions answering to regional challenges in the fields of innovation, low-carbon economy, environment, culture and transport. The total programme budget for projects will be around 231 million Euros from the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF).