INTERREG CENTRAL EUROPE – Call for peripheral and lagging areas. Pioneering innovative solutions in small-scale projects

INTERREG CENTRAL EUROPE – Call for peripheral and lagging areas. Pioneering innovative solutions in small-scale projects

Deadline: 10/12/2024 

Location:  Austria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia (81 Programme regions)

Objective: The overall objective of the call is to “pioneer solutions for peripheral and lagging areas, making them more attractive to live and work in”. The call has a territorial and thematic focus,  transnational cooperation ideas for small-scale projects will be funded. Areas to be targeted by projects have to show one or more of the following characteristics: Low economic potential; Poor access to services of general interest, often affected by demographic change; Lack of relational proximity, decline in significance, influence or connectivity. 

The specific objectives are:

  • Strengthening skills for smart specialisation, industrial transition and entrepreneurship;
  • Greening urban mobility;
  • Improving transport connections of rural and peripheral regions;
  • Strengthening governance for integrated territorial development.