Final Implementation Report 2014-2020
Citizens’ Summary
Central Europe, our programme area, is home to 150 million people. The regions and cities they live in face similar challenges for their future, and our EU funding programme helps them to address these together without reinventing the wheel. We support transnational cooperation projects with a potential to change central Europe for good.
In the programming period 2014-2020, we funded 138 transnational projects, which were selected within four calls for proposals. The calls were strategically designed to help central European regions and cities to adapt to changing framework conditions through developing and testing innovative approaches and learning from experience.
Between 2014 and 2020, our funding programme reached and even surpassed all targets set in the cooperation programme.
→ 138 projects funded in 4 calls for proposals
→ 1443 organisations cooperating in funded projects
→ 242,8 million EUR of ERDF claimed in total
→ 90 audits carried out on operations with nearly no findings
→ 33 payment applications submitted to the European Commission
First call
2015
35 projects
Second call
2016
50 projects
Third call
2017
44 projects
Fourth call
2019
9 projects
Our projects developed hundreds of outputs and solutions between 2014 and 2020
972
Strategies and action plans developed in 2014-2020
903
Pilots implemented by our projects in 2014-2020
696
New tools and services developed in 2014-2020
989
Trainings provided by our projects in 2014-2020
Our impact
Cooperation makes central Europe better
Between 2020 and 2023, we conducted an independent impact evaluation of our programme. It concluded that our programme plays an important role in helping to bridge socio-economic gaps and reduce differences in the competitiveness of more and less developed cities and regions.
Our transnational cooperation projects help to enhance stakeholder capacity, build trust, and deliver innovative and high-quality products and services across central Europe.
2,720
Institutions adopted new or improved strategies and action plans
4,010
New employment opportunities were created
5,503
Institutions started using new or improved tools and services
80,249
People received comprehensive training
2,726
Million EUR of funds were leveraged
WHY COOPERATION WAS CENTRAL IN 2014-2020
We reduced regional disparities
We built trust beyond national borders
We developed new ideas by sharing experiences
We solved challenges beyond borders
We helped to make a better use of limited resource
We helped improve policy making in regions and cities
We addressed strategically important issues
We triggered big investments into our future