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

Project highlights

Browse through our projects and learn more about their impact.

Dynaxibility4CE project

The project boosted eco-friendly transportation and air quality in central Europe by enhancing the capabilities of public transport authorities in seven partner cities and regions to handle emerging mobility trends.

RAINMAN project

The project supported local and regional authorities and stakeholders in dealing with heavy rain risks. It developed measures to reduce those risks in relevant hotspots and helped to improve the response to such emergencies.

Protecht2save project

The project partners contributed to improving capacities of public and private sectors to mitigate the impacts of climate change and natural hazards on cultural heritage sites, structures and artefacts.

Connect2CE project

The project developed governance decision support tools and an integrated ticketing system for improving peripheral and cross-border mobility.

digitalLIFE4CE project

The project created seven Digital Excellence Health Spots with the specific aim of developing cooperation between research and business.

CIRCE2020 project

The project helped to close the loop of 10 secondary raw materials by facilitating a larger uptake of integrated environmental management approach.

TRANSBORDERS project

The project supported the development of new bus connections between Germany, the Czech Republic and Poland, improving the accessibility of remote areas and enhancing cross-border cooperation.

COCO4CCI project

The project developed a platform for co-creation and co-design processes, which enabled  the development of partnerships between businesses and creatives to explore new opportunities for innovation and sustainability.

CE-HEAT project

Thanks to the project heat utilisation is now getting higher visibility in energy policies, strategies and actions plans.

TARGET-CE project

The project used solutions from eight international projects, delivering the “Oneplace platform” that collects best practices, databases of experts, strategies, tools, etc. to support public authorities, citizens, and energy planners.

Projects

 Learn more about projects financed by Interreg CENTRAL EUROPE in 2014-2020.

WHY COOPERATION WAS CENTRAL IN 2014-2020

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We reduced regional disparities

 

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We built trust beyond national borders

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We developed new ideas by sharing experiences

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We solved challenges beyond borders

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We helped to make a better use of limited resource

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We helped improve policy making in regions and cities

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We addressed strategically important issues

 

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We triggered big investments into our future