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News 14 July 2025

Registration open: Macro-Regional and Sea Basin Strategies Days 2025

Join policymakers and stakeholders across Europe to collaborate on shared challenges and new opportunities in regional development and maritime affairs. Registration is now open for the EU Macro-Regional and Sea Basin Strategies Days 2025.
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What are Macro-Regional Strategies?

In short, Macro-Regional Strategies are frameworks endorsed by the European Council, where countries in the same large region work together to solve shared problems and improve the area for everyone. These strategies may be supported by an Interreg programme, among others, to achieve economic, social and territorial cohesion.

About the event

Registration is now open for the EU Macro-Regional and Sea Basin Strategies Days 2025, co-organised by the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Regional and Urban Policy and Directorate-General for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries.

Event themes

The agenda features interactive workshops on key themes relevant to the four Macro-regional strategies (Alpine, Danube, Adriatic-Ionian, Baltic) and the three Sea Basin Strategies (Atlantic, Western Mediterranean, and Black Sea), with the goal of exchanging knowledge, fostering new synergies, and strengthening existing partnerships:

  • Water resilience through European Union Strategies lenses
  • Increasing energy security and accelerating green energy transition: the role of the Macro-regional and Sea Basin Strategies
  • Cooperation in Action: Addressing Security Challenges through Collective Efforts
  • Transnational Interreg programmes: strengthening cooperation in Macro-regions and Sea basins
  • Coastal Communities at the Forefront: Empowering communities in implementing the European Ocean Pact

Special feature: speed-dating

A speed-dating session offers stakeholders quick, focused conversations with counterparts from European Commission services, fostering collaboration and innovative ideas.

Practical Information

Dates: 24–25 September 2025

Location: Area 42, 175 Rue des Palais, 1030 Brussels

Registration: Register here by 3 September 2025

Contact: REGIO-EU-STRATEGIES-DAYS@ec.europa.eu 

 

Follow up meetings

On 26 September, a High-Level Group and Four-Trio Presidency meeting will be held in Brussels.These meetings are accessible by invitation only.