Interreg Baltic Sea Region

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• Programme Thematic Objectives

  • A smarter Europe – innovative and smart economic transformation

    RSO 1.1 Developing and enhancing research and innovation capacities and the uptake of advanced technologies

    • Resilient economies and communities
      - Increase of their capacity to innovate and uptake advanced
      technologies to change the way of delivering public services in the Baltic Sea Region
      - Strengthening of their capacity to create innovative partnerships for the benefit of the communities and business
      - Removal of the obstacles in innovation processes and broadening of the basis for the public service innovation through increasing engagement of residents
      - Increase of the role of the public in showcasing green solutions

    • Read about Innovative societies programme priority on the programme website.

    RSO 1.4 Developing skills for smart specialisation, industrial transition and entrepreneurship

    • Resilient economies and communities through:
      - Increase of their capacities for applying smart specialisation approaches, industrial and societal transition as well as entrepreneurship
      - Understanding of the skills required to develop and test solutions sustaining BSR economy
      - Increase of their capacity to avoid unwanted impacts from external disturbances
      - Reinforcement of the meaning of communities in the innovation processes
      - Contributing to building resilience of the Baltic Sea region taking into account uneven territorial developments and unequal impacts on different social groups.

    • Read about Innovative societies programme priority on the programme website.

  • A greener, low-carbon Europe

    RSO 2.5 Promoting access to water and sustainable water management

    • Sustainable waters:
      - Increase of the capacity to manage water and connected sectors in a more competent, sustainable and efficient way in a changing climate.
      - Wider application of available and newly tested water management solutions or solutions across different sectors.
      - Lower water pollution, removing pollutants from water and improving water quality. -- Improved urban and rural planning processes for better water management and help adapt water management strategies and action plans to emerging challenges.
      - Shift of consumers and production patterns in using water and materials thus preventing water pollution.

    • Read about Water-smart societies programme priority on the programme website.

    RSO 2.1 Energy efficiency

    • The Programme supports actions targeting:
      - Decarbonisation of energy systems in the region in order to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
      - The development of solutions that increase energy efficiency in industrial production processes as well as in public and private building stock
      - The increase of renewable energy production from locally available resources

    • Read about Climate-neutral societies programme priority on the programme website.

    RSO 2.6 Circular economy

    • The Programme supports actions that:
      - Facilitate the shift from linear to circular resource use
      - Carries holistic approaches that go beyond waste management to connect with water, energy, transport and land use
      - Build an enabling environment and raise awareness for circular opportunities
      - Untap the potential of digitalisation as a means of achieving a resource-efficient economy in the Baltic Sea region

    • Read about Circular economy programme objective on the programme website.

    RSO 2.8 Urban mobility

    • The Programme encourages the development of solutions that
      - Harmonise mobility systems across borders and thus enabling a coherent use of green mobility solutions
      - Enhance the capacity of public authorities in national, regional and urban planning to introduce green and intelligent mobility solutions to reduce pollution in cities and towns and their hinterland
      - Actively use green and intelligent mobility solutions by introducing technical solutions and changing mobility behaviours and demands

    • Read about Smart green mobility programme objective on the programme website.

  • A better cooperation governance

    RSO 6.1 Enhance the institutional capacity of public authorities

    • The Programme supports actions that:
      - Implement and strengthen governance and communication activities in the EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region (EUSBSR).
      - Help to the coordinators of the EUSBSR policy areas (PACs) to carry out additional tasks in order to coordinate the planning and implementation of the EUSBSR policy areas
      - Inform regional and EU stakeholders about the progress and achievements of these areas, changes and next steps in implementing the EUSBSR Action Plan
      - Ensure administrative, communication and capacity building assistance to the national coordinators of the EUSBSR
      and other stakeholders, for instance, in the form of a strategy point.

    • Read about Cooperation governance programme priority on the programme website.

    RSO 6.6 Other actions to support better cooperation governance

    • The Programme supports the cooperation of EU-funded projects in project platforms. These actions should:
      - Bring the results of various projects from different EU funding programmes to stakeholders in the Baltic Sea region in a structured way
      - Help public authorities and other organisations access project results more easily.
      - Identify solutions developed by projects and other initiatives in EU funding programmes, also co-funded by the third country Norway, relevant for the Baltic Sea region and interlink and synthesise them
      - Target public authorities as main drivers of policy change in the region and, in addition, closely involve relevant pan-Baltic organisations.

    • Read about Project Platforms programme objective on the programme website.

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Last open call closed on 14th March 2023