Interreg Rhin Supérieur | Oberrhein

Programme Thematic Objectives

• A greener, low-carbon Europe

  RSO 2.4 Promoting climate change adaptation and disaster risk prevention and resilience, taking into account eco-system based approaches

  • Towards a greener cross-border region: promoting adaptation to climate change as well as energy and ecological transition in the Upper Rhine
    Through this specific objective, the support of the program will support the following developments:
    • Promote the adaptation of ecosystems and their components (water, air, forests, etc.) to climate change and their resilience
    • Prevent climatic, natural, environmental and business-related risks
    • Promote the prevention and joint management of disasters
    • Reduce the climate footprint in all branches of the economy, in particular by supporting innovative economic models such as the green economy and the circular economy and the development of sustainable economic sectors such as sustainable agriculture
    • Accompany climate change by reducing energy dependence, in particular by supporting renewable energies and energy efficiency

  RSO 2.3 Developing smart energy systems, grids and storage outside the Trans-European Energy Network (TEN-E)

  • Towards a greener cross-border region: promoting adaptation to climate change as well as energy and ecological transition in the Upper Rhine
    Through this specific objective, the support of the program will support the following developments:
    • Promote the development and installation of smart energy systems and networks, particularly in the field of electricity (smart grids)
    • Develop energy storage capacities, in particular in the field of renewable energies (such as biomass or photovoltaic) and by supporting innovative storage methods in the fields of hydrogen, storage by fluid compression , storage of electricity by batteries

  RSO 2.7 Biodiversity and green infrastructure

  • Towards a greener cross-border region: promoting adaptation to climate change as well as energy and ecological transition in the Upper Rhine
    Through this specific objective, the support of the program will support the following developments:
    • Promote the protection and/or reintroduction of endangered or declining species as well as animal welfare
    • Promote the conservation and/or restoration of natural environments (wetlands, forest areas, meadows), in particular protected areas as well as Rhine environments
    • Preserve and improve the quality of environmental media (ground and surface water, air, soil)
    • Encourage the protection and extension of ecological continuities
    • Save land by promoting land conversion, particularly industrial wasteland
    • Rationalise waste management on a cross-border scale, in particular by aiming at the development of re-use and re-use sectors at cross-border level
    • Reduce the use of pollutants and their emissions

• A more connected Europe – mobility and regional ICT connectivity

  RSO 3.2 Developing and enhancing sustainable, climate resilient, intelligent and intermodal national, regional and local mobility, including improved access to TEN-T and cross-border mobility

  • Towards a more connected cross-border region: developing and improving mobility in the Upper Rhine
    Through this specific objective, the support of the program will support the following developments:
    • Develop and improve cross-border links with low environmental impact, in particular by promoting the interconnection between transport systems as well as between modes of transport on a cross-border scale
    • Improve the cross-border mobility offer and its access for users of transport systems and modes, including through digital solutions
    • Develop forms of sustainable mobility as well as alternative and innovative modes of transport, contributing to the mitigation of climate change

  RSO 3.1 Developing a sustainable, climate resilient, intelligent, secure, sustainable and intermodal TEN-T

  • Towards a more connected cross-border region: developing and improving mobility in the Upper Rhine
    Through this specific objective, the support of the program will support the following developments:
    • Develop and improve cross-border TEN-T links with low environmental impact, in particular by encouraging interconnection between transport systems at cross-border level.

    Due to the steps for the integration of the two lines Colmar-Freiburg and Karlsruhe-Rastatt-Haguenau-Saarbrücken, it is necessary to mobilise this specific objective as a precaution. If the two lines are integrated into the TEN-T network, this will effectively make it possible to contribute to the financing of these two new TEN-T lines. Without this specific objective, these two lines could not obtain co-financing from the Upper Rhine program within previous specific objective (RSO 3.2) if they were integrated into the TEN-T network.

    Otherwise, if the two lines are ultimately not integrated into the TEN-T network, this specific objective will then not be mobilised during the next programming period. The two Colmar-Freiburg and Karlsruhe-Rastatt-Haguenau-Saarbrücken links may then possibly benefit from co-financing from the Upper Rhine program under specific objective B.1 (and not under this specific objective).

• A more social Europe implementing the European Pillar of Social Rights

  RSO 4.1 Enhancing the effectiveness and inclusiveness of labour markets and access to quality employment through developing social infrastructure and promoting social economy

  • Towards a more social cross-border region: making the Upper Rhine an integrated region in terms of employment, education, training and health
    Through this specific objective, the support of the program will support the following developments:
    • Better understand the labour market at cross-border level and ensure joint monitoring
    • Supporting, facilitating and structuring the connection between supply and demand for employment
    • Support the training offer as well as the development and acquisition of sought-after skills at cross-border level, including in digital form
    • Remove legal, administrative, material, linguistic and cultural obstacles to the development of the labour market at cross-border level
    • Encourage cross-border mobility

  RSO 4.2 Improving equal access education, training and lifelong

  • Towards a more social cross-border region: making the Upper Rhine an integrated region in terms of employment, education, training and health
    Through this specific objective, the support of the program will support the following developments:
    • Better understand and publicise the existing education, apprenticeship and training offer at cross-border level
    • Resolve legal, administrative, financial, material, linguistic and cultural barriers in education and training
    • Develop an offer of education, work-study and common training, including distance education, from an early age and throughout life
    • Reinforce bilingualism, even multilingualism, in the Upper Rhine in multiple forms, from an early age and throughout life
    • Strengthen cross-border mobility from an early age and throughout life

  RSO 4.5 Ensuring equal access to health care and fostering resilience of health systems

  • Towards a more social cross-border region: making the Upper Rhine an integrated region in terms of employment, education, training and health
    Through this specific objective, the support of the program will support the following developments:
    • Better understand the systems and offers of health care and medico-social care at cross-border level and ensure joint monitoring
    • Make known the existing possibilities of access to care and develop prevention actions at cross-border level
    • Facilitate access to care and personalised care pathways at cross-border level, in particular by promoting mutual recognition of standards and costs, better coverage of care on both sides of the border and by removing legal obstacles and administrative
    • Strengthen the attractiveness of territories with a lack of access to care and develop the offer of local care at cross-border level
    • Pooling and specialising equipment and infrastructures on a cross-border scale, creating common healthcare infrastructures
    • Develop digitalisation in the field of health to facilitate communication and coordination at cross-border level and meet the needs not covered by national policies and other existing mechanisms in this area, including in the national plans for recovery and resilience.

  RSO 4.6 Enhancing the role of culture and sustainable tourism

  • Towards a more social cross-border region: making the Upper Rhine an integrated region in terms of employment, education, training and health
    Through this specific objective, the support of the program will support the following developments:
    • Valuing and promoting the natural and cultural heritage as well as the existing cultural and tourist offers in the Upper Rhine region in a common way, encouraging joint or coordinated cultural and tourist territorial marketing
    • Promote the development of new common cultural and tourist offers
    • Develop and structure cultural and tourist sectors at cross-border level
    • Provide joint support to culture and tourism stakeholders in the face of new issues
    • Support employment and business creation in these sectors at cross-border level

• A smarter Europe – innovative and smart economic transformation

  • Towards a smarter cross-border region: making the Upper Rhine a smart region by supporting innovation and businesses in the Upper Rhine
    Through this specific objective, the support of the program will support the following developments:
    • Jointly develop and use new or existing and insufficiently exploited R&D and innovation potential at cross-border level
    • Develop the transfer of technology and knowledge between all players in the value chain at cross-border level, in particular between R&D, innovation and businesses
    • Develop R&D and innovation projects in the areas of smart specialisation strategies for the territories of the Upper Rhine where there are common needs and a strong added value to work at cross-border level: digitalisation, cyber-security, quantum sciences and technologies, energy transition, sustainable mobility, agricultural and forestry sector, bio-economy, innovative therapies and Med Tech, personalised medicine, materials and processes, social innovation

  RSO 1.3 Enhancing sustainable growth and competitiveness of SMEs and job creation in SMEs, including by productive investments

  • Towards a smarter cross-border region: making the Upper Rhine a smart region by supporting innovation and businesses in the Upper Rhine
    Through this specific objective, the support of the program will support the following developments:
    • Promote the development of the economic activity of SMEs through the development of new opportunities and new value creation models for SMEs at cross-border level
    • Encourage the development of sectors that generate growth, innovation and employment at cross-border level
    • Promote common territorial marketing, including through digital solutions
    • Joint support for SMEs faced with new issues

• A better cooperation governance

  RSO 6.2 Enhance efficient public administration

  • Towards a cross-border region closer to citizens: developing cooperation between administrations and citizens, removing obstacles and making daily life easier
    Through this specific objective, the support of the program will support the following developments:
    • Develop and structure the exchange on legal and administrative issues revealing a need for further study and efficiency gains or insufficiently taken into account until now, including by strengthening cross-border data
    • Identify and remove the legal, administrative, material, linguistic and cultural obstacles hindering administrative cooperation and actions aimed at civil society and citizens, including by resorting to experimental mechanisms
    • Improving the governance of jointly managed cooperation structures
    • Simplify the existing cross-border public service offer, in particular by developing digitalisation with administrations
    • Harmonise administrative and legal procedures at cross-border level and develop new offers of cross-border public services, including in digital form
    • Orient cooperation towards the needs of society and citizens

  RSO 6.3 Build up mutual trust

  • Towards a cross-border region closer to citizens: developing cooperation between administrations and citizens, removing obstacles and making daily life easier
    Through this specific objective, the support of the program will support the following developments:
    • Facilitate meetings between citizens to encourage them to take part in cooperation and in the life of the cross-border territory