Interreg Italy – Slovenia

Description

With a financial allocation of more than € 90 million, Interreg V-A Italy-Slovenia programme will support a smart, sustainable and inclusive growth as planned by the Europe 2020 Strategy, spending significant resources on growth, innovation,  quality of life and environmental sustainability, also through the improvement of the efficiency of public administration. The Programme will cover the seven-year period of the European Programme 2014-2020, which will be developed to provide continuity with the previous 2007-2013 Programme, which has funded 87 projects aimed at enhancing  competitiveness, research and innovation, protection and promotion of cultural and natural resources, and cross-border activities.

The overall Objective of the Interreg V-A Italy-Slovenia is “Promote innovation, sustainability and cross-border governance to create a more competitive, cohesive and livable area”.

The Interreg V-A Italy-Slovenia programme will support 3 typologies of projects as follows:

1) Standard projects. On June 28th, 2017 the Monitoring Committee approved the ranking lists of the the first calls for standard project proposals No 1/2016 1b, 2/2016 4e, 3/2016 6c, 6d, 6f e 4/2016 11 ETC. Out of 160 project proposals submitted, only 27 standard projects are financed. On January 14th, 2019 the last Call for standard project No 07/2019 has published. Deadline for submitting project proposals: March 15th, 2019 12:00:59 (CET).

2) ITI Projects. On May 3rd, 2017 the subsidy contracts for the two projects for the ITI (Integrated Territorial Investment) implementation approved by the Monitoring Committee in February 2017 were signed. The two projects “Isonzo-Soča” and “Salute-Zdravstvo” will be implemented in the framework of the Integrated Territorial Investment of the cross-border area of EGTC named “GECT GO / EZTS GO”, which includes the Municipalities of Gorizia (Italy), Nova Gorica (Slovenia) and Šempeter-Vrtojba (Slovenia).

3) Strategic projects, which assume a greater relevance in terms of implementation of the EU and Programme strategies concentrating efforts for a stronger cohesion of the new eligible area. The Call for strategic project proposals opened from February 7th, 2018 to March 28th 2018. 10 strategic projects are finaced.

See Interreg V-A Italy-Slovenia 2014-2020 projects (full and updated information are available in Italian and Slovene language)