Interreg North Sea

Description

The Interreg North Sea Region Programme 2021- 2027 funds cooperation across borders to stimulate a green and sustainable future.
Our support enables partnerships to test new ideas and address joint challenges in the North Sea Region.
Our vision is to create a vibrant North Sea Region by helping innovators get their game-changing ideas off the ground.

The North Sea Region Programme 2021-2027 centres on four thematic priorities. Each priority includes one to three specific objectives:

• Robust and smart economies in the North Sea Region
  • Enhancing research & innovation capacities and the uptake of advanced technologies
  • Developing skills for smart specialisation, industrial transition and entrepreneurship
• A green transition in the North Sea Region
  • Promoting energy efficiency measures & reducing greenhouse gas emissions
  • Promoting renewable energy
  • Promoting smart energy systems, storage and grids
  • Promoting the transition to a circular economy
  • Promoting sustainable multimodal urban mobility
• A climate resilient North Sea Region
  • Promoting climate change adaptation, risk prevention and disaster resilience
  • Enhancing biodiversity, green infra-structure in the urban environment, and reducing pollution
• Better governance
  • Better cooperation governance

The spotlight themes below apply across all priorities. They are additional dimensions of special importance in the North Sea Region. There are three spotlight themes:

• Digitalisation
• Rural-urban linkages
• Strengths & challenges in the North Sea basin

If a spotlight theme is relevant to your project, we recommend you pay attention to it. Projects that are not connected to spotlight themes, however, will stand an equal chance of approval.