Interreg North-West Europe Programme 2014-2020

Mission

The Interreg North-West Europe (NWE) Programme’s mission for 2014-2020 is to produce measurable positive change in the North-West Europe territory.

Essential reading:

Full Cooperation Programme (submitted to the European Commission on 23 March 2015)

Three themes – Five objectives

1. Innovation

To enhance innovation performance of enterprises throughout North-West Europe regions

2. Low Carbon

• To facilitate the implementation of low-carbon, energy and climate protection strategies in order to reduce GHG-emissions in North-West Europe
• To facilitate the uptake of low carbon technologies, products, processes and services in sectors with high energy saving potential in order to reduce GHG-emissions in North-West Europe
• To facilitate the implementation of transnational low-carbon solutions in transport systems in order to reduce GHG-emissions in North-West Europe

3. Resource and materials efficiency

To optimise (re)use of material and natural resources in NWE

 Funding

To achieve its objectives, the Interreg North-West Europe Programme will co-finance cooperation projects with €370 million of ERDF. To reduce the red tape and intensify the guidance to project promoters from a very early stage, the Programme has introduced a 2-step approach:

• Step 1: Concept note: o pass to the next round, projects must be able to explain what measurable change (= results) they intend to achieve and why it matters to the North-West of Europe and to the NWE Programme. 
• Step 2: Full work plan Projects can get up to 60% co-funding if they demonstrate they can achieve a measurable change (=results) on the NWE territory in an economic, efficient and effective way.