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The innovation priority addresses key socio-economic challenges and needs within central Europe that are related to smart growth as defined in the Europe 2020 Strategy. It aims at more effective investment in research, innovation and education. The projects funded under this priority help strengthening potentials of technology-oriented areas that are destinations of foreign investments and capital flows, notably through better linking actors of innovation systems. They also address regional disparities in knowledge and education such as brain drain, and strengthen capacities and competences for entrepreneurship and social innovation, also responding to challenges related to demographic change.

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innovation PROJECTS

After two calls for proposals, we are funding 25 transnational cooperation projects on innovation topics. With around 46 million Euro ERDF co-financing, partnerships from central Europe are addressing shared regional challenges.

3DCentral | CERIecon | CROWD-FUND-PORT | FabLabNet | Focus IN CD

I-CON | NUCLEI | PPI2Innovate | TRANS³Net | URBAN INNO

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SYNERGY | INNO-WISEs | THINGS+

Innovation

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To improve sustainable linkages among actors of the innovation systems for strengthening regional innovation capacity in central Europe.

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1.2

To improve skills and entrepreneurial competences for advancing economic and social innovation in central European regions.

innovation in numbers

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16.03.2017

News

Second tranche of innovation projects selected

Interreg CENTRAL EUROPE will fund 15 new innovation projects
following the second call for proposals. Around 27 million Euro from the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) will be transferred to transnational project partnerships over coming years to help linking innovation actors and improve skills for economic and social innovation.

01-02.06.2017

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SMART REGIONS Conference

In 2014 smart specialisation strategies were introduced in the EU's Cohesion Policy as the basis for research and innovation investment. The conference will provide an opportunity to national and regional authorities to share experience of how smart specialisation has been implemented in their countries and regions.

Innovation Results 2007-13

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PORTRAITS Innovation

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The funding programme CENTRAL EUROPE 2007-13 was our predecessor. More than 1.300 public institutions and private businesses closely
cooperated in 124 transnational projects for the benefit of our regions. Take a look at what Interreg achieved already back then:

CENTRAL EUROPE projects 2007-2013

To find out more about projects and beneficiaries of other cross-border, transnational and interregional cooperation programmes within the European Union visit the KEEP database