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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

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Objectives

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1.1

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.

Third call for proposals

Our third call for proposals will be launched on 21 September and stay open until 25 January 2018. Around 60 million EUR will become available for new transnational cooperation ideas. Around 20 million EUR ERDF from this budget will be allocated to the project ideas that help to improve capacities for urban and regional development in innovation priority.

In innovation, both specific objective 1.1 and 1.2 will be targeted, encouraging transnational project ideas to exclusively improve:

➜ Bottom-up implementation of smart specialisation strategies; triple and quadruple helix approaches which strengthen the participation of public and civil society; innovative practices such as co-creation approaches and actions that bring innovation closer to the market ➜ Social innovation and the integration of disadvantaged groups and regions through strengthening support infrastructures, services and schemes; development of entrepreneurial competences to strengthen social innovation

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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+

22.06.2017

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Third call comes with a thematic focus

Interreg CENTRAL EUROPE will offer around 60 million EUR ERDF for new transnational cooperation ideas as of 21 September 2017. The programme is also looking for project ideas in innovation priority that will help linking innovation actors and improve skills for economic and social innovation.

17-20.10.2017

EVENT

Innovating Cities

Urbanisation and industrialisation over the past 150 years have affected and will continue to affect our planet. Making cities inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable is a global objective that will require innovative, coordinated and systemic solutions for the urban environment. The conference will bring together science, planners, businesses and citizens to find common solutions to urban life challenges.

innovation in numbers

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Innovation Results 2007-13

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PORTRAITS Innovation

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Cooperation map

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