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📣 Interreg Day 2026 may be wrapping up, but there’s still one important step left. If your programme took part in this year’s celebrations, now is the time to share your experience through the Evaluation Survey 💬 Please note: only one survey should be submitted per event. Your feedback will help us understand what worked, measure the impact of the campaign and gather useful insights for future editions. 🗓️ Deadline: 2 November 2026 Take a few minutes to complete the survey made by Interact Programme: 👉 https://lnkd.in/evG2qErH Thank you for helping make Interreg Day 2026 visible, local and shared across Europe 🌍✨ #InterregDay2026 #Interreg #CohesionPolicy

🔬 What if Interreg is not just about funding projects, but about changing the way our territories work? This was the question at the heart of the PO4 event “Interreg projects: Reforming the territory”, held during the European Week of Regions and Cities in Brussels. As Moray Gilland (DG REGIO) highlighted in Stories of European Cooperation, Interreg is increasingly becoming a laboratory for territorial reform. And this is where things get interesting. 🏥 Cross-border healthcare protocols 🤝 Joint employment services 🌱 New approaches to sustainable tourism These are more than project results. They are opportunities to test new ways of working, overcome barriers and rethink how public institutions cooperate. But what happens when the project ends? The real potential lies in turning successful experiments into lasting change: new administrative procedures, shared public services, policy tools or legal agreements. During the workshop, Interreg programmes were invited to look beyond project outputs and focus on what actually changes in the territory. In this sense, Interreg POCTEFA, Interreg Hungary-Slovakia Programme, Interreg IPA Programme "Greece - North Macedonia" and Interreg North Sea Programme presented some projects that modified administrative procedures, created shared protocols between 2 countries or developed new methodologies to address common challenges in various regions. As we look towards post-2027, one question remains: how can we make sure tested solutions are adopted, scaled up and embedded in everyday public action? 💡 The laboratory matters. What we do with its results matters even more. From testing solutions to transforming territories. That’s the potential of Interreg. #Interreg #CohesionPolicy #InterregIsSocial #AMoreSocialEurope Gilles Kittel

🔎 Looking for a new opportunity in cross-border cooperation? InterregGov is seeking experts to support nine programmes working on better cooperation governance, including cross-border obstacles and people-to-people cooperation. 👉 More than 5 years of relevant experience required 📅 Deadline: 10 November 2026, 10:00 CET Applications and tender documents are in English and must be submitted through the ANKÖ platform. Find out more and apply: https://lnkd.in/dFwubcT6 The Guide on “How to get to the tender documents in 3 steps” is on InterregGov webpage https://lnkd.in/drGEDbAR #AbetterInterregGovernance #Interreg

🎬 Behind the Slam. The spotlight is getting closer. Right now, the Interreg Slam 2026-2027 finalists are working behind the scenes to bring their stories to the screen. Scripts are being shaped, cameras are rolling and the final edits are taking form. Every step is bringing us closer to the next stage of the competition. In November, the six finalist videos will be released and the public social media competition will begin 👀 Until then, stay close. The Slam continues. Remember the six finalist stories 🔥 KARST-SAFE, FIRESAFENET, CROSS ALERT and KARST FIREWALL 5.0, from Interreg Italia Slovenija. 🎓 Connect’ED, from Interreg Meuse-Rhine (NL-BE-DE).  🌊 ECONUT, from Interreg South Baltic Programme. ♻️ Target Circular, from Interreg Northern Periphery and Arctic.  💙 REHAB, from Interreg VI-A Lithuania-Poland Programme. 🌿 RiverDiv, from Interreg Rhin Supérieur | Oberrhein.  Stay tuned! 👉 https://lnkd.in/eMX-Kwhb #InterregSlam #Interreg #CohesionPolicy

📍 Yesterday at #EURegionsWeek, the Interreg family took over the Square stands area, and what a day it was! 🇪🇺 Visitors discovered how cooperation makes our regions stronger through many inspiring examples. Some explored Interreg’s achievements in a Smarter, Greener and More Social Europe, and Better Cooperation Governance at Interreg in action. Others saw how Interreg programmes at the EU’s external borders build resilience and solidarity with our neighbours at Strong neighbours, strong Europe 🤝. And at the Strong regions and strong Europe through cooperation stand, Interreg Europe presented its project results and the Policy Learning Platform 🌱 Thank you to everyone who stopped by, and to all the Interreg colleagues who made it possible! 💙 Interact Programme, Interreg TESIM NEXT Interreg Europe #Interreg #CohesionPolicy

🏃♀️🏃♂️ Running beyond borders, together! 🇹🇷🇧🇬 Loved seeing how our friends from Interreg IPA Bulgaria-Türkiye Programme celebrated Interreg Cooperation Day 2026 in Kıyıköy! 🎉 Sport, culture and cross-border cooperation all on the same course, following the footsteps of projects that connect the past with the future 💙 Watch the video and join the run 👇

The next move for Interreg? Making sure good ideas can go further ♟️ CHESS START RO-HU offers an example of how a project's benefits can extend beyond the original participants. 🇷🇴🇭🇺 In Romania and Hungary, social services NGOs and chess organisations joined forces to address challenges affecting children from marginalised Roma communities: unequal educational opportunities, discrimination and barriers to social inclusion. Together, they developed a chess-based learning programme, reporting improvements in children's cognitive assessments and behaviour. The partners also produced a methodology guide, allowing other organisations to learn from their experience and adapt the approach to their own communities. 🇪🇺 This is an important consideration for Interreg after 2027: how to help grassroots organisations build lasting partnerships, develop solutions to shared challenges and make their experience useful to communities beyond the original project. 🔗 Read more about our perspective: https://lnkd.in/enTsncQU #Interreg #EURegions #TerritorialCooperation #SocialInclusion #FutureOfEurope

📅 Today, 12 October, the EU Regions Week kicks off in Brussels! Discover all the sessions available and the role Interreg will play there: European Territorial cooperation at the heart of Europe's regions and cities 🌍 Here's to a great week, enjoy it! 🙌 #EURegionsWeek #Interreg

🤝🌍 Inclusion means creating opportunities for everyone to participate, move, work and experience their communities. On World Inclusion Day, we spotlight four Interreg projects helping remove barriers and make territories more accessible and inclusive: 👩💼 CeMeWE, from Central Baltic Programme, supports immigrant women in strengthening their skills and employment opportunities. 💡 TASK4ISI, from Interreg CENTRAL EUROPE Programme, promotes inclusive entrepreneurship for groups that are still underrepresented in business. ♿ DANOVA NEXT, from Interreg Danube Region Programme, is improving transport accessibility for passengers with disabilities and reduced mobility. 🚲 Green Railway II, from Interreg Estonia-Latvia, is making cross-border tourism routes more accessible to people with different needs. Different challenges, one shared ambition: making sure more people can take part. 💙 #WorldInclusionDay #Interreg #CohesionPolicy #InterregIsSocial #AMoreSocialEurope

For people travelling across borders, the weak point in a journey is often where two transport systems meet.    That is one of the practical challenges emerging from consultations on the future of Interreg.    🚃 Citizens and stakeholders point towards closer planning of transport services across borders, alongside greener mobility pilots, targeted improvements to regional connectivity and stronger links with EU and national transport investments.    Taken together, these priorities suggest a clear direction: look at cross-border mobility as one journey, rather than separate transport systems ending at the border.    🇪🇺 These findings are helping inform discussions about Interreg after 2027 and how territorial cooperation can complement wider investment in European connectivity.    🔗 Read more: https://lnkd.in/enTsncQU    #Interreg #EURegions #ConnectedEurope #FutureOfEurope