Outlines

Post-2020 is rapidly approaching and the preparations for the next programming period have already started respectively are about to start. Even if the relevant EU regulations are not yet approved. However, as the overall set-up and framework for post-2020 is known, this is good moment to start a step ahead of what many of us would consider the ‘real programming process’. Before discussing and constructing a very concrete Interreg programme for 2021-2027, there is a need to set a vision. A vision from which then later derives the intervention (logic) of the single programme. The starting point is not necessarily the individual strategy of an individual Interreg programme. It could (or should?) be the strategy of a certain territory, a strategy how to tackle certain issues – with the combined and coordinated support of Interreg and other funding programmes.

Objectives

Day 1 aims therefore at delivering the message that 'We need a vision' for programming. Hence this event is about setting the scene for the individual programme programming. It is about describing where cooperation across borders is provides added value – and where not. It is about identifying which is the niche of Interreg in the bigger picture and world of various funding sources. To find its right place and to use Interreg for what it is good at.

The event is also about providing concrete (thematic) examples of where Interreg is good at. This will help those involved in shaping the different Interreg programmes to create programmes using the opportunities Interreg provides to its full extent.

Day 2 then is about 'How to get a vision' and 'How to turn a vision into an intervention'. This part of the event is about to create an understanding of the programming process itself. From the different steps to be taken until the programme approval by the European Commission to the relevant actors and stakeholders to be involved in the process.

Registration

The event is designed for max 40 participants. In case the topics of Day 1 and Day 2 are of interest for different persons in your programme/organisation, please feel free to attend on either day only. Please indicate in the online registration if you are going to participate on Day 1 and/or Day 2.