In most Interreg projects staff costs constitute the largest part of the budget, which also seems to reflect the challenges faced and variety of approaches applied by programmes for this budget line.

With the Delegated Regulation 481/2014, the legal frame for this programming period 2014-2020 presented significant changes with regard to staff cost for Interreg. The detailed rules for staff costs and different calculation methods meant new opportunities, but also new challenges and uncertainties. For instance, the concept of timesheets was abandoned for some staff cost methods, off-the-shelf simplified cost options were established and other new options were introduced.

In light of those opportunities and challenges, Interact organises a one-day event for experienced programme staff to exchange on practices, to analyse the challenges and maybe to develop joint solutions for still existing problems.