Embedding macro-regional strategies

Summary:

Study published by Interact in June 2017 on 'Embedding macro-regional strategies'.

Further information:

This study provides an analysis of the cooperation and coordination methods and tools applied by EU funding programmes that aim to embed the EU Strategy for the Danube Region (EUSDR) and the EU Strategy for the Adriatic and Ionian Region (EUSAIR) into 23 preselected EU funding programmes in the period 2014-2020. These programmes are partly supported by different European Structural and Investment Funds (ESIF) and partly by the Instrument for Pre-accession Assistance II (IPA II) or the new European Neighbourhood Instrument (ENI).

This study shows that the systematic embedding of the EUSDR and EUSAIR is the result of a continuous, comprehensive process, comprising a range of actions with three main dimensions:

1. Actions to ensure compliance with the provisions of macro-regional strategies in the relevant EU regulations for the funding period 2014-2020;
2. Actions that apply “synergy-enabling rules” to the current EU regulation and associated non-regulatory approaches and tools that support the implementation of macro-regional strategy;
3. Actions in the field of coordination, cooperation and information exchange to ensure a more coherent implementation of a macro-regional strategy.

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