Dialogue4Nature, the Institutional Dialogue Project of the Interreg Euro-MED Natural Heritage Mission
Programme 2021 - 2027 Interreg VI-B EURO Mediterranean (EURO MED)Description
Dialogue4Nature Knowledge base (EN)
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Mediterranean WGs organisation(EN)
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Dialogue4Nature Solutions(EN)
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Policy blueprints on Mediterranean resilience (EN)
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Mediterranean Resilience Network (MRN) (EN)
Website: https://interreg-euro-med.eu/en/
Thematic information
Priority:
(VI-B_EM_3) MED GovernancePriority specific objective:
ISO6.6. Other actions to support better cooperation governance (all strands)Priority policy objective (Interreg specific objective):
PO6 (ISO1) A better cooperation governanceType of intervention:
173 Enhancing institutional capacity of public authorities and stakeholders to implement territorial cooperation projects and initiatives in a cross-border, transnational, maritime and inter-regional contextPartners (8)
Lead Partner: Περιφέρεια Κρήτης
PIC (Participant Identification Code): 961026337
Partner’s ID if not PIC: 997579388 | EL243000001
Department: Department of European and International Affairs
Address: Eleftherias Square, 71201 Heraklion, Greece
Department address: Averof Georgiou, 71201 Heraklion, Greece
Legal status: public
Organisation type: Regional public authority
Website: http://www.crete.gov.gr
Total budget: EUR 635 431.05
Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 508 344.84
Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 80.00%
Partner contribution: EUR 127 086.21
- Regione Autonoma della Sardegna
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Name: Regione Autonoma della Sardegna
Department: Regional Environmental Department
Partner’s ID if not PIC: 8000287092 | IT2G2000001 | . (FR), . (EN)
Address: via Roma, 09123 Cagliari, Italy
Department address: via Roma, 09123 Cagliari, Italy
Legal status: public
Organisation type: Regional public authority
Total budget: EUR 398 000.00
Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 318 400.00
Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 80.00%
Partner contribution: EUR 79 600.00
- Ministarstvo turizma, ekologije, održivog razvoja i razvoja sjevera
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Name: Ministarstvo turizma, ekologije, održivog razvoja i razvoja sjevera
Department: Department for Climate Change and Nature Protection
PIC (Participant Identification Code): 889288338
Partner’s ID if not PIC: 11094040 | ME102000002 | . (FR), . (EN)
Address: IV proleterske brigade, 81000 Podgorica, Montenegro
Department address: IV proleterske brigade, 81000 Podgorica, Montenegro
Legal status: public
Organisation type: National public authority
Website: https://www.gov.me/mepg
Total budget: EUR 208 335.65
Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 166 668.52
Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 80.00%
Partner contribution: EUR 41 667.13
- Institut za More
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Name: Institut za More
Department: N/A
PIC (Participant Identification Code): 886705810
Partner’s ID if not PIC: HR65139477468 | HR110000001 | . (FR), . (EN)
Address: Kastel, 51551 Veli Losinj, Croatia
Department address: N/A, N/A N/A, Croatia
Legal status: public
Organisation type: Other
Website: https://marineinstitute.eu/
Total budget: EUR 649 950.00
Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 519 960.00
Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 80.00%
Partner contribution: EUR 129 990.00
- Associació MedCities
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Name: Associació MedCities
Department: General Secretariat
Partner’s ID if not PIC: G66401258 | ES499000010 | . (FR), . (EN)
Address: Calle 62, Zona Franca, 8040 Barcelona, Spain
Department address: Street 62, 08040 Barcelona, Spain
Legal status: public
Organisation type: Interest groups including NGOs
Website: https://medcities.org
Total budget: EUR 599 480.00
Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 479 584.00
Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 80.00%
Partner contribution: EUR 119 896.00
Contractors:
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Name: ABALINGUA GLOBAL SOLUTIONS SLU
VAT registration or tax identification number: B60809142 -
Name: COOP POSANT EN COMÚ SCCL
VAT registration or tax identification number: F66655887 -
Name: MARFÀ BADAROUX DRETS PÚBLICS
VAT registration or tax identification number: B66861824 -
Name: ANNA PLANDIURA I RIBA
VAT registration or tax identification number: 43691035M -
Name: GESTION 5, SOC. COOP. AND.
VAT registration or tax identification number: F41620873
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Name: ABALINGUA GLOBAL SOLUTIONS SLU
- Plan Bleu pour l'Environnement et le Développement en Méditerranée
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Name: Plan Bleu pour l'Environnement et le Développement en Méditerranée
Department: N/A
PIC (Participant Identification Code): 997732883
Partner’s ID if not PIC: 33332248500058 | FR590000005 | - (FR), - (EN)
Address: Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur (FRL0), 13002 Marseille, France
Department address: N/A, N/A N/A, France
Legal status: public
Organisation type: International organisation, EEIG
Website: https://planbleu.org/
Total budget: EUR 789 853.30
Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 631 882.64
Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 80.00%
Partner contribution: EUR 157 970.66
Contractors:
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Name: DELOITTE ET ASSOCIES
VAT registration or tax identification number: FR02572028041
Sub-Contractors:
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Name: DELOITTE ET ASSOCIES
VAT registration or tax identification number: FR02572028041
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Name: DELOITTE ET ASSOCIES
- UNION INTERNATIONALE POUR LA CONSERVATION DE LA NATURE ET DE SES RESSOURCES
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Name: UNION INTERNATIONALE POUR LA CONSERVATION DE LA NATURE ET DE SES RESSOURCES
Department: Spatial Planning and Ecosystem Resilience Programme
PIC (Participant Identification Code): 999918972
Partner’s ID if not PIC: W0391213F | ES530000304 | . (FR), . (EN)
Address: C/Marie Curie, 29590 Campanillas, PTA, Málaga, Spain
Department address: C/Marie Curie, 29590 Campanillas, PTA, Málaga, Spain
Legal status: private
Organisation type: Interest groups including NGOs
Website: https://www.iucn.org/regions/mediterranean
Total budget: EUR 718 950.00
Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 575 160.00
Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 80.00%
Partner contribution: EUR 143 790.00
Contractors:
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Name: GRUPO DE AUDITORES PÚBLICOS
VAT registration or tax identification number: A92015254
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Name: GRUPO DE AUDITORES PÚBLICOS
- Ministarstvo ekologije, prostornog planiranja i urbanizma
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Name: Ministarstvo ekologije, prostornog planiranja i urbanizma
Department: Directorate for Nature/Division for Integrated Management of Marine and Coastal Ecosystems
PIC (Participant Identification Code): 889288338
Partner’s ID if not PIC: 02760517
Address: IV proleterske brigade, 81000 Podgorica, Montenegro
Department address: IV proleterske brigade, 81000 Podgorica, Montenegro
Legal status: public
Organisation type: National public authority
Website: https://www.gov.me/mepg
Total budget: EUR 208 335.65
Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 166 668.52
Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 80.00%
Partner contribution: EUR 41 667.13
Partners map
Lead partner
Project partner
Summary
Operation of strategic importance (OSI) or above EUR 5 million
Project acronym: Dialogue4Nature
Project ID: Euro-MED0300945
Project start date: 2023-01-01
Project end date: 2029-09-30
Project status:
ongoingRelevant linked projects:
- - (FR), Panoramed (EN) | The Panoramed Project is a governance platform with the aim to support the process of strengthening and developing multilateral cooperation frameworks in the Mediterranean region to work together for joint response sto common challenges.
- It recognised mainstreaming as a process requiring leadership, active management and participation of givers, receivers, and facilitators and requiring a good flow of information both vertically and horizontally regarding priorities and needs, and dedicated resources to implement.
- The Dialogue4Nature project will integrate relevant information from the main achievements of the Panoramed project in which some of the partners were involved and that could be useful to include challenges such as the sustainability, digitalisation and specially in governance.
- The Euro-MED Dialogue4Nature project will incorporate and consider the knowledge generated by the PANORAMED project through: the Dialogue4Nature proposed thematic dialogues that will improve information flows in support of better multi-level governance. Policy, stakeholder and best practices mapping exercises will aid the strengthening of coordination and facilitation of mainstreaming. In particular: analyses will aim to identify framework conditions as a way to identify policy gaps and so prioritise mainstreaming strategies, facilitating more rapid transfer and mainstreaming.
- (EN), -- (FR), PANACEA (EN), - (FR) | The objective of the PANACeA horizontal project (2016-2019) was to streamline networking and management efforts in Mediterranean Protected Areas (PAs) as a mechanism to enhance nature conservation and protection in the region. The project aimed to ensure synergies between relevant Mediterranean stakeholders –including managers, policymakers, socio-economic actors, civil society and the scientific community – and to increase the visibility and impacts of the thematic projects’ results towards common identified strategic targets. It acted as the communication and capitalisation instrument of thematic projects dealing with protection of biodiversity and natural ecosystems.
- The main thematic focus areas included coastal and marine management, biodiversity monitoring, sustainable use of natural resources, management of protected areas, global changes, governance, cooperation and scientific and innovative methodologies, under the umbrella of 11 thematic projects.
- PANACeA acted as a Science-Policy-Interface (SPI) to foster the exchange of experiences and knowledge sharing and thus influenced a behavioural and policy change in the Mediterranean region.
- The Mediterranean Biodiversity Protection Community (MBPC) (2019-2022) already consolidated the results of this project. Some partners of Dialogue4Nature are members of the partnership of Dialogue4Nature which will ensure to build on the previous work, with emphasis on the contribution towards the solutions developed by the modular projects. (EN), -- (FR), - (FR), Interreg Med Horizontal project:
- Mediterranean Biodiversity Protection Community (MBPC) (EN) | -- (FR), The Mediterranean Biodiversity Protection Community project (2019-2022) is a continuation of the PANACeA project (2016 to 2019). It aims at “mainstreaming management efforts for environmental sustainability and increasing the impact of biodiversity protection projects towards common identified strategic goals”.
- The MBPC facilitated multisectoral dialogue with the scientific community to ensure an effective policy-management-science interface in the Mediterranean related to biodiversity protection and sustainable development. It pursued the long term strategic goal of the Interreg MED programme by reaching beyond EU Member States into the whole Mediterranean basin. It aimed to feed EU, UNEP/MAP Barcelona Convention and CBD policies linked to the protection of natural resources for sustainable development in Mediterranean protected areas and key ecological function units and ecosystems.
- The Dialogue4Nature project will integrate the results and the knowledge of the 17 Modular projects that were part of the MBPC from 2019-2022. This will be ensured by the partners that were members of the MBPC (Plan Bleu, MedCities, Ministry of Montenegro and Marine Institute) all of them members of the three working groups that have been promoting collaborative work and helping build capacity in partners and interested actors for effective biodiversity protection.
- Furthermore, the Dialogue4Nature project will incorporate in the implementation of their activities all the experience and lessons learned during the past 3 years concerning the community building,transferring and capitalization processes and, therefore, this will be the basis to support the project to create a transfering potential with a broader approach, linking with other networks, strategies, programmes and initiatives.
- (EN), - (FR), Interreg Med Horizontal project: Blue Growth Community(BGC) (EN) | The Mediterranean Blue Growth community (2019-2022), after laying the foundations for a strong community during the project’s 1st phase (InnoBlueGrowth project, 2016-2019), has developed its capitalization phase. It assisted and coordinated the modular/integrated projects dealing with Blue Growth in their communication and capitalization activities, creating and ensuring internal (inter-community) and external synergies, knowledge sharing, transfer and capitalization for policy-making project recommendations take-on by key stakeholders (projects, SMEs, decision-makers, technicians, researchers, etc.). This innovative community made possible to strengthen the working ties between MED Blue Growth projects and transnational key stakeholders, to support Mediterranean clusters and favour the dissemination and transferability of several MED Blue Growth projects’ results.
- Some of the project partners participated in these projects and thematic projects (BLUEFASMA) which will ensure synergies among what has already been done showcasing the crucial role of cooperation among Horizontal projects as seen through specific activities such as the Regional guidelines for the sustainability of cruise and recreational boating sectors in the Mediterranean, technical factsheets and other capitalisation activities.
- Partners such as MedCities and Plan Bleu have been members of the Horizontal and modular projects and they will contribute to keep working together.
- (EN), -- (FR), - (FR), Interreg Med Horizontal project: Sustainable tourism Community (STC) (EN) | -- (FR), The Mediterranean Sustainable Tourism community Interreg MED horizontal project (2019-2022) is the new phase of the BlueTourMed project (2016-2019) and it relied on 30 thematic projects involving more than 200 organisations (mainly public authorities, universities, NGOs and international organisations) active in 13 European countries to promote sustainable tourism by capitalizing on tools and good practices developed by its projects.
- The main goal of the second phase was to mainstream the results of the projects into European, national, regional and local policies, also having in mind how they can contribute to a green and digital post-Covid tourism recovery and the EU Green Deal challenges by:
- Enhancing attractiveness and tourism offer with alternatives to mass tourism;
- Addressing tourism pressures by reducing the impact of tourism; and
- Strengthening planning and management practices by measuring sustainability.
- The mediterranean region is one of the most visited regions worldwide and this economic activity as a cross-cutting one has been producing negative externalities in the Region. Some partners of the partnership have been involved in both phases of the STC and its thematic projects (DESTIMED, Destimed Plus, Incircle) which will ensure synergies with what has already been done.
- Partners such as MedCities, IUCN Med, Region of Sardinia, region of Crete and Plan Bleu have been members of the Horizontal and modular projects and they will ensure to build on the main achievements on sustainable tourism.
- Furthermore, through the last call on governance, Plan Bleu is a member of the newly approved Thematic Community Project and it will ensure potential synergies among both projects.
- (EN), - (FR), BlueMissionMed
- Coordination and Support Action
- Horizon Europe project
- (EN) | The project will set up and implement a MED Lighthouse for the development and deployment of transformative innovative solutions in all forms (technological, social, business, governance) across the MED basin, to ensure fast progress towards the achievement of the EU Mission “Restore our Oceans and Waters by 2030” objectives with important societal impact. The project’s pathway to the implementation builds on, connect and structure existing initiatives and activities to disseminate and upscale solutions and mobilise relevant actors with the aim of preventing and reducing pollution of our ocean, seas and waters.
- MedCities is partner to this Coordination and Support Action of high relevance to the Nature Mission, especially regarding integrated policy approaches to water management and linking land and sea policies. We will work to integrate its activities within our dialogues and capitalisation activities where appropriate.
- (EN), -- (FR), ENhancing Socio-Ecological RESilience in Mediterranean coastal areas (ENSERES) (EN), - (FR) | ENSERES is an ENI CBC MED project Capitalisation project .ENSERES is seeking transformative changes with an integrated solution approach at transboundary level, both in and outside areas under legal protection, and involving public authorities, socio-economic actors and civil society organisations engaged in natural and urban areas. Specifically, it focuses on transferring and mainstreaming ecosystem-based management tools to implement integrated coastal zone management (ICZM) processes in multi-level conservation and territorial practices. MedCities leads WP3 on Transfer, replication and upscaling. These activities focus on increasing the capacity of local and regional stakeholders, and support intervention models in pilot sites as examples of transformative actions. They are delivered through transfer and re-use of robust ICZM and ecosystem-based management tools and best practices in the project territories, capitalising on well-developed results of past and ongoing ENI’s and Interreg Med initiatives.
- ENSERES will build the capacities to set common goals for public authorities and natural resource users, boost sustainable financing mechanisms for co-management, and act for the operative territorialisation of actions at various scales. Based on transferring activities at pilot site level in the Gulf of Gades (Tunisia) and the area of the Tyre Coast Nature Reserve (Libanon), outreach activities will ensure the dissemination of approaches at Pan-Mediterranean level through existing networks such as the Mediterranean Protected Areas Network (MedPAN), the Network of Mediterranean coastal cities (MedCities) and the network of managers of Specially Protected Areas of Mediterranean Importance (SPAMI network).
- MedCities is partner of this project and will ensure the collaboration among both projects
- (EN), -- (FR), Destimed Plus
- (EN), - (FR) | -- (FR), DestiMED PLUS project is a modular tourism project aiming at improving the integration of conservation and tourism policies at the scale of Regions. The project developed a questionnaire of assessment of policy integration for regions as well as a database of best practices, that will be used as a reference and starting point in this proposal. The project also established a Mediterranean Ecotourism consortium of policy makers for tourism and conservation, that will be considered as reference process for the working groups establishment
- IUCN Med, Region of Sardinia, Region of Crete were members of this project and would ensure to capitalise on the main results and established networks
- (EN), Coastal Protection Strategy for the Balearic Islands Considering the effects of climate change, from the Structural Reform Support Programme of the European Union (EN), - (FR) | The project sought to understand and characterise coastal erosion challenges under an integrated approach, regarding all aspects of the coastal zone, and under the modern approach for Disaster Risk Management. It also proposes a planning instrument for coastal protection (the Strategy) including the viable alternatives addressing all phases of the Disaster Risk Management cycle (including prevention and recovery) and the corresponding implementation plan.
- MedCities led the Communication and stakeholders engagement work package with special focus on engaging local governments in the revision of the diagnosis and the prioritisation of measures. A similar project, also participated by MedCities, developed the Strategies for Coastal Protection for the provinces of Cádiz, Málaga and Almeria. MedCities will build on these experiences in support of Dialogue4Nature aims
- (EN), - (FR), Ocean Cities Network (OC-NET), Endorsed Ocean Decade Action. (EN), - (FR) | Ocean Cities (OC-NET) is a network of marine cities committed with sustainability, permeability and regeneration of natural marine environments, for and with its population. OC‐NET is an interdisciplinary and bottom‐up transformative program, which will change how coastal cities and their inhabitants perceive, interact and evolve with the ocean, from the surrounding waters to the single global ocean. OC-NET relies on the city council of Barcelona and two city networks, MedCities and C40, among its founding partners, together with world wide research institutions,
- (EN), - (FR), WaterLANDS, European Horizon 2020 Green Deal (EN), - (FR) | - (FR), WaterLANDS (Water-based solutions for carbon storage, people and wilderness) is a 32-partner project funded by the European Horizon 2020 Green Deal programme. WaterLANDS will restore wetlands decimated by human activity in Europe and lay the foundations for upscaling wetland restoration and conservation over much larger areas. The project officially started on 1 December 2021 and will contribute to the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration (2021-2030).
- WaterLANDS aims to promote the expansion of wetland restoration. Socio-economic factors, insufficient stakeholder engagement, lack of government commitment, lack of funding and inadequate knowledge exchange on restoration methods have all been identified as barriers to effective wetland restoration.. WaterLANDS will seek to overcome these obstacles by investigating the combination of factors that will enable wetland restoration to spread across Europe.
- Plan Bleu is mainly involved in governance activities aiming at identifying the political and governance conditions that contribute to the success of the process of development and implementation of ecological restoration of wetlands and associated ecosystems. Plan Bleu will also contribute to communication activities, as well as to restoration advocacy with various stakeholders at the Mediterranean, European and international levels
- (EN), - (FR), REST-COAST (EN) | - (FR), REST-COAST will develop the large-scale river-coast connectivity and increase the nearshore accommodation space for the resilient delivery of coastal ecosystem services (ESS). The selected ESS (risk reduction, environmental quality and fish provisioning) touch urgent coastal problems such as the erosion/flooding during recent storms or the accelerating coastal habitat degradation that seriously affects fisheries and aquaculture. By enhancing these ESS under present and future climates at 9 Pilots that represent the main EU regional seas (Baltic, Black, North, Atlantic and Mediterranean) we shall increase the commitment of citizens, stakeholders and policy makers for a long-term maintenance of restoration. Such commitment will go together with a transformation of governance and financial structures, supported by evidence-based results on restoration benefits for the welfare of coastal societies and assets. This transformation will build upon the results from hands-on restoration at the Pilots, steered by the multidisciplinary project advances.
- IUCN MED will ensure synergies with this project.
- (EN), - (FR), European Topic centre on Climate change adaptation (ETC- CA) (EN) | - (FR), The European Topic Centre on Climate change adaptation and LULUCF (ETC CA) is a Consortium of 16 European organisations, including Plan Bleu,with expertise in the topic area of climate change adaptation and Land Use, Land-Use Change and Forestry (LULUCF) working in partnership with the European Environment Agency under a framework partnership agreement for the period 2022-2026.
- As an integral part of Eionet the mission of the ETC CA is to assist the EEA in informing and supporting the EU policy processes and their developments by providing relevant information, improving the existing knowledge base and to assist member countries in the area of climate change adaptation. Ultimately, the ETC CA work also follows and feeds into the cycle of large assessments every 5 years on the “European State of the Environment and Outlook Report” – SOER (2020 being the most recent; 2025 being the upcoming one).
- Plan Bleu will ensure synergies among both projects.
- (EN), BLUEFasma (EN), - (FR) | BLUEFasma Interreg Med modular project belonging to the Blue Growth Community seeks to increase innovation capacity to enhance circular economy performance in the fishing and aquaculture sector in the Mediterranean area. Its overall objective is to empower SMEs’ innovation capacity, maritime clusters and networks, Public Authorities, and other key actors to boost blue circular economy growth in the Mediterranean insular, island, and coastal areas.
- BLUEFasma has provided a number of outputs as:
- A set of tools (Circular economy self-assessment tool; e-network; a circular economy knowledge base
- The BLUEFasma living labs, that apply a methodology based on experiential learning, which involves the participants in the procedures. The knowledge generated by the project helps the participants improve their circularity, save money and add value to their products by implementing good practices.
- Policy Outputs: Bluefasma developed a White paper and a set of Policy Recommendations to enhance circularity in the Fisheries and aquaculture sector.
- The BLUEfasma project is an initiative of 14 European partners launched in Catalonia by MedCities and the Agency for Economic Development of the Barcelona Metropolitan Area (AMB), with the support of the Fishermen’s Guild of Catalonia among other actors. MedCities has led the Capitalisation Work Package and, especially, the delivery of the Policy Recommendations and will ensure to consider the main achievements.
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Total budget/expenditure: EUR 4 000 000.00
Total EU funding (amount): EUR 3 200 000.00
Total EU funding (co-financing rate): 80.00%
Co-financing sources:
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RCO 001 - Enterprises supported (of which: micro, small, medium, large), Measurement unit:
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RCO 116 - Jointly developed solutions, Measurement unit:
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RCO 087 - Organisations cooperating across borders, Measurement unit:
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RCR 104 - Solutions taken up or up-scaled by organisations, Measurement unit:
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RCR90N Long-term cross-border innovation networks, Measurement unit: Number of networks
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PSR 1: Organisations with increased institutional capacity due to their participation in cooperation activities across borders, Measurement unit: Organisations
Project part of European Union Macro-Regional or Sea Basin Strategy: EUSALP
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Project part of European Union Macro-Regional or Sea Basin Strategy: EUSAIR
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Information regarding the data in keep.eu on the programme financing this project
Financing programme
2021 - 2027 Interreg VI-B EURO Mediterranean (EURO MED)
Last month that data in keep.eu was retrieved from the Programme's website or received from the Programme
2025-05-27
No. of projects in keep.eu / Total no. of projects (% of projects in keep.eu)
64 / 64 (100%)
No. of project partnerships in keep.eu / Total no. of project partnerships (% of project partnerships in keep.eu)
608 / 608 (100%)
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