Interreg IVB Programme

achievements

and plans for the future

Ruut LouwersProgramme Director

Ruut LouwersINTERREG North-West Europe Programme Director

measures to

enhance natural

resource

management

measures to

enhance waste

management

technologies to

469 improve water, soil

and air quality

plans to address

climate change

risks

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COHESION POLICY

AND

EU2020

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Negotiations: Commission, Council, Parliament.

Regulations and budget: December 2013

Concentration

Results orientation

Simplifications, but ....

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HOW?

• Cooperate: real project, joint DDDID

• Impact: baseline, change, uptake, result

• Experiment, fail, take well-managed risks

• Communicate: impact on cohesion and

smart, sustainable and inclusive growth.

• Opportunities rather than problems 11

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