The Interreg Sudoe Programme opened its first call for proposals to the five priority axis, with a total € 40.2 million ERDF budget, as it follows:

REESEARCH AND INNOVATION	COMPETITIVENESS OF SMEs	LOW-CARBON ECONOMY	COMBATING CLIMATE CHANGE	ENVIRONMENT  RESOURCE EFFICIENCY
15.8 million	6 million	4.7 million	5.1 million	8.6 million

You can download here the full text of the first call’s announcement in French, Portuguese and Spanish.

Step 1

The first call for proposals launched Step 1 from the 21^st of September to the 6^th of November 2015. After the closure of Step 1, the Joint Secretariat received 496 project proposals. You can read here some statistics about the submitted projects. The list of shortlisted projects was published on the 24^th of February 2016, after the decision of the Steering Committee, that met on the 23^th of February in Lisbon (Portugal).

Step 2

Step 2 of the first call for proposals was open from the 29^th of February to the 29^th of April 2016. The Joint Secretariat published a set of frequently asked questions to answer the most common questions of the potential beneficiaries regarding Step 2. The Joint Secretariat organised on 16-17/03/2016 a technical meeting on step 2. After the meeting, the Joint Secretariat prepared a document that includes further information. You can download this document in French, Portuguese and Spanish.

Approval of the projects

The final approval of the projects was notified after the decision of the Steering Committee, that met on the 30^th of June 2016 in Porto (Portugal).  The ceremony of ERDF grants signing and the seminar on project management took place on the 26^th and 27^thSeptember, 2016, in Santander (Spain). 

 

 

 

 

 

All the projects of this call have now ended. You canfind their results here.