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Our goals yes yes

We support strong partnerships to address core societal challenges and innovate the future.

Our vision is to create a vibrant North Sea Region by helping innovators get their game-changing ideas off the ground.

To deliver our vision, we provide funding and advice enabling people to work together throughout the region.

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Our goals

Our member countries have set out funding priorities reflecting pressing issues that do not respect borders. Transnational cooperation is therefore well suited to deliver strong solutions.

We aim to provide funding that will contribute strongly towards:

- Building smart and robust economies.
- Fast-tracking the green transition.
- Fostering climate resilience, a clean environment, and a rich biodiversity.
- Improving cooperation governance.

Our funding contributes to putting the EU Green Deal and other core European policies into practice.

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Cooperation driving a better future

We promote our goals through targeted funding of excellent ideas, executed by strong partnerships.

In each project, partners from several countries join forces to tackle some of the toughest challenges facing the North Sea Region. The partners often come from different sectors. For example, government agencies may work together with companies, universities, and civil society organisations.

This set-up enables the teams to find viable solutions to complex shared challenges. And it provides a perfect test bed for piloting new ideas in a variety of real-life settings across the North Sea Region.

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Branching out

Our projects not only come up with innovative solutions. They also inform policy, build new networks, and deliver proof of concept.

Most partnerships are unlikely to happen without Interreg support. But once set up, many networks and partnerships continue working together. In some cases, Interreg North Sea projects have even given rise to permanent European or global organisations.

These are some of the main reasons why our project often have impacts far beyond their own scope and duration.

Top image by Shane Woodford. Scene from an AVATAR project trial in Ghent, Flanders.

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