Call: Interreg Slovenia - Austria

An analysis of the border region Slovenia-Austria showed specific needs in the fields of research, small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs), environment, resource efficiency and public administration. The conceptual orientation of the CP therefore follows also the ambition of the Europe 2020 strategy with its aims at "smart, sustainable and inclusive growth". Common challenges and intervention needs shared by regions in the programme area are taken into account in order to contribute better to social, economic and territorial cohesion. Consequently, to overcome defined challenges and intervention needs, the programme strategy builds on the following thematic objectives:

• Strengthening research, technological development and innovation
• Preserving and protecting the environment and promoting resource efficiency
• Enhancing institutional capacity of public authorities and stakeholders and efficient public administration

The Subject of this Open Call for Proposals is co-financing of projects corresponding to the following priority axes and related specific objectives:

• Priority Axis 1: Strengthening cross-border Competitiveness, Research and Innovation
• Priority Axis 2: Protecting the Environment and Promoting Resource Efficiency
• Priority Axis 3: Enhancing Institutional Capacity and an Efficient Public Administration

Projects have to apply a result-oriented approach. The coherence of the project intervention logic (i.e. the project specific objectives, activities, outputs and expected results) with the targeted specific objective of the programme needs to be clearly demonstrated.

Under the terms of this Call, a project proposal must refer only to one of the mentioned Priority Axes and one programme specific objective, even in case of a project where some activities might also fall under the other Priority Axis.

Activities have to indicate cross-border impact on the eligible area of this Programme.

In the frame of the CP Interreg SI-AT, eligible applicants are:
Priority axis 1 "Strengthening cross-border Competitiveness, Research and Innovation":

• Private and public business support institutions (incubators, technology parks, science parks,

competence centres, business support centres).

• Enterprises (including SMEs).
• Clusters and networks (including clusters and networks of SMEs).
• Tourism institutions, associations and agencies.
• Research institutions.
• Universities and other academic and higher education institutions as well as technology and business oriented high schools.
• Training and education organisations and institutions.
• Institutions and organisations representing economic and social interests of employees/employers.
• National, local and regional (public) authorities.
• Local/regional institutions, development organisations and networks.

Priority axis 2 "Protecting the Environment and Promoting Resource Efficiency":

• Local, regional and national authorities and organisations (e.g. ministries, local communities, public institutes and services).
• Institutions, organisations, associations and NGOs in the field of nature protection and conservation, environment, spatial planning, public transport, culture and tourism.
• Local, regional and national authorities and organisations (e.g. ministries, local communities, public institutes and services).
• Institutions and organisations in the field of water management, nature protection, environment and risk prevention, spatial planning and other research organizations.
• Associations and NGOs in the field of water, nature protection, bio/geodiversity and environment.

Priority axis 3 "Enhancing Institutional Capacity and an Efficient Public Administration":

• Local and regional public and state administrations.
• Other types of public and private organizations/institutions interested in CB cooperation (e.g. training and educational institutions, institutions and organizations in the field of risk management, health, energy, qualification and labour market, NGOs and associations of socially excluded, associations for children, etc.).

The minimum requirement is to have at least one project partner from Slovenia and one from Austria or an EGTC (European Grouping of Territorial Cooperation) registrated in one of the participating countries, consisting of members from both Member States. 

All partners must have legal, financial and operational capacity to participate in the programme.

Only eligible expenditure can be co-financed from the Programme, whereby the Community cofinancing from the ERDF funds can amount to max. 85% of the total eligible costs, at least 15% is to be ensured from other sources.

The projects eligible for participation in the Programme have to apply for at least 50 000 € of ERDF funds and as recommendation should not apply for more than 3 million € ERDF funds.

The application must be submitted by the Lead Partner solely through the eMS system. The submitted application must contain all the required data and the signed scanned annexes to the application form as stated in the implementation manual for beneficiaries. The application pack is available at the web site www.si-at.eu.

Joint Technical Secretariat (JTS)
Služba Vlade Republike Slovenije za razvoj in evropsko kohezijsko politiko
Urad za evropsko teritorialno sodelovanje in finančne mehanizme
Sektor za upravljanje čezmejnih programov
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SI-2000 Maribor
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E-mail: jts-si-at.svlr@gov.si