Interreg Donauraum (3. Call im Danube Region Programme)

• SO 1.2    Developing skills for smart specialisation, industrial transition and entrepreneurship
  • Thematic focus: AI skills development for delivering products and services with transnational impact in the Danube Region

Priority 2: A greener, low-carbon Danube Region

• SO 2.1    Greening the energy and transport sectors in the Danube Region by enhancing the integration of renewable energy sources
  • Thematic focus: Sustainable renewable energy solutions in the context of energy production, heating and cooling systems, grid load, energy communities, district heating and cooling, storage and peak load reduction with a focus on small and medium municipalities
• SO 2.2   Promoting climate change adaptation and disaster management on transnational level
  • The proposed applications can address each three thematic focuses of SO 2.2, but should target broader territorial scope beyond the urban, municipal level, where transnational level harmonisation and coordination of forecasting, monitoring, preparedness, or reaction is necessary (targeting the Danube River Basin, or its main sub-basins, or the Danube Region, a thematically reasonable, broad and coherent transnational space within, covering the targeted area in its entirety – e.g. a transnational river network, a broad transnational area of DR affected by the same environmental risk with potential transboundary impact) in connection to climate change adaptation and / or climate change induced environmental risks (floods, droughts, wild fires), or accidental pollution of rivers.
• SO 2.3   Sustainable, integrated, transnational water and sediment management in the Danube River Basin
  
  • Proposals can address thematic focus 2 (harmonising management practices between relevant sectors to improve the quality and quantity of transnational water bodies) and focus 3 (transnational coordination of water supply management in transnational river(basin)s). More specifically, the proposed applications should target potential impacts of climate change on transnational water management by harmonising and coordinating policy approaches, management practises between water management, agriculture, environment, navigation and hydropower to improve the quantity (and quality) of water in transnational river systems of DRB with key topics in relation to water scarcity, balanced use of water and coordinated management of low-water periods on transnational rivers of DRB (considering also that flood management is related to SO 2.2).

Priority 3: A more social Danube Region

• SO 3.1   Accessible, inclusive and effective labour markets
  • Thematic focus: Capacity building for employment support bodies (information and data systems; coordination; training e.g. in social economy)
• SO 3.2   Accessible and inclusive quality services in education, training and lifelong learning
  
  • Focus area 1: support Centres of Vocational Excellence (CoVEs) in the Danube Region
  • Focus area 2: In addition to the strategic linked approach above a second direction of SO 3.2 could also include additional approaches at the level of CoVEs

Priority 4: A better cooperation governance in the Danube Region

• SO 4.2   Increased institutional capacities for territorial and macro-regional governance
  • Thematic focus 1: Tackling the accelerated territorial peripheralization/polarization within the Danube Region and promoting balanced territorial and social-economic development, considering main demographic developments and recent technological advances
  • Thematic focus 2: Making local (and regional) public governance systems more resilient to crisis-situations (“crisis proof”)
  • Thematic focus 3: Innovating and optimizing models of effectively involving citizens in transnational, multi-level territorial planning processes and promoting sustainable democracy
  • Thematic focus 4: Strengthening transnational capacities of public local and regional governance systems for ensuring the functioning of Global / European / Danubian Value Chains

An overview of all priorities and specific objectives of the Danube Region Programme can be found here: Interreg Danube Region | What we finance

The Danube Region Programme has allocated 27 300 000,00 EUR for the third call for proposals.

Eligible applicants include public authorities, non-profit organizations, educational institutions, research organizations, and other relevant stakeholders from the Danube region. Each project has to involve at least three financing project partners from three different countries of the programme area.