Project results

Get an insight into the policy changes and results achieved by our interregional cooperation projects all across Europe from 2014-2020.

Our 258 projects are working hard to bring policy changes to their regions. We've described a few so that you can go deeper into each story and find out what they achieved and how they achieved it.

Our projects have closed their activities. By the end, they had:

• Held over 16,000 policy-learning events;
• Identified over 5,800 good practices - close to 3,200 were validated for the good practice database by our experts;
• Increased the professional capacity of over 22,400 people engaged with them thanks to their activities;
• And had developed 1,701 action plans for their regions.

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During the 2014-2020 programme, our projects influenced 1,290 policy instruments, including 633 Structural Funds operational programmes.

We estimate that the financial impact of this influence is 1.474 billion EUR in total (1.186 billion EUR from Structural Funds). That’s much more than our own budget (359 MEUR). This funding has been allocated in the regions to finance activities inspired by the projects' exchange of experience.

These results also show that Interreg Europe directly contributes to a more efficient implementation of the Cohesion Policy. Why? Because investment in solutions tried and tested in other corners of Europe saves the time of regional policymakers. It makes the use of the financial resources available in their regions more efficient.

Download a list of policy changes

Close to 90% of NUTS 2 regions from all eligible countries are involved in our cooperation projects. Download the following maps to see how many partners come from your region and our full list of projects.