In the context of Interreg Europe, a good practice is defined as an initiative related to regional development policy which has proved to be successful in a region and which is of potential interest to other regions.

‘Proved successful’ is when the good practice has already provided tangible and measurable results in achieving a specific objective.

Since Interreg Europe is dedicated to improving regional development policies, a good practice is usually related to public intervention. In principle, a private initiative is not considered as a good practice', unless if there is evidence that it has already inspired public policies.

Although the Interreg Europe programme primarily refers to good practices, valuable learning also derives from unsuccessful practices. Lessons learnt from unsuccessful experiences can also be taken into consideration in the exchange of experience process.

Examples of good practices can be found in the good practice database on the programme website.

For more info, watch the video (1:17 - 2:11).

You can submit a good practice by logging into your account on the Interreg Europe website.

In the connection menu on the top right, you will find a section called 'Good practices'.

You will be directed to your good practice's dashboard from which you can submit your good practice.

In addition, you can also submit a good practice from the good practice database. Right below the search bar, you will find the section to submit your good practice.

1. You submit a good practice related to your Interreg Europe project. Your project web admin is notified and can request additional information, and approve or decline your good practice. If the project web admin approves your good practice, it is published on your project website.

2. If approved by the project web admin, the good practice will go to a dedicated Policy Officer that will evaluate it for the project indicator. The Policy officer can also request additional information, and approve or decline your good practice.

3. If approved by the Policy Officer, the good practice goes to the Thematic Experts of the Interreg Europe Policy Learning Platform. They will evaluate it based on relevance to other regions and replicability. The Thematic Expert can ask you for additional information, approve or decline the good practice. If approved, your good practice is published in the good practice's database.

You can also submit a good practice if you are not part of an Interreg Europe project. Your good practice will then directly go to our Thematic Experts for validation. They will evaluate it based on relevance to other regions and replicability. The Thematic Expert can ask you for additional information, approve or decline the good practice. If approved, your good practice is published in the good practice's database.

The good practice validation involves different people, depending on whether you submit your good practices related to an Interreg Europe project or not. If you are submitting a good practice related to an Interreg Europe project, the following people are involved:

1. Community members: The author of the good practice

2. Web admin: The person(s) responsible for the first step of validation.

3. Policy Officers: The person responsible for validating the good practice for the project output indicator.

4. Thematic Experts: The persons responsible for validating the good practice for the good practice database.

If you are submitting a good practice not related to an Interreg Europe project, the following people are involved:

1. Community members: The author of the good practice

2. Thematic Experts: The persons responsible for validating the good practice for the good practice database.

Yes, you can download the template for the good practice form.

A good practice should be linked to a project when it has been identified as part of the interregional learning process during an Interreg Europe project (i.e. to be reported under the indicator “number of good practices identified” in the progress report).

If you are involved in more than one project, please choose the project for which you are submitting this good practice.

If you are submitting a good practice that has not been identified during an Interreg Europe project’s exchange of experience process, answer 'NO' in the good practice submission form to the question ‘Are you involved in an Interreg Europe project?’.

All project partners with an Interreg Europe community account can submit a good practice for publication.

Your project’s web administrator's role is to check the overall quality of the information on good practices and validate its link to the project. When an author submits a good practice linked to an Interreg Europe project, their project web administrators receives a notification email. After login to the web admin account and under the good practices tab, you will find a list of good practices related to your project.

Please note that this tab is on your personal dashboard, not on your project editing dashboard. Click on the title of the good practice with the status 'Waiting for approval'.

Read the good practice description carefully and at the very end you will find three buttons:

1. If you find the good practice complete and linked to your project and you want it to be published on your project website, click OK. It confirms both its quality and the link to the project. The good practice is then published on the project website under good practices and sent for further validation to the Interreg Europe team. If further validated, the good practice will appear also in the programme good practice database. The status of the good practice changes to 'Published on project website and under validation by Policy Officer.'

2. If you find that the good practice does not come from your project, decline the good practice by clicking NO.

3. If you see that the good practice is linked to your project, but some information is missing, you can send the good practice for further improvement to the author by clicking MAYBE.

The good practice you submit to the Interreg Europe website goes through a validation process.

The good practice linked to a project will be reviewed by the project web administrator that is appointed at the start of the project.

If the project web administrator approves the good practice, it is published on your project website and will be sent to the Policy Officer of the Joint Secreatriat for further validation.