EU-INTERREG V-A Austria - Germany / Bavaria (Bayern - Österreich) - 2014-2020

Instrument/Program level: 
European
Name of the instrument/Program: 
INTERREG V-A
Instrument/Program application areas: 
Austria - Germany / Bavaria (Bayern - Österreich)
Instrument/Program eligible areas: 
Deggendorf
Dingolfing-Landau
Freyung-Grafenau
Landshut, Kreisfreie Stadt
Landshut, Landkreis
Passau, Kreisfreie Stadt
Passau, Landkreis
Regen
Rottal-Inn
Altötting
Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen
Berchtesgadener Land
Garmisch-Partenkirchen
Miesbach
Mühldorf a. Inn
Rosenheim, Kreisfreie Stadt
Rosenheim, Landkreis
Traunstein
Weilheim-Schongau
Kaufbeuren, Kreisfreie Stadt
Kempten (Allgäu), Kreisfreie Stadt
Lindau (Bodensee)
Memmingen, Kreisfreie Stadt
Oberallgäu
Ostallgäu
Innviertel
Linz-Wels
Mühlviertel
Steyr-Kirchdorf
Traunviertel
Lungau
Pinzgau-Pongau
Salzburg und Umgebung
Außerfern
Innsbruck
Osttirol
Tiroler Oberland
Tiroler Unterland
Bludenz-Bregenzer Wald
Rheintal-Bodenseegebiet
Managing authority: 

Oberösterreichischen Landes Division of Regional Planning, Group of Spatial Planning

Objectives: 

1. Establishment and development of joint cross border research, development and innovation capacities in the higher education sector and centers of excellence; 
2. Increase in business related cross-border research, development and innovation activities through the strengthening of appropriate support structures; 
3. Natural and cultural heritage valorization in the context of sustainable cross border tourism development; 
4. Enhancement of biodiversity through cross border management structures of protected areas, biodiversity partnerships, species and soil conservation projects; 
5. Habitat and biodiversity protection through the establishment and development of green infrastructure; 
6. Strengthening cross border structures to support regional governance and an instrument to promote cross border initiatives and projects involving the civil society; 
7. Building and strengthening long-term and structural cross border cooperation for greater social and economic integration as well as the lowering of administrative and legislative barriers

Eligible thematics in line with ERC sectors: 
Earth System Science
Products and Processes Engineering
Systems and Communication Engineering
Cultures and Cultural Production
Environment, Space and Population
Eligible thematics in line with S3: 
Climate Change Mitigation
Entrepreneurship & Growth of young companies
Environmental technologies, renewable energies & resource efficiency
Green & Clean energy & technologies
ICTs (Digital technologies & user-friendly systems)
Nature & Biodiversity
Sustainable Living & mobility
Action typologies: 
Cross-border and cross sector mobility of researchers
Promoting conditions able to facilitate cross-border collaboration between companies
Actions to improve sustainable linkages among actors of the innovation systems for strengthening regional innovation capacity
Best practices exchange (Interregional Cooperation)
Beneficiaries: 
Local public authority
Regional public authority
National public authority
Sectorial agency
Infrastructure and (public) service provider
Interest groups including NGOs
Higher education and research
Education/training centre and school
Start up
Large enterprise, enterprise excluding SME
SME
Business support organisation
General public
Status of the eligible institutions: 
Public
Private
Public equivalent body
Program contribution minimum: 
75%
Program contribution maximum: 
85%
Program Budget: 
51 209 381,00 €