EU-INTERREG V-B Mediterranean - 2014-2020

Instrument/Program level: 
European
Name of the instrument/Program: 
INTERREG V-B
Instrument/Program application areas: 
Mediterranean
Instrument/Program eligible areas: 
Catalonia
Valencia
Balearic Islands
Aragon
Andalusia
Ceuta
Melilla
Murcia
Rhône-Alpes
Corsica
Languedoc-Roussillon
Midi-Pyrénées
Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur
Adriatic Croatia
Continental Croatia
Lazio
Marche
Tuscany
Umbria
Sardinia
Sicily
Emilia-Romagna
Friuli-Venezia Giulia
Veneto
Liguria
Lombardy
Piedmont
Valle d’Aosta
Abruzzo
Basilicata
Calabria
Campania
Molise
Apulia
MALTA
Alentejo
The Algarve
Lisbon
East Slovenia
West Slovenia
Extra-Regio NUTS 2
Attica
North Aegean
Crete
South Aegean
East Macedonia, Thrace
West Macedonia
Epirus
Central Macedonia
Western Greece
Thessaly
Ionian Islands
Peloponnese
Continental Greece
Managing authority: 

Region Provence Alpes Cote d'Azur

Objectives: 

1. To increase transnational activity of innovative clusters and networks of key sectors of the MED area; 
2. To raise capacity for better management of energy in public buildings at transnational level; 
3. To raise capacity for better management of energy in public buildings at transnational level; 
4. To increase the share of renewable local energy sources in energy mix strategies and plans in specific MED territories; 
5. To increase the share of renewable local energy sources in energy mix strategies and plans in specific MED territories; 
6. To increase capacity to use existing low carbon transport systems and multimodal connections among them; 
7. To enhance the development of a sustainable and responsible coastal and maritime tourism in the MED area; 
8. To maintain biodiversity and natural ecosystems through strengthening the management and networking of protected areas; 
9. To maintain biodiversity and natural ecosystems through strengthening the management and networking of protected areas; 
10. To support the process of strengthening and developing multilateral coordination frameworks in the Mediterranean for joint responses to common challenges.

Eligible thematics in line with ERC sectors: 
Life Sciences
Physical Sciences and Engineering
Social Sciences and Humanities
Eligible thematics in line with S3: 
Agrifood processing
Blue growth
City development
Climate Change Mitigation
Cultural & creative industries
Entrepreneurship & Growth of young companies
Environmental technologies, renewable energies & resource efficiency
ICTs (Digital technologies & user-friendly systems)
Life Science & Biotechnology
Logistic
Maritime technologies
Sustainable innovation & infrastructure
Sustainable Living & mobility
Action typologies: 
Strengthening innovation processes and investment of CB clusters and networks, enterprises, other institutions in order to develop new or improved products, services and pilot investments
Training session and workshops
Cross-border and cross sector mobility of researchers
Supporting SMEs' cross-border networks
Best practices exchange (Interregional Cooperation)
Exchange of experience (e.g. seminars, studies and publications)
Sharing of good practices
Development of applications for mobile devices
ICTs for the communications
Development of collaborative management approaches
Best-practice, demonstration, pilot or information, awareness and dissemination projects
Development of pilot programs & projects
Technological and commercial feasibility studies
Decision support tools for innovation
Other eligible actions: 

- Transforming pilot initiatives in higher scale projects;

- Reformulating, complementing and improving results, activities and outputs already obtained in precedent cooperation projects approved by the Med Programme and/or other related programmes.

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
Large enterprise, enterprise excluding SME
SME
Business support organisation
EGTC
International organization, EEIG under national law
Status of the eligible institutions: 
Public
Private
Public equivalent body
Program contribution maximum: 
85%
Program Budget: 
219 283 379,00 €
Project budget maximum: 
1 400 000,00 €
Project duration maximum: 
36 months