19 projects foreseen to be funded by altogether 14 million euros! The first call for project applications of the Central Baltic INTERREG IV A Programme 2007-2013 was open from June 18 to September 18, 2008 and brought to life altogether 50 interesting cross-border cooperation project applications. At the Programmes’ recent three Steering Committee meetings in December 8-16, the first funding decisions were made and 19 projects will receive a positive reply from the Programme.

In the first call the approved projects and the projects approved under condition are together foreseen to be given 13.6 million euros (14 %) of ERDF funding out of the 96 MEUR available in the whole Programme. The average total budget of an approved project is 900 000 euros of which the ERDF covers on average 80 %.

New application rounds

The Joint Technical Secretariat will continuously hold information seminars and offer individual consultations and would like to encourage all project applicants to make contact with the secretariat in due time in order to plan their project accordingly.

APPROVED projects

The followig project applications are approved according to the application:

- SMEDGE
- VOMARE
- EMEL

16 projects are APPROVED UNDER CONDITION

These project applications are approved but indicated improvements have to be made to the application before project implementation. The JTS communicates the needed changes/additions to the individual projects.

All other projects have been rejected.

More information from the Joint Technical Secretariat:

Central Baltic Programme, Programme Manager Bo Storrank
Southern Finland – Estonia Sub-programme, Programme Manager Merike Niitepõld
Archipelago and Islands Sub-programme, Programme Manager Ann Nedergård