Mid-term review #CohesionPolicy 2021-2027 shows how EU investments continue to support innovation, clean energy, digitalisation and regional competitiveness. With €392 bn, Cohesion Policy remains the EU’s main investment policy helping regions respond to new challenges ec.europa.eu/regional_pol...
The mid-term review shows that #CohesionPolicy can adapt to Europe’s evolving challenges – and do so in record time. The reallocation of €34.6 are real resources, concrete and immediately available to support our priorities ec.europa.eu/commission/p... #SmartCities #ActOnClimate #PublicTransport
🎤 Interreg projects, it’s your time to tell your story.
The Interreg Slam is a pitch competition where cooperation stories go head to head across Europe.
📅 Kick off: 20 April
🗓️ Trainings: May
Are you in? 🚀
👉 https://bit.ly/interreg-slam-kick-off
#InterregSlam #CohesionPolicy #Interreg
🚀 The wait is over! Interreg Slam is back.
The new space on interreg.eu is live: discover what the Slam is, how to participate, and what’s coming on 20 April.
Got a story to tell? This is your moment 🎤
👉 https://bit.ly/interreg-slam-kick-off
#InterregSlam #Interreg #CohesionPolicy
Got an EU-funded project that truly made a difference? This is your moment.
The 2026 edition of the REGIOSTARS Awards is officially open.
📅 Applications are now open👇
#CohesionPolicy #REGIOSTARS #EUfunding eu.smh.re/0drM
CEMR Spokesperson Arjen Gerritsen at the EU Parliament on the future of #CohesionPolicy under the next #MFF.
Key messages:
• NRPPs need mandatory regional chapters.
• ITIs & CLLD work — 30% of non-ringfenced funds should use them.
Read more:
ccre-cemr.org/wp-content/u...
💡𝗜𝗻𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗼𝘀 𝟯,𝟮𝗠€ 𝗲𝗻 𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗼𝘃𝗮𝗿 𝗹𝗮 𝗰𝗹𝗶𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘇𝗮𝗰𝗶𝗼́𝗻
✅Sustituimos las calderas de gasóleo por sistemas renovables en 7 centros de Atención Primaria de Osakidetza, cofinanciado con fondos FEDER
💚𝗠𝗮́𝘀 𝗲𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗶𝗮, 𝗺𝗲𝗻𝗼𝘀 𝗲𝗺𝗶𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗲𝘀. El futuro es verde.
#FederEuskadi #EgefEuskadi #CohesionPolicy #Osakidetza
Got an EU-funded project that truly made a difference? This is your moment. The 2026 edition of the #REGIOSTARS Awards is open. They spotlight the most impactful projects supported by EU #CohesionPolicy — projects that transformed regions and strengthened communities ec.europa.eu/regional_pol...
🧵[4/4] It is unclear how #CohesionPolicy evaluations contributed in shaping next #MFF given the huge changes foreseen. One challenge for evaluation and policy making will be to compare results across periods, with complete different reporting and data, as we move towards #Performance based approach.
🧵[1/4] Back from #CohesionEval2026.
#CohesionPolicy is delivering on its treaty objectives :
✅99% of for 2014-2020 period have been used
📈 2021-2027 period implementation is now on good track
📈 Biggest GDP boost is observed in less developed regions #CohesionPolicy #EUfunds
what lessons learned?👇
#EU #CohesionPolicy hasn’t failed. It has been mis-sold. Framed as compensation rather than #investment, it lost legitimacy, despite evidence of #growth and spillovers.
My new LSEPPR paper shows that a policy of development dressed up as charity struggles.
doi.org/10.31389/lse...
By offering shared workspaces, business support and access to networks, the hub is creating new possibilities for entrepreneurs, freelancers and small companies outside major cities.
#CohesionPolicy #RuralDevelopment #Innovation #LocalJobs eu.smh.re/0dX0
🏙️ Which city will host #CitiesForum 2027?
We invites cities to apply to host the EU’s flagship event on the urban dimension of #CohesionPolicy. A unique chance to showcase your city and connect with Europe’s urban leaders.
📅 Apply by 17 Feb
📝 lnkd.in/eVE3ukKi
🏙️ Cities in North-West Europe: take note!
Our neighbours at the European Urban Initiative have opened a call for host cities for the #CitiesForum 2027, the EU’s flagship event on urban development.
🗓 Deadline: 17 February
👉 www.urban-initiative.eu/cities-forum...
#CohesionPolicy
A socially fair ETS2 is possible—but only if investment support comes first.
#ETS2 #CohesionPolicy #SocialClimateFund #Housing #JustTransition #EUClimate
5/5
Developed by the Technical University of Crete, the COMPOSE toolbox is a free, online platform designed to help municipalities with limited staff or resources plan and implement renewable energy solutions. #ClimateAction #EnergyTransition #LocalSolutions #CohesionPolicy eu.smh.re/0dR5
✅ #Euskadi cumple la senda financiera de los #Fondosestructuraleseuropeos 2021-2027. Cada euro certificado es una inversión en nuestro futuro.
#FederEuskadi #EgefEuskadi #FseEuskadi #EgfEuskadi #CohesionPolicy #FondosEstructurales #EgituraFuntsak
Sometimes, climate resilience starts under our feet.#ClimateAdaptation #CohesionPolicy #Urbanflooding eu.smh.re/0dI6
Across Europe and beyond, cooperation turns ideas into real impact 🌍 Different places, different challenges - one message: regions achieve more together 🤝
Discover all these #Interreg projects: https://bit.ly/Interreg-real-stories
#CohesionPolicy #GreenerEuropewithInterreg #CircularEconomy
Christoph Schnaudigel, CEMR Co-President, reminded delegates that:
👉 #CohesionPolicy is part of the EU Treaties and essential to the Single Market
👉 #RRF showed the risks of excluding local governments.
“LRGs are not the periphery but the centre"
#CEMRLeadersSummit
Kadri Uustal from DGRegio:
“The EU population will start declining next year. Demographic change is not a future issue — cities are shrinking today. #Cohesionpolicy can help regions break the vicious cycle by using good data, targeted investment”
#CEMRLeadersSummit
From Mediterranean flash floods to Indian Ocean cyclones, climate risks hit territories differently.
Through LOCALL4FLOOD and PIROI Centre, #Interreg helps regions prepare, coordinate and build stronger resilience together 🌍
#CohesionPolicy #GreenerEuropewithInterreg
EGEF 2021-2027 programa sustatuz, Bizkaiko Foru Aldundiak mugikortasun iraunkorrarekiko konpromisoa indartu du, bizikleta-azpiegituren sare handi baten bidez, lurraldea modu eraginkorrean, irisgarrian eta ingurumena errespetatuz lotuko duena.
#FEDEREuskadi #EGEFEuskadi #CohesionPolicy
#EURomaNetwork meets in Turin 26-27 November for a case study on the overcoming of segregated settlements in Collegno, and to discuss the latest Relevant EU development for Roma equality and inclusion, European #CohesionPolicy and #EUFunds & more in relation to #RomaEU equality.
EGEF 2021-2027 programa sustatuz, Bizkaiko Foru Aldundiak mugikortasun iraunkorrarekiko konpromisoa indartu du, bizikleta-azpiegituren sare handi baten bidez, lurraldea modu eraginkorrean, irisgarrian eta ingurumena errespetatuz lotuko duena.
#FEDEREuskadi #EGEFEuskadi #CohesionPolicy
URA planifica, gestiona y ejecuta las intervenciones necesarias para reducir el riesgo de inundaciones en la CAE en colaboración con el Fondo FEDER, para avanzar hacia un territorio más seguro, sostenible y preparado para el futuro.
#FEDEREuskadi #EGEFEuskadi #CohesionPolicy
➡️Read the full position paper here: smeunited.eu/publications...
@ec.europa.eu
#MFF #EUpolicy #CohesionPolicy #Investment #Digitalisation #SMEs
✨ New IWH #DiscussionPaper ✨
📰 A Helping Hand, but not a Lift. #EU #CohesionPolicy and #RegionalDevelopment 🇪🇺
🎓 By IWH economists Eva Dettmann and Sarah Fritz
👉 Read the full paper here #freeAccess: www.iwh-halle.de/en/publicati...
#Economics #locationpolicy
If they reach a deal ➡️ multi-level governance maintained & renewed trust.
If not ➡️ turbulence ahead for cohesion + institutional
balance.
Which path seems more likely to you? #EU #MFF #Politics #CohesionPolicy
Uraren Euskal Agentziak (URA) EAEn uholde-arriskua murrizteko beharrezkoak diren esku-hartzeak planifikatu, kudeatu eta gauzatzen ditu, EGEF Funtsarekin lankidetzan, lurralde seguruago, jasangarriago eta etorkizunerako prestatuago baterantz aurrera egiteko.
#FEDEREuskadi #EGEFEuskadi #CohesionPolicy
