5 March 2025
Operations of Strategic Importance selected!
Written by Anna Gałyga
Selection of eight Operations of Strategic Importance and a decision about a new call for small projects have been two of many highlights of the Monitoring Committee meeting held in Helsinki, Finland, on 4-5 March 2025!
8th meeting of the Monitoring Committee in action
Representatives of all Programme area countries met for the eighth time in this programming period. Blagoveska Riiser, a desk officer from the European Commission, also attended the meeting to share first-hand information from Brussels. Chaired by Riitta Vartia from the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment of Finland, the meeting of the Monitoring Committee provided a handful of updates and brought several important decisions.
Messages from the guests
Projects & their great impacts in the focus!
Project platforms are the Programme’s main capitalisation tool. They substantially contribute to the realisation of the Programme objectives, and enable the consolidation of results from projects from Interreg Baltic Sea Region and other funds for a higher impact. These unique chances of creating synergies, boosting knowledge transfer and increasing policy impacts are among the main reasons to label project platforms as Operations of Strategic Importance.
The project platforms will now step into the process of contracting, which would take up to three months. Then the platforms would be ready to start their activities. As Operations of Strategic Importance, expectations towards them as well as their visibility within the Interreg Baltic Sea Region family will be higher when compared to other projects.
A new call for applications is on the horizon
With new project platforms selected, the Programme’s project portfolio has increased to 115 projects. To address unanswered and emerging challenges, a new funding opportunity will open very soon. The Monitoring Committee members have decided to open a new call for applications for small projects already in March: stay tuned for detailed information!
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