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Interreg makes
a difference!
Explore how people in the Baltic Sea region have been benefitting
from our projects.
#MadeWithInterreg solutions for
Digitalisation
Across sectors, across topics: there is rarely a topic which has not been developed in the new digital era. How exactly?
What are we doing?
Interreg projects are perfect playgrounds for experimenting with new technologies that can be easily rolled out to other regions. Inspiring others how things can be done more efficiently is one of the biggest added value of Interreg: from improving public services, health, mobility, through boosting the competitiveness of the companies to improving safety at sea. By building digital bridges between cities, regions, and countries, our projects are bringing people of the region together.
Examples of #MadeWithInterreg solutions:
- a digital policy network to speed up transition to a single market
- models of e-services on business registration and e-receipts
- a digital platform to share transport data between logistic service providers and governmental organisations
- a joint registry to store and process data about bone fractures facilitating product development and treatment
- e-health applications, chatbots and games to promote healthy lifestyle
- tools to assess the digitalisation maturity of SMEs
What we’ve achieved so far
Digital solutions are key to boosting innovation and remaining competitive in public and private sectors. In the mid-2000s, Interreg projects investigated how to improve broadband networks to ensure internet access, particularly in rural areas. They started developing e-services in healthcare, education, and local administration. Between 2009 and 2014, projects helped shape new e-government services, making public administrations more accessible to businesses: online business registration, employment services, and building permits. Projects also helped develop teleconsultation in primary healthcare. They introduced self-monitoring for chronic heart failure patients with access to electronic patient records and telemedicine services.
From 2016 to 2021, projects accelerated the Baltic Sea region’s transition to a single digital market. They created a regional digitalisation network, engaging associations, universities, public authorities, and different industry sectors. Projects developed models for cross-border e-services on business registration and e-receipts. They showcased a “know-your-customer” profiling when data was validated only once in a state database, and there was no need to re-validate it again with the help of other sources. Additionally, projects helped SMEs evaluate their level of digital technology adoption and digitalise operational processes. In the healthcare sector, hospitals created a joint registry to store and process data about bone fractures, and medical companies used it to improve their products and offer better treatment possibilities for patients. By replacing paper-based transactions with automated and safe data exchange, projects helped progress toward the digital and real-time economy.
Ongoing projects
The ongoing projects help public authorities make better of use digital technologies, e.g. augmented and extended reality, to deliver public services efficiently and bring people together to learn, interact learn and interact in hybrid spaces. Digital applications lessen stress for children while hospital visits while artificial intelligence helps healthcare professionals in diagnostics and treatment.
In the business context, projects are paving ways for small and medium-sized enterprises to smoothly go into e-commerce, and digitally monitor meeting sustainability standards.
Digitalisation has also been substantially increasing safety at sea while proving new means to efficiently share and harmonise navigational information.
Supporting the EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region
Our projects test new digital technologies that benefit citizens in the Baltic Sea region, contributing to the ambitious goals of the EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region (EUSBSR) to increase prosperity. In collaboration with the coordinators of the EUSBSR policy areas Innovation, Health, and Bioeconomy, our projects help advance the region’s transition to a single market and develop innovative e-services across various sectors.
Explore project solutions in more detail
Solutions stay with the people: listen to our #InterregVoices
©Zuzen Media
The heart our project [DistanceLAB] lies in the transformative power of this new way of working. (...) We have various solutions actually, which unfold through a series of pilots. Digital skills, ecological readiness, and holistic well-being are the focus of some of them. The fusion of technology and human-centric approaches come to the forefront.
Leena Toivanen
Centria University of Applied Science
DistanceLAB
©City of Tartu
With the EmpInno project, we have developed a statistics tool in collaboration with Estonian citizens and entrepreneurs. Now local policymakers have a better overview of the local business ecosystem, and also its development trends.
Finally, the Baltic Game Industry project helped us to create a gaming and film industry incubation programme in Tartu. The programme is still running even though the project is over.
Raimond Tamm
Deputy Mayor of Tartu, Estonia
©Michael Biel
The Baltic Sea region is a games hotspot in Europe. BSG GO! supports players in Berlin's game industry in entering into international cooperations and thus strengthening entrepreneurial resilience.
Michael Biel
Senate Department of Economic Affairs, Energy and Public Enterprises of Berlin
