What?
The cross-border region Flanders - The Netherlands contains on the Flemish side Antwerp, Limburg, East-Flanders, Flemish-Brabant (only the Leuven district) and West-Flanders (excluding the districts of Veurne and Ieper).  On the Dutch side, the area is formed by the provinces of Limburg, North-Brabant and Zeeland.

For the new programme period 2014 - 2020, this region has chosen 4 themes accompanied by 9 different specific objectives:
- Strengthening research, technological development and innovation
- Support for more energy efficiency and renewable energy
- Protection of the environment and promotion of resource efficiency
- Promotion of employment and supporting labour mobility

Through this second call for projects, the programme wishes to allocate about 20% (27,5 million Euro) of the total available funds. Broken down per theme, the following budget is envisaged:
- Innovation: 9,5 million ERDF
- Energy: 5 million ERDF
- Environment: 10 million ERDF
- Labour market: 3 million ERDF

The Oversight Committee can deviate from the planned maximum budget for the call, as well as from above distribution.

You can submit projects within each theme of the programme. However, the Oversight Committee pays special attention - within the margins of the outlined budget per theme above - to:
- Projects that fit specifically with objectives 2A, 3B, 3C or 4;
- Projects with a positive impact on the programme indicators of the above mentioned specific objectives;
- Projects aimed at the (sustainable) logistics, agrofood and / or nano and / or micro electronics sectors.

Deadline? 
The second call for the new programme was launched on 4 June 2015. The last day for submitting applications is 2 October 2015.

The application procedure takes place in two phases. During the first phase you will submit a limited project outline (deadline 2 October 2015). On the basis of this limited application, the first preselection will take place. The selected projects are then invited to submit a full application file after which the final selection takes place and the approval can follow.

The submission of  project proposals takes place via the e-desk. More information regarding the specific call can be found in the Interreg Flanders - The Netherlands call document. 

More information?
Contact Hasselt University: Annelies Stockmans
Contact Limburg Province Interreg cross-border region Flanders - The Netherlands:  Matthias Verhegge (matthias.verhegge@limburg.be)
Or on the website of Cross-border region Flanders - The Netherlands
 

What?
The programme area of the Euregion Meuse - Rhine has remained unchanged relative to the Interreg IV A EMR programme. Partners have to be located in one of the areas below in order to be eligible for participation in an Interreg EMR project. Projects have to consist of a partnership that transcends country borders.

The programme area consists of the following regions:

The Cooperation programme exists of the following four priority domains:
- Domain 1 - Innovation: technological innovation, tech transfer, synergy corporate world and knowledge institutions

- Domain 2 - Economy: strengthening the competitiveness of small businesses (generally): i.a. supporting starters, implementing new business models with the intention to export, intrapreneurship and extrapreneurship, also the innovation of processes and applications aimed at more efficient use of resources within the small business domain.

- Domain 3 - Social inclusion and education: poverty reduction, community development, cross-border education and coaching programmes, eliminating mismatch between the labour market and education.

Domain 4 - Territorial development: eliminating physical and judicial border boundaries: themes tourism, culture, security, mobility, health care, border information for frontier workers.

Procedure?
The procedure for the approval of projects happens in two phases. In the first phase a project outline is submitted. If this outline gets a 'go', you will be asked to submit a definitive project proposal.

This is why project outlines for the first call need to be submitted per e-mail to the regional Interreg branch office in the area where the lead partner is based and on 30 June 2015 at 12 o'clock in the afternoon at the very latest. For Belgian Limburg, the regional branch officer is Matthias Verhegge (matthias.verhegge@limburg.be). Please also copy the Research Coordination Office (Annelies.stockmans@uhasselt.be) in your communications.

A project outline consists of two parts: a description of the contents and the partnership (word document) and a budget (excel file). Upon submission both documents need to be filled out and in three languages FR - NL - DE. So you will submit six documents.  Important: before you submit your project outline, you will first need to have discussed it with your regional branch office in order to adjust the contents and the feasibility of your project idea. This is also the case for projects for which you are not the lead partner. Your project partners should also inform their own regional branch offices of the projects in which they wish to participate..

Application forms 
- Project outline: NL - DE - FR
- Project budget: NL - DE - FR

Funding?
Project can be funded for max. 50% with ERDF funds from the Interreg programme.
The programme has a ERDF budget of 96 million Euro.

More information?
- Cooperation programme EMR
- Presentation EMR

Contact Hasselt University: Annelies Stockmans
Contact Limburg Province Interreg cross-border region Flanders - The Netherlands: Matthias Verhegge (matthias.verhegge@limburg.be)

What?
The programme area  Northwest Europe consists of: Ireland, the United Kingdom, Belgium, Luxembourg, parts of France, Germany, the Netherlands and Switzerland.
In the new programme period, the NWE programme will focus on 3 priorities, broken down into 5 specific objectives:

Deadline?
Project applications can only be submitted during an open call. It is expected that the first call will be launched in the first half of 2015 if the European Commission approves the operational programme by the end of 2014.

More information?
Contact Hasselt University: Annelies Stockmans
National contact: Carolien Reubens (carolien.reubens@agentschapondernemen.be)