This document is the final report of the ex post evaluation of programmes aiming at promoting European Territorial Cooperation (ETC), widely known as Interreg, during the period 2007-2013. This evaluation was commissioned by the Directorate-General for Regional and Urban Policy, and is part of a...

The case study carried out as a component of the ex post evaluation of the ETC under cohesion policy programmes 2007-2013, aims to address two main questions: 1) has the Interreg IV C programme developed the capacity and structures to make knowledge and concepts gained in their projects...

The Interreg IVA programme North covers a large area with 1.5 million people, including the northernmost regions of Finland, Sweden and Norway. These share common challenges as well as opportunities related to their peripheral and sparsely populated character combined with specific geographical...

This case study report provides an assessment of the Baltic Sea Region programme 2007-2013, its main achievements, and contribution to territorial development and to the implementation of the European Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region. The programme area involves eight EU member states...

This case study report provides an assessment of the Atlantic Area (AA) programme 2007-2013. The main achievements of the AA programme are overwhelmingly "soft" including the development of joint networks and platforms to promote maritime cooperation, the creation of coomon databases,...

The focus on the maritime dimension of the Channel area provides the France (Channel) - England CBC programme with an underpinning rationale for cooperation for environmental protection and enhancement of the area's shared natural resources. The programme has delivered 55 projects focusing on...

The Slovak-Hungarian CBC OP has included "capacity-building" in the specific intervention axis 1.5 under priority 1 "Economy and society". The main aim of this axis was to reinforce and to build up the capacities of local stakeholders (public, non-governmental, private) to initiate cross-border...

The programme area represents nearly the whole of the Dutch-German border region. The two parts of the programme area share many aspects, both in geographic, economic and environmental terms. Cross-border cooperation has a long tradition in this area, starting in the 1950s. The first Interreg...

The Saxony-Czech Republic cross-border cooperation 2007-2013 programme covers an area of 20.000 km², including part of the Saxony region on the German side and three bordering counties in North Bohemia in the Czech Republic. The area has 3.4 million inhabitants. Economic development is...

The present case study provides an assessment of the Northern Ireland, Border Region of Ireland and Western Scotland programmes' main achievements, cooperation mechanisms put in place and their effects in terms of reducing barriers to co-operation. It also aims to identify the added value of...