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INTERREG IIIB - UK PROGRESS TO DATE
Programme Dissemination
INTERREG IIIB is scheduled to run from 2000 to 2006. The UK has excellent links through the ODPM’s International Planning Unit (ODPM/IPU) to the Programme Secretariats and has been working in co-operation with them to provide UK interests with information about the status of the Programmes. It does so by means of this web site and through advice given by the ODPM/IPU, the Government Offices/Devolved Administrations and UK Contact Points. It also commissioned a series of 8 seminars held in regional centres between November 2001 and March 2002 (click here for details). ODPM/IPU has also promoted UK participation in a number of themed seminars and international partner search events. These promotional events have proven popular and successful and will continue – click here for links to the events page.
UK Participation in the Programmes
NWE programme: 22 UK led projects have been approved under this programme to date from 5 bidding rounds. The first Programme Steering Committee (PSC) was held in Middelburg in the Netherlands in June 2002 at which UK led projects were awarded ERDF €5,146,656. At the second PSC in Brussels in November 2002 UK led projects were awarded €12,572,040. The PSC met the third time in Cardiff in June 2003 where UK led projects received €33,972,563. At the fourth PSC in Brussels during November 2003 another €12,673,190 was approved for UK led projects. PSC5, which took place in Wepion (Belgium) in June of this year, awarded a further €18,449,707 to UK-led projects.
So far UK- led projects have successfully drawn down €84,644,000.
NSR programme: 13 UK led projects have been approved in this programme area. The first round resulted in an award of €4,325,994 being approved for UK led projects at the PSC in Copenhagen in April 2002. The second PSC saw UK-led projects being awarded €13,723,445 in November of 2002. The Third PSC in Ostend in May 2003 approved €3,423,656 for UK-led projects. The 4th PSC approved €7,662,000 for UK-led projects whilst the 5th allocated €1,533,389 for UK-led projects.
To date UK-led has successfully drawn down a total of €30,668,482.
AA programme: There have been 2 Calls, the first one split into 3 parts. The first Call Steering Committee approved 8 UK led projects worth €15,812,111. The second PSC in Bute in October of this year approved a further €11,698,167.11 for 5 more UK-led projects.
The UK-led projects have drawn-down €27,510,649.11 from this programme to date.
