The event has been designed after the first online discussion on Multi-level governance for

This online discussion will be dedicated to better understand how regional policymakers can build synergies between Cohesion Policy and Horizon Europe. The European Commission recommends regions to build synergies between the two most important EU R&I funding instruments—Horizon Europe and the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF). The two funding have different funding principles and ; 

Synergies involve two or more programmes interacting to produce a greater effect than individual interventions. Synergies can take different forms, and may include:

• ESIFs supporting capacity-building activities for research to increase the chances of beneficiaries subsequently receiving the more competitive H2020 funding (upstream synergies)
• ESIFs funding the exploitation or further development of Horizon 2020 projects’ results (downstream synergies)

Other synergies include, for instance, alternative funding such as Seal of Excellence to provide funds to project proposals ( H2020 projects that received a positive evaluation but were not funded due to insufficient resources, or bringing together H2020 and ERDF in the same projects).   

What you can expect

• To exchange experience and discuss the role of multi-level governance in regional research and innovation policymaking

• To present good practices from selected Interreg Europe projects 

• To discuss challenges and opportunities for regions to use multi-level governance