Interreg North Sea — Call 6

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Enriched EU · Found: 2026-03-14 17:46

Transnational cooperation for green and sustainable future in North Sea region. Priority 2: Green transitions; Priority 3: Climate resilience, pollution and biodiversity. Denmark, Norway, Sweden eligible. EUR 1-2M typical. Call 6 opens December 2026.

Source: https://www.interregnorthsea.eu/calls-applications

Funding Details

Funder: Interreg North Sea
Funding Goal: Support small-scale capitalisation projects that uptake and upscale the outputs of completed or ongoing VIB (2021-2027) Interreg North Sea projects, transforming these outputs to address new target groups or new domains. Projects must align with themes on the current European agenda: increasing competitiveness, stronger rural areas, and building resilience.
Funding Amount: Up to EUR 1 million total project budget (up to 1.000.000 €)
Deadline: 2027-03-15 (Fixed)
How to Apply: Guidance note for Call 6 to be published May 2026. GetReady! event in Lille, France on 24 June 2026 for prospective applicants. Call opens December 2026, closes mid-March 2027 (approximate). Advisory support available from project advisors and national contact points up to two weeks before closing. Apply via programme portal.
Target Region: North Sea region: Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, France (cross-border)
Contact: Via national contact points: https://www.interregnorthsea.eu/national-contact-points | Programme portal: https://www.interregnorthsea.eu/programme-login
Official Page: https://www.interregnorthsea.eu/apply-in-call-6
Last Checked: 2026-05-07 01:11

Application Checklist

Eligibility

Eligible countries: Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, France
Must be a genuinely transnational partnership spanning multiple North Sea countries

Project Scope

Project must build upon a documented output from a VIB Interreg North Sea project (eligible output list to be published May 2026)
Project must align with European agenda themes: competitiveness, rural areas, or resilience

Required Documents

Guidance note to be published May 2026; attend GetReady! event 24 June 2026 Lille, France

Constraints

Maximum 9 partners, budget up to EUR 1 million, duration 1.5-2 years
Call opens December 2026 — early partner identification recommended

Summary

Interreg North Sea Call 6 is a small-scale capitalisation call, the final funding round of the 2021-2027 programme period, designed to boost the positive impacts already achieved by VIB Interreg North Sea projects by upscaling and transforming their outputs to reach new audiences or domains. Call 6 will open in December 2026 and close in mid-March 2027. Thematically, Call 6 projects must align with one of three current European agenda priorities: increasing competitiveness, stronger rural areas, or building resilience. Within these, earlier programme themes relevant to sustainability (green transitions, climate resilience, pollution reduction, biodiversity, circular economy, blue economy, water governance) remain implicitly relevant as the eligible outputs come from these programme priorities. Eligible activities include capitalising on and adapting documented outputs from prior Interreg North Sea projects — for example, tools, methodologies, pilot results, training curricula, or decision frameworks — and applying them to a new context, target group, or domain. Projects may not develop entirely new solutions from scratch. Geographic scope is the North Sea region: Belgium, Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, and France. Projects must be genuinely transnational and cross the national borders of participating countries. Eligible applicants include both existing Interreg North Sea project partners and newcomers to the programme. Projects may involve up to nine partners with a total budget of up to EUR 1 million, and a duration of 1.5–2 years. Programme co-financing rate is ERDF standard (approximately 60-70% of eligible costs for EU countries). Norway participates via ENPI/EEA mechanisms. A list of eligible outputs (outputs from VIB projects that can be capitalised upon) will be published. Advisory support and the GetReady! event are available to help potential applicants identify suitable outputs and build partnerships.

Historical Context

Call 6 is the final call under the VIB (2021-2027) programme period. It is a capitalisation call — a new format that requires building on existing project outputs rather than starting fresh projects. Previous calls (1-5) funded standard transnational cooperation projects in green transitions, climate resilience, blue economy, and circular economy. List of eligible outputs to be published.

Why it was added

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