INTERREG V-A AUSTRIA-HUNGARY PROGRAMME

Programme budget

The programme Interreg V-A Austria-Hungary is co-financed through the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF). In the 2014-2020 programming period the EU contributes ERDF-resources to an amount of over 78 m EUR. The total programme budget amounts to 95 m EUR.

Projects receive funding from the EU up to a maximum of 85% of their total costs. All projects have to raise a financing contribution out of public or private means of at least 15%. An additional requirement for funding is a minimum total project budget of 25.000 EUR.

Priorities
In thematic terms the support of the programme Interreg V-A Austria-Hungary concentrates on four cooperation areas, the so-called priority axes, whereat each priority axis contains specific objectives. To obtain support for a cross-border project, it shall fit in the pre-defined priority axes and specific objectives of the programme as well as in the respective activity fields.

Priority area 01: Competitiveness of SMEs
SO11 Entrepreneurship: Strengthening regional entrepreneurship, the performance of start-ups and the innovation capacities of SMEs with a focus on the development of (internationally) competitive products.

Priority area 02: Protecting the environment and promoting resource efficiency

SO21 Improving the protection, promotion and development of natural and cultural heritage through common approaches to sustainable tourism.

SO22 Improving the ecological stability and resilience of landscape and ecosystems.

SO23 Improving the management and protection of water bodies.

Priority area 03: Promoting sustainable transport and removing bottlenecks in key network infrastructures

SO31 Improving cross-border connectivity of regional centres to the TEN-T network

SO32 Enhancing sustainable mobility on the local and regional level

Priority area 04: Enhancing institutional capacity and an efficient public administration

SO41 Improving institutional cross-border cooperation in order to strengthen the integration.
SO42 Strengthening intercultural capacities and labour mobility of the border population by supporting cross-border education initiatives and vocational training.

Potential applicants and their locations
At least one Austrian and one Hungarian partner shall be involved in the partnership.

The following legal entities may have acted in the Interreg V-A AT-HU programme:
•    Public or public-equivalent institutions
•    Non-profit organisations
•    Other institutions which on project level act in public interest
•    Private institutions, including private companies, having legal personality

Private individuals, political parties, direct subsidies to individual enterprises and profit-oriented activities within the framework of the project are not eligible.

Furthermore, partner institutions have to be located in the programme area or to be competent in their scope of action for certain parts of the eligible area (like ministries or other national institutions). 
In only exceptional cases, institutions from outside the programme area can participate in a project, provided they have special expertise not available in the programme area, but being essential for the project.

Availability of funds

For the spring of 2021 all funds available for projects in the 2014-2020 programme were contracted, thus no new applications are possible in the programme.

Read more about the funded projects here: https://www.interreg-athu.eu/en/current-projects/

Next programming period 

The development of the new Interreg Austria-Hungary Programme for the period 2021-2027 has started in 2020. More details about the programme will be published on the below link following its approval by the European Commission. The first call for new projects may not be available before the fourth quarter 2022.

More information about the NEW programming can be found on the following link:

https://www.interreg-athu.eu/en/interreg-at-hu-2021-2027/.