1. CENTRAL EUROPE PROGRAMME
2007-2013
CrossCulTour Workshop and Final Event
Brussels, 7 September 2011
Cultural Heritage projects within the
Central Europe Programme
Christophe Ebermann
JTS CENTRAL EUROPE PROGRAMME

2. TRANSNATIONAL
COOPERATION 2007 - 2013
EU supports 13 European
Transnational Cooperation
Programmes
•Northern Periphery
•Baltic Sea
•North West Europe
•North Sea
•Atlantic Coast
•Alpine Space
•Central Europe
•South West Europe
•Mediterranean
•South East Europe
•Caribbean Area
•Açores-Madeira-Canarias
•Indian Ocean Area

3. CENTRAL EUROPE
PROGRAMME AREA
8 EU countries
1 third country
Surface:
Around 1,050,000 km²
Population:
Around 148 million citizens
4 Programme Priorities:
Innovation
Accessibility
Environment
Competitiveness and
attractiveness of cities
and regions Funds:
~230 Mio € ERDF

4. PROGRAMME GOALS AND
PRIORITIES
Overall goal
Strengthening territorial cohesion, promoting internal integration and
enhancing the competitiveness of Central Europe.
Priorities
 Priority 1: Facilitating Innovation across Central Europe
 Priority 2: Improving Accessibility of and within Central Europe
 Priority 3: Using our Environment Responsibly
 Priority 4: Enhancing Competitiveness and Attractiveness of Cities
and Regions

5. PROGRAMME STATE OF PLAY
 3 Calls for Proposals already launched, projects selected and
approved for funding
 94 projects approved
 1st Call: 29 projects
 2nd Call: 37 projects
 3rd Call: 28 projects
 Additional projects to come:
 Restricted Call for Strategic projects: projects currently being
contracted
 4th call for Proposals currently open until the 14th of October 2011

6. PROJECT SIZE, DURATION AND
FUNDING
Indicative project size:
1-5 million EUR total eligible budget (average 2 Mio EUR ERDF)
Partnership:
Partners from at least three countries needed (average partnership size:
11 partners)
Indicative project duration
Between 30 - 36 months (max 48 months)
Co-financing rates
Up to 75%: Austria, Germany, Italy
Up to 85%: Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia
Up to 75%: EU partners located outside the CENTRAL EUROPE area
Transnational cooperation projects with clear added value to the
CENTRAL EUROPE cooperation area

7. PROGRAMME PRIORITIES &
AREAS OF INTERVENTION
 Priority 4: Enhancing Competitiveness and Attractiveness of Cities
and Regions – currently 22 projects
 4.1 Developing polycentric settlement structures and territorial
cooperation (7 projects)
 4.2 Addressing the territorial effects of demographic and social
change on urban and regional development (6 projects)
 4.3 Capitalising on cultural resources for more attractive cities and
regions (9 projects)

8. CULTURAL HERITAGE RELATED
PROJECTS
Partnership &
Project acronym and title Duration
countries covered
CrossCulTou Cross Marketing Strategies for 12.2008 9 partners,
r Culture and Tourism for more – 4 countries,
Attractiveness and 11.2011 LP*: Germany
Competitiveness for Cities and
Regions
CUSTODES Cultural Sites and Tourism: 11.2008 7 partners,
Development of European – 4 countries,
Strategies 10.2011 LP*: Italy
DANUBE Nomination of the Central 10.2008 7 partners,
LIMES European part of the Roman – 5 countries,
Danube Limes within the 12.2011 LP*: Hungary
international UNESCO World
Heritage Framework “Frontiers of
the Roman Empire”
LP* = Country of project Lead Partner

9. CULTURAL HERITAGE RELATED
PROJECTS
Partnership &
Project acronym and title Duration
countries covered
LISTEN TO Local Initiative STrENgthening: how 1.2009 9 partners,
THE VOICE to build up a new TOurism in THE – 6 countries,
OF VILLAGES Valleys and among the mOst vItal 2.2012 LP*: Italy
CEntres OF rural VILLAGES
CREATIVE Development and Promotion of 1.2010 11 partners,
CITIES Creative Industry Potentials in – 5 countries,
Central European Cities 12.2012 LP*: Germany
SECOND From Industrial Use to Creative 1.2010 10 partners,
CHANCE Impulse – 4 countries,
6.2013 LP*: Germany
LP* = Country of project Lead Partner

10. CULTURAL HERITAGE RELATED
PROJECTS
Partnership &
Project acronym and title Duration
countries covered
CCC Cultural Capital Counts 5.2011 10 partners,
- 6 countries,
4.2014 LP*: Austria
ETNOFOLK Preservation and Enhancement of 5.2011 7 partners,
Folk Culture Heritage in Central - 4 countries,
Europe 4.2014 LP*: Czech
Republic
TRADITIONAL Promoting traditional collection 5.2011 9 partners,
AND WILD and use of wild plants to reduce - 4 countries,
social and economic disparities in 4.2014 LP*: Hungary
Central Europe
LP* = Country of project Lead Partner

11. CONCLUSIONS
Conclusions
 Fostering the sustainable use of cultural resources and heritage is
one of the goals supported by the Central Europe Programme
 Transnational cooperation is perceived as a highly relevant
approach for dealing with cultural heritage
 Several exciting projects are already being supported: from cultural
routes, to creative industries, to intangible cultural heritage etc.
 The 4th and last Call for Proposals is currently open (until the
14.10.2011) including the Area of Intervention 4.3 focusing on
cultural heritage

12. INFORMATION & SUPPORT
• CENTRAL EUROPE Programme
Joint Technical Secretariat
Museumstrasse 3/A/III
A-1070 Vienna
Phone: +43 1 4000 76130
Fax: +43 1 4000 9976141
Email:
christophe.ebermann@central2013.eu
Internet: www.central2013.eu

13. Thank you for your attention!