The future of Interreg after 2027

The Interreg MAC programme, co-financed by the EU, has been a fundamental support for boosting cooperation between Madeira, the Azores and the Canary Islands and neighbouring West African countries. For more than 20 years, the MAC programme has co-funded hundreds of joint projects, which have created strong links between the entities of the participating territories and generated an extremely valuable capital of knowledge and good practices. 

In the current period 2021-2027 the geographical scope of the programme has been extended to 4 additional African countries, in addition to the 3 that were already participating in the 2014-2020 period, bringing the total number of programme partner countries to 7: Cape Verde, Ivory Coast, Gambia, Ghana, Mauritania, Senegal, Sao Tome and Principe.

What do we want this cooperation to look like in the future? How can Interreg continue to help strengthen relations between the EU outermost regions (ORs) of Madeira, the Azores and the Canaries and their African neighbours?

The debate on the future of Cohesion Policy and Interreg (territorial cooperation) started last year and the European Union (EU) wants to hear stakeholders’ views on what improvements should be included in the design of this policy. 

With this short questionnaire we would like to contribute to the public consultation that is being coordinated by the European Commission. Your contribution will be used to feed its reflection and to design concrete proposals on the future of Interreg.

We encourage you to take advantage of this unique opportunity and send us your ideas and proposals until 4 October. 

LINK TO THE QUESTIONNAIRE: https://forms.gle/JZLe2ghZ12acC5Bs7