News 2025

On 27 November 2025, we successfully held an online training session for the beneficiaries of the 2nd Calls for Proposals. The event aimed to provide practical guidance on key implementation aspects, strengthen beneficiaries’ capacities, and clarify essential rules and procedures.

The meeting presentations covered several important topics:
• an overview of the grant contract provisions,
• management verifications,
• procurement rules, and
• anti-fraud measures and irregularities.

We thank all participants for their active engagement and valuable questions throughout the session.

Presentations are available HERE.

The European Commission has approved the second revision of the Interreg NEXT Black Sea Basin Programme and the Performance Framework Methodology.

The European Week of Regions and Cities 2025 will take place from 13 to 15 October 2025 in Brussels.

Each year on 21 September, Interreg Cooperation Day highlights the power of cross-border collaboration.

On 19 June 2025, the Common Maritime Agenda for the Black Sea CMA launched the Black Sea Project Awards 2025, marking the third consecutive year of this initiative.

The European Commission has released the Harvesting Report on post-2027 Interreg, summarising insights from over 10,000 citizens and stakeholders across Europe.

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The Declaration on honour has been updated, in order to take into account the provisions of the new Financial Regulation, 2024/2509, mainly as regards the exclusion criteria and the selection criteria related to the absence of professional conflicting interests.

In 1950, on 9^th of May, French foreign minister, Robert Schuman presented the Schuman Declaration, proposing the creation of a European Coal and Steel Community, which was the first of a series of supranational European institutions that would ultimately become today's "European Union".

The European Commission has launched a Call for Evidence to support the development of a new Joint Communication, outlining the EU’s strategic approach to the Black Sea.