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The next version of Interreg Europe - the only pan-Europe Interreg programme - is due to be finalised by early next year with the first call for proposals to be issued in the first half of 2022.

As progress is being made towards towards that finalisation, PURPLE has taken the opportunity to participate in the public consultation exercise which closed on April 16th. Within its online response to the draft version of the Cooperation Programme, PURPLE welcomed the broadening of scope to take greater account of regional policy instruments beyond those developed as part of ESIF programmes. It also welcomed the broader thematic focus and the opportunity to devote more resource to delivering transnational pilot actions. 

Although the space to respond to the template survey was strictly limited, PURPLE was also able to signal its approval for the programme-wide objective of developing capacity within regional authorities to develop apppropriate policy tools with the full involvment of a broad range of stakeholders.