Approved projects within the 3rd call of the Transnational Cooperation Program Central Europe 2021-2027.

Croatian partners are participating in 12 approved projects with a total of 15 contracts, through which they have secured around 1.6 million euros of EU funds.
At a meeting held on 22 and 23 September 2025 in Split, the Monitoring Committee of the Transnational Cooperation Programme Central Europe 2021-2027 approved the projects from the 3rd call for project proposals. Projects worth 15 million euros of EU funds were approved for financing.
The programme, under the European Territorial Cooperation objective, supports cooperation between nine Central European countries: Croatia, Austria, the Czech Republic, Italy (Emilia-Romagna, Friuli Venezia Giulia, Liguria, Lombardia, Piemonte, Provincia Autonoma Bolzano, Provincia Autonoma Trento, Valle d’Aosta and Veneto), Hungary, Germany (Baden-Württemberg, Bavaria, Berlin, Brandenburg, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, Thuringia and Braunschweig), Poland, Slovenia and Slovakia.
The majority of projects were funded through Specific Objective 1.2 (Strengthening skills for smart specialization, industrial transition and entrepreneurship), where 9 projects were approved, and Specific Objective 4.1 (Strengthening governance for integrated territorial development), where 8 projects were approved.
Croatian partners are participating in 12 approved projects with a total of 15 contracts, through which they secured around EUR 1.6 million in EU funds.
Croatian partners are mostly collaborating on projects related to the topics of smart specialization, industrial transition and entrepreneurship (7 contracts) and projects related to the topics of greening urban mobility in Central Europe (4 contracts).
So far, through three approved calls, Croatian partners have achieved 97 contracts worth over EUR 16.8 million in EU funds, which is more than 4 times the amount invested by the Republic of Croatia in the Programme in this programming period.
The list of all approved projects can be found at: https://www.interreg-central.eu/third-call-results/