720 partners in 61 project applications

The third call for project applications is closed. The Secretariat received 61 applications and will start now with the admissibility check.

The total budget of the 61 projects applying in the 3rd call would be approximately 172 million EUR. Most of the Lead Partners come from Finland and Sweden (both 14) and Germany (12). Around 720 partner organisations were involved in preparing the project applications.

30 projects applied in priority 1 "Fostering innovations", 6 applied in Priority 2 "Internal and external accessibility", 13 in Priority 3 "Baltic Sea as a common resource" and 12 in Priority 4 "Attractive and competitive cities and regions".

The Monitoring Committee (MC) will decide about the first projects in its meeting in Helsinki, Finland, on 9-10 June 2010. The remaining projects will be decided in a second meeting after summer.