“Platforms are a new funding instrument in Interreg Baltic Sea Region to make more out of the results of a single project, and we are looking forward to an interesting learning experience by working with the platforms,” stressed Susanne Scherrer, director of the Programme’s Managing Authority/Joint Secretariat (MA/JS) at a meeting in mid October in Riga. The managers of six recently approved projects had gathered together with coordinators of the EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region and staff of the MA/JS to exchange about the individual expectations towards and approaches of the platforms.

Interreg Baltic Sea Region opens two targeted calls to advance ongoing projects through an extension or through merging related projects into a project platform. The calls are open until 31 January 2019.

Bricks are everywhere in the Baltic Sea region. They are historical witnesses of the middle ages in northern European coastal countries. This authenticity and the common architectural language associated with medieval brick buildings are the focus of the association European Route of Brick Gothic (EuRoB). EuRoB began as a project funded by Interreg back in 2002. Today it is a cultural route of 1500 km along the Baltic Sea coast.