European Territorial Co-operation

Acronym

INTERREG

Full name of the programme

European Territorial Co-operation

Name call

INTERREG MAC Territorial Cooperation Program 2014-2020

Work Programme

INTERREG MAC

Objective

The main objective of the INTERREG VA Madeira, Azores and Canary Islands (MAC) Cooperation Program is to promote cross-border and transnational cooperation between the Portuguese Autonomous Regions of the Azores and Madeira, the Spanish Autonomous Community of the Canary Islands and the neighboring third countries, Cape Verde, Senegal and Mauritania who were invited to join the cooperation area. Strategically, there are five major axes or thematic objectives involved. Contributing to reinforce research, technological development and innovation (Axis 1) and to improve the competitiveness of SMEs (Axis 2), also includes actions to promote adaptation to climate change and risk prevention and management (axis 3), as well as conservation and protection of the environment and promotion of resource efficiency (axis 4). Finally, under axis 5, “Strengthening institutional capacity and efficiency in public administration”, the program promotes the recovery of new models of public administration organization that will increase the effectiveness and efficiency of the public services provided, in order to achieve a greater integration.

Target

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Key Themes

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Sea-basin

Atlantic (Macaronesia)