A major evaluation of the progress of INTERREG programmes has been completed by EPRC. Commissioned by the INTERACT Secretariat in Vienna, the report - authored by Sandra Taylor, Karol Olejniczak and John Bachtler - involves a meta-evaluation of c.70 mid-term evaluations of INTERREG IIIA, IIIB and IIIC programmes.
The report examines the financial and physical performance of the INTERREG programmes during the 2000-06 period, the management and implementation structures and the lessons for the future of cross-border, trans-national and inter-regional cooperation during the remainder of the current period and under the proposed new territorial cooperation after 2006. The initial results were presented by John Bachtler at an INTERREG conference in Ljubljana on 20-21 September. The report is expected to be published by INTERACT later in the year.