What does the Romanian-Hungarian border area need most? What challenges do people and organisations face across the border, and where can we work together? The Interreg VI-A Romania-Hungary Programme (Managing Authority, Hungarian National Authority, Joint Secretariat and Info Point), together with experts from the Central European Service for Cross-border Initiatives (CESCI), invites stakeholders from Romania […]
The story of two women who turned the fight against bullying into a promise: no child faces it alone It doesn't always start with a fight in the schoolyard. It starts quieter than that. A girl who stops raising her hand in class. A boy who eats lunch alone, again, and says he's "not hungry." […]
A new era in cross-border cooperation and the removal of administrative obstacles under the "BRIDGEforEU" Regulation. Nearly one-third of the European Union's population - approximately 150 million people - live in border regions. Although the freedom of the single market theoretically ensures mobility, daily reality often shows otherwise. When accessing jobs, educational opportunities, healthcare, or […]
The preparation of the Interreg Chapter for 2028–2034 is ongoing and we want to hear from people who live, work and cooperate across the Romania-Hungary border. To feed the Territorial Analysis for the Interreg Chapter, we are launching an Online Survey. The survey includes four sections. Choose the one that best describes you and share […]
"If you could change just one thing in your city or in the cross-border region tomorrow, what would you change?" That was how we opened our event "Beyond borders: youth ideas for tomorrow" on September 30th at the University of Debrecen. A simple question, with no wrong answers, and the start of a day that […]
On 1 September 2026, representatives of Romania and Hungary gathered in Oradea for the first meeting of the Programming Committee (PC), marking the formal start of the preparation of the Interreg Chapter for the 2028-2034 programming period. The Programming Committee brings together representatives of national, regional and local authorities, institutions and other relevant organisations from […]
How Romanian and Hungarian researchers are helping doctors stay one step ahead of antimicrobial resistance A patient arrives at the hospital with a severe infection. Doctors begin treatment, but they do not yet know which bacterium is responsible. Every hour counts. Somewhere, hidden within a tiny clinical sample, lies the answer that could change the […]
What does Europe mean to young people today? Opportunities? Connection? The freedom to study, travel, cooperate and share ideas beyond borders? These were some of the questions that brought students together on May 12th at the University of Oradea for an interactive workshop organised on the occasion of Europe Day by the Managing Authority of […]
The 5th Monitoring Committee Meeting, held online on 16 December 2025, marked an important milestone in the implementation of the Interreg VI-A Romania–Hungary Programme. The meeting provided an opportunity to review progress to date and to set priorities for the upcoming implementation phase. Thanks to the dedication and professionalism of project partners and Programme structures, the Programme has reached full operational capacity […]
In the Romanian–Hungarian border region, many people regularly cross the border to receive the medical care they need. But when hospitals cannot easily share patient information, treatment is delayed, and coordination becomes difficult. Improving data exchange is essential to ensure timely and safe care for patients on both sides of the border. To address this, […]
From 9 to 13 June 2026, Brussels will host the third edition of the Festival of the New European Bauhaus - five days dedicated to ideas, creativity, and collaboration. The Festival brings together sustainability, good design, and inclusion, turning the vision of the European Green Deal into concrete actions with real impact on communities. More than just an event, the Festival is a […]
Every year around 21 September, people across Europe and beyond celebrate something that touches all our lives: cooperation across borders. Since 2012, Interreg Cooperation Day has reminded us of a simple truth: Europe works better when we work together. This year felt especially meaningful as it also marked 35 years of Interreg. Creativity as a […]
The Project Implementation Manual (PIM) and Visual Identity Manual (VIM) have been recently updated to make project implementation and communication clearer and more effective. The PIM updates focus on three main areas. Section 3.1.2 on project communication has been simplified to provide general guidance and references to VIM for easier navigation, while all detailed communication requirements are now included in the revised VIM. Annex […]
Update: The PowerPoint presentations from the Hungarian sessions organized between March 3-6, 2025, are now available for download here. Additionally, the PowerPoints for OSI in Romanian, as well as the upcoming training calendar for March and April, can be consulted below. ---- Between February 24 and February 27, 2025, we successfully concluded a series of four online training sessions tailored for project […]
We are pleased to announce that the Project Implementation Manual (PIM) for all projects contracted under the Interreg VI-A Romania-Hungary Programme is now available for download! You can access it in the Documents 2021-2027 / Project Documents section of the Programme website, where you will find all essential materials for project implementation, including the JEMS Manual and the Visual Identity Toolkit. The Project Implementation Manual (PIM) serves as […]
We are delighted to share important developments from the 4th Monitoring Committee (MC) meeting, held on December 16, 2024. These advancements represent a major milestone in fostering cooperation and sustainable growth across the border region. New Projects Selected Under Priority 2, 1st Open Call A total of over €25.4 million from the European Regional Development […]
Significant progress was achieved during the 4th Monitoring Committee Meeting of the Interreg VI-A Romania-Hungary Programme, held online on December 16, 2024, as all 11 Operations of Strategic Importance (OSI) outlined in Appendix 3 of the Programme were approved for funding. This milestone emphasizes the Programme’s commitment to fostering cross-border cooperation and addressing key regional […]
On November 27, 2024, the conference "EU Values Overcoming Borders" took place in Oradea, marking the celebration of Interreg Cooperation Day 2024. Organised by the Interreg VI-A Romania-Hungary Programme in partnership with Ţării Crişurilor Museum from Oradea, the event brought together over 120 participants. It served as a platform to explore the relations between Romania […]
We are pleased to invite you to a conference organised by the Interreg VI-A Romania-Hungary Programme, in partnership with Ţării Crişurilor Museum Oradea to celebrate Interreg Cooperation Day 2024. This year’s theme, "EU Values Overcoming Borders" highlights the spirit of unity that has brought us together as European nations through cooperation, shared development, and community-building. […]
IMPORTANT UPDATE: We are pleased to announce that the last Monitoring Committee Decision, issued this month, brought several changes to Priority 1 allocated funds. Thus, the total ERDF has been increased to €22,743,804.80 (from about €21.77 million), and re-distributed among the three Specific Objectives as follows: 2.2 Promoting renewable energy: € 9,372,741.97 (a new project […]
The Ministry of Development, Public Works, and Administration, acting as the Managing Authority for the Interreg VI-A Romania-Hungary Programme, after consulting the National Authority from Hungary, is pleased to announce the launch of a public consultation on the draft of the Applicant’s Guide for Operations of Strategic Importance (OSI) within the Programme. Stakeholders and interested parties […]
We are thrilled to announce a major Interreg VI-A Romania-Hungary Programme milestone! The Monitoring Committee gathered online on July 22, 2024, on the occasion of its second meeting chaired by Mr Traian Gabriel GHILEA, Deputy State Secretary & ROHU Programme coordinator decided to select for financing the first 38 people-to-people projects, submitted under Interreg Specific […]
The First Open Call for HARD projects gathered significant attention, resulting in 127 applications by the deadline, on January 26, 2024. The submitted projects covered various fields. These included 56 project proposals in the field of culture and tourism (SO 4.6), 24 in biodiversity (SO 2.7), 16 in renewable energy (SO 2.2), 14 in health […]
A practical management tool for the implementation of the Interreg VI-A Romania-Hungary Programme The Evaluation Plan (EvalPlan), has been developed by the Managing Authority (MA) in cooperation with the National Authority (NA), according to art. 35 of Reg. (EU) 1059/2021 provisions, and building on the input of the Evaluation Unit. The EvalPlan was approved by […]
We kindly inform potential applicants that the application deadline for HARD projects under the 1st Open Call, has been extended until 26.01.2024, 17:00 hours, Bucharest time (EET) // 16:00 hours, Budapest time (CET). The application package has been updated accordingly. Corrigendum no.1 together with the updated version of the Applicants Guide of the 1st Open Call is available here. Applicants are kindly requested […]
Oradea Regional Office for Cross-Border Cooperation, acting as contracting authority, is launching a call for evaluators to create a pool of external experts in the framework of the Interreg VI-A Romania-Hungary Programme. We are looking for professionals, who have good knowledge in at least one of the Specific Objectives financed within the Programme, and experience […]
On 28 June 2023, the Interreg VI-A Romania-Hungary Programme launched its First Open Call for proposals, comprising two components - SOFT projects (which do not include infrastructure elements requiring a building permit) and HARD projects (for which a building permit is required). The total budget of the call is of EUR 53,521,942, out of which […]
When filling out Jems co-financing section, please use the tool we've prepared to help you correctly define the amounts and related percentages on sources of financing. Special attention is to be paid to relevant ERDF thresholds (EUR 2 million for P1&2 and EUR 200,000 for P3) at project level. Projects exceeding a TOTAL budget of EUR […]
In order to keep in touch with potential applicants under the active call, and to reach as many participants as possible, beginning with September and until the closing deadline for 1st Open Call, i.e. December 27, the Joint Secretariat and the Information Points invite you to participate in weekly online question and answer sessions. The […]
The New European Bauhaus will be a driving force to bring the European Green Deal to life in an attractive, and innovative and human-centred way. It will be a movement based on sustainability, accessibility, and aesthetics to bring the European Green Deal closer to people and make recycling, renewable energies and biodiversity natural. - Ursula […]
In order to support potential applicants in completing the Jems application form, you are invited to participate in the online training sessions scheduled for 21-23 August 2023, according to the following calendar: → Monday 21 August: 11.00 EET/10.00 CET and 15.00 EET/14.00 CET - in English. → Tuesday 22 August: 10.00 EET - in Romanian […]
We know that finding project partners can be challenging, especially for newcomers. For this reason, targeted online events for each priority of the active 1st Open Call for proposal were organised. Thus, on July 27, 2023, two meetings were held, to discuss future projects expected to bring their contribution to a greener and more social […]
The potential ROHU applicants are kindly asked to exclusively use the Jems link provided on the Programme’s website when developing the project applications in the context of the 1st Open Call for project proposals, launched June 28th, 2023 under Interreg VI-A Romania-Hungary Programme. Considering several Interreg Programmes have active calls using the same electronic system […]
To facilitate the generation of ROHU cross-border cooperation projects, a tool is now available on the Programme’s website, to help applicants find a partner on the other side of the border, and the Programme create a comprehensive contact database, to further disseminate Programme-related information. Thus, between 20.07.2023 and 25.07.2023, interested applicants are invited to fill […]
The ROHU VI-A Information Day caravan, organized between 03 - 13 July in all 8 county seats of the Programme Area, was met with great interest: 288 participants joined the events. The presentation of the active 1st Open Call (download link below) provided potential applicants with comprehensive information on the requirements, guidelines, and specific […]
The Ministry of Development, Public Works and Administration, acting as Managing Authority for the Interreg VI-A Romania-Hungary Programme, launches today, June 28, 2023, the 1st Open Call for project proposals. Submission: Projects that do NOT include an infrastructure component for which a construction permit is required: 28.06.2023 – 27.9.2023, 23:00 (CET)/24:00 (EET); Projects that include […]
In view of the launch of the 1st Open Call for project proposals, to support potential applicants in the preparation of projects to be submitted, the Joint Secretariat and the Info Points organise a series of Info Day events, during July 03 – 13, 2023. The Info Days will take place in each of the […]
The Ministry of Development, Public Works and Administration, as the Managing Authority for the Interreg VI-A Romania-Hungary Programme, launches today, June 7, 2023, a short public consultation (second round) on the Applicant's Guide related to the 1st Open Call for project proposals, the version approved by the Programme’s Monitoring Committee, during its first meeting. The […]
The 1st Monitoring Committee (MC) meeting of the Interreg VI-A Romania-Hungary Programme took place on Monday, May 22nd, 2023, in Szeged (Hungary). The designated members and observers of the two national delegations, representing both public institutions (central, regional, and local) and civil society (academic environment and NGOs), gathered to decide upon relevant documents meant to […]
The Launching Conference of Interreg VI-A Romania – Hungary Programme was a real success. More than 100 stakeholders attended the event organized in Oradea, Romania, on Europe’s Day. Organized by the Ministry of Development, Public Works and Administration (MDPWA), as Managing Authority, represented by H.E. the Minister of MDPWA, Mr Cseke Attila, the Conference was […]
Representatives of the Government of Romania , the Government of Hungary and the European Commission have confirmed their participation in the event, which will be further boosted by the invited keynote speakers within the panel and facilitated by Mrs Livia Banu, executive director of BRECO, the institution hosting of the Joint Secretariat and First Level […]
The Ministry of Development, Public Works and Administration, as Managing Authority for the Interreg VI-A Romania-Hungary Programme 2021-2027, launches for public consultation, today, April 7th 2023, the Applicant’s Guide for the 1st Open Call for project proposals. The document intends to help the applicants to prepare the content of the project proposals to be submitted […]
The Interreg VI-A Romania-Hungary Programme was adopted by the European Commission on December 16, 2022.
Having a total allocation of 175,940,025 EUR, out of which 140,752,020 EUR ERDF, the new Programme will be jointly implemented by Romania, as Managing Authority, hosted by the Ministry of Development, Public Works and Administration and Hungary as National Authority, hosted by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade.
Between 17-18 May we had the pleasure to host the visit of our colleagues from the European Commission (EC), namely Mr. Pascal BOIJMANS, Head of Unit - Interreg, Cross-Border Cooperation, Internal Borders (DG Regio), and Ms. Anna-Monika MODZELEWSKA, our ROHU Programme’s desk officer.
In the context of the Strategic Environmental Assessment procedure, The Ministry of Development, Public Works and Administration, as Managing Authority of the Interreg VI-A Romania Hungary Programme, hereby notifies the interested public on the availability of the Interreg VI-A Romania – Hungary Programme, as well as on the related Environmental Report and Appropriate Assessment Report.
We are pleased to announce that the Programming Committee approved the Interreg VI-A Romania-Hungary Programme, during the 4th PC meeting held online on Tuesday, March 22nd, 2022.
❗Deadline for survey extended to September 20❗
The aim of the survey is to collect additional details from the perspective of the potential beneficiaries and former beneficiaries during projects’ preparation, motivations for future involvement as potential beneficiaries of the Programme 2021-2027 and, in particular, existing project ideas.
The new cohesion policy legislative package for the 2021-2027 period, adopted on 24.06.2021, has been published in the Official Journal of the European Union.
On Monday, June 14, 2021, the Programming Committee (PC) of the Interreg Programme between Romania and Hungary, for the period 2021-2027 approved the selection of the Policy Objectives (PO) and relevant Interreg Specific Objective (ISO) to be financed in the next programming period.
The Territorial Analysis (TA) is the strategic document based on which the future Interreg Programme between Romania and Hungary, for the period 2021-2027, is elaborated.
Between 19 - 23 October 2020, a series of 6 on-line consultation workshops have been organized, in the context of finalizing the Territorial Analysis, a strategic document elaborated under the programming process related to the future Interreg Programme between Romania and Hungary (2021-2027).
The programming experts, with the support of relevant Interreg V-A Romania-Hungary Programme’s structures, are organizing a series of consultation workshops, to involve in the programming exercise the most important actors in the Programme’s area.
Shaping the future of the cross-border cooperation between Romania and Hungary for the period 2021-2027 remains our main interest, and collecting information/opinions by public consultations is one of the methods which could ensure an efficient programming process.
Structures of the Interreg V-A RO-HU Programme, particularly representatives of the Managing Authority (Ministry of Public Works, Development and Administration, Romania), the National Authority (the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Hungary) and the Joint Secretariat (BRECO Oradea), gathered in Gyula (Hungary) for a brainstorming session on the technicalities for future programming process.
In the context of programming process, the Managing Authority of Interreg V-A Romania-Hungary Programme, with the support of National Authority, the Joint Secretariat and Information Points in Hungary, organized a new series of events, aiming at providing relevant information on the 5 Policy Objectives provided for in the draft regulations.
On Wednesday, November 13, 2019, the first meeting of the Programming Committee, the structure responsible for the strategic planning and programming of the Interreg Program between Romania and Hungary for the period 2021-2027, was held in Nyiregyhaza (Hungary). On Thursday, November 14, 2019, the 7th meeting of the Monitoring Committee for Interreg V-A Romania-Hungary Programme was held also, in Nyiregyhaza.
On February 14, 2019, the management structures of the Interreg V-A Romania-Hungary Programme met in Békéscsaba, Hungary, in the context of a first bilateral meeting, with the aim to initiate technical discussions on key topics regarding the future multiannual territorial cooperation framework.
