AEBR

Cross-border cooperation is an essential activity for border regions. Through collaboration, communities from both sides of the border transform the territory and promote the development of the area. AEBR works to initiate, support and coordinate cooperation between border regions in Europe.

BERRY+

The BERRY+ S3 partnership supports excellence-based processing of renewable natural resources and their side streams for high added value applications and ensuring access to market, through value chain collaborations among partner regions.

Covenant of Mayors

The Covenant of Mayors is the world's largest movement for local climate and energy actions, bringing together thousands of local governments voluntarily committed to implementing EU climate and energy objectives.

Europe Direct

EUROPE DIRECT Kainuu is member of the Europe Direct network in Finland, which in turn is part of a Europe-wide family of centres. The centres make Europe accessible to people on the ground and get them engage in debates on the future of the EU. The network is managed by the European Commission.

Mining Industry S3 Partnership

The focus of this partnership is on Mining industry, related industries and services and global value chains. The background for this partnership is in Interreg Europe project Remix and H2020 project MIREU. This partnership operationalises the work of these projects and shift the focus on inter-regional investments.

NEEBOR

NEEBOR aims to improve visibility of eastern border districts of the EU and to develop cooperation between actors of the area. The network operates in the spirit of good neighborhood relations and its main object is to carry out regional politics that is efficient and based on solidarity. NEEBOR also wants to increase the EU institutions’, regional authorities’ and local authorities’ consciousness of challenges and possibilities that these border districts have.

NSPA

Based on both common advantages and challenges, the regions of northern Finland, Norway and Sweden work together in the Northern Sparsely Populated Areas (NSPA) network. The 13 regions from the northernmost parts of the three countries share common circumstances and objectives and are working together to raise awareness of the NSPA in the EU institutions, to influence EU policy and to provide a platform for best practice.

Northern Dimension

The Northern Dimension (ND) policy refers to practical cooperation between the European Union, Russia, Norway and Iceland, initiated by Finland. It aims at providing a framework for stability, well-being and economic development in northern Europe.

Sport & Vitality

The Sport & Vitality partnership (ClusSport) aims to support EU regions committed to generate a pipeline of business investment projects in the sport & vitality sector. Following a bottom-up approach - implemented through inter-regional cooperation, cluster participation and business involvement as well as aligning specialization profiles of the partner regions.

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