One of the major international lobbying and PR agencies recently published a guide to lobbying in Europe.

The NSRP 2007-2013 project Creative City Challenge has been chosen as a pilot project in the context of the European Year of Creativity and Innovation (EYCI) 2009.

An agreement between the North Sea states and the European Community of a framework for an action plan to combat pollution in the Greater North Sea came into action today.

At the recent stakeholder workshop, which took place in Durham 16 and 17 September, participants discussed ideas and suggestions regarding strategic perspectives for the remaining 2007-2013 Programme period.

The Project Life Cycle structures Programme information and documents along the different stages of a NSRP project. It is now available online.

Presentations from Lead Beneficiary Seminar No 3 in Antwerp are now available for download.

The new projects approved at Steering Committee No 4 in June are now presented in the project section of the Programme website.

The next Lead Beneficiary Seminar will take place on 29-30 September in Antwerp, Flanders.

An updated version of the Fact Sheets, the template for project contracts as well as the Manual on First Level Control including the appendices is now available online.

A list of all projects approved by Steering Committee meetings 1-4 and information about the allocation of funding is now available as a download.

Presentations from the Annual Conference 2009 as well as a short news reel from the event is now available online.

There have been important changes concerning regulations and contact information relevant for beneficiaries involved in a North Sea Region Programme 2007-2013 project.

The Steering Committee No 4 approved 14 project applications during the meeting on 9-10 June in Edinburgh. Seven of the 21 applications were rejected.

A collection of the presentations given at the Maritime Conference in Gothenburg, Sweden, is now available online. The conference was jointly organised by the Interreg IVA Öresund-Kattegat-Skagerrak Programme and the North Sea Region Programme.

Project developers and interested stakeholders can now sign up for meetings with the project ideas which will be represented at the Annual Conference 2009 in Egmond aan Zee/Haarlem, the Netherlands.

The Northern Periphery Programme Secretariat in Copenhagen is looking for two interns to assist with the organisation of the Annual Conference LAVA2009. Deadline for submitting applications is 8 June 2009.

9 May was Europe Day. According to EC Regulation 1828/2006, the managing authorities of projects involved in Interreg programmes are obliged to fly the European flag in front of their premises for one week starting 9 May.

It is still possible to register project ideas for the Partner Search at the Maritime Conference in Gothenburg. The deadline for having project ideas published in the Partner Search Book has been extended to 14 May.

Registration for the Maritime Conference in Gothenburg, Sweden, will officially close Thursday 30 April.

The deadline for registering project ideas for the Project Idea Book 2009 and the Partner Search Event at the Annual Conference will be extended to 30 April 2009.