The platform for regional development in Switzerland

New Regional Policy (NRP)

With the New Regional Policy (NRP) both the federal government and the cantons support mountain and border regions as well as rural areas in coping with changes in economic structures. This includes improving hard and soft locational factors of a region as well as promoting innovation, the creation of value and competitiveness in a sustainable way. In doing so, the NRP contributes to creating and maintaining jobs in the targeted areas and thus indirectly to evening out regional disparities and maintaining the decentralised settlement structures in Switzerland.

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Another component of the NRP is the cross-border, transnational and interregional cooperation in line with the European Territorial Cooperation (ETC).

Financial instruments and measures within the framework of the NRP

The NRP focuses on financial support for initiatives, projects and programmes that contribute to innovation, value creation and competitiveness in different regions. The NRP also promotes European territorial cooperation in line with the programmes Interreg, ESPON, URBACT and INTERACT. (Foto: Titelbild: Zigorio / pixelio.de)

Implementation process

The cantons are essential stakeholders for the conceptualisation, funding and implementation of the NRP. They develop cantonal or supra-cantonal implementation programmes for a period of four years. The programmes specify the cantons’ objectives and strategies for regional development.

Priorities

The NRP focuses on entrepreneurship, innovation and value creation.

Projects

The New Regional Policy of the federal government promotes projects improving innovation, value creation and competitiveness in mountain, border and rural regions. What are these projects exactly? Where are they being realised? What are the challenges, what are the success factors? The NRP project database provides you with answers: it lists various projects launched within the framework of the NRP and Interreg. NOTE: This database is not exhaustive.