Norte, made real.
Norte keeps being paid to do one thing more than any other: generic productive investment in small and medium–sized enterprises (‘smes’). Here's the rest of its funded life.
The Norte region of Portugal, designated NUTS2: PT11, has seen considerable EU investment. From 2014 to 2026, 62,013 projects across the country were awarded a total of €14,260,002,858, indicating significant financial support.
Funding in Norte primarily supports generic productive investment in small and medium–sized enterprises, alongside research and innovation processes within these businesses. Significant resources are also allocated to improving the labour market relevance of education and training systems. The European Regional Development Fund and European Social Fund are key contributors to these efforts.
Funding in Norte has shown a clear decline in recent years. The last three years saw €2,357,132,143 awarded, a notable decrease from the €11,902,870,715 allocated in prior periods.
- · No largest projects were specified in the available data.
- · Funding is heavily concentrated in generic productive investment for SMEs.
- · The European Regional Development Fund provides the majority of project financing.
- · A significant share of funding was disbursed in earlier periods.
- Generic productive investment in small and medium–sized enterprises (‘SMEs’)39,437 · €2.7B
- Research and innovation processes in SMEs (including voucher schemes, process, design, service and social innovation)2,175 · €143.8M
- Improving the labour market relevance of education and training systems, facilitating the transition from education to work, and strengthening vocational education and training systems and their quality, including through mechanisms for skills anticipation, adaptation of curricula and the establishment and development of work-based learning systems, including dual learning systems and apprenticesh1,862 · €1.2B
- Advanced support services for SMEs and groups of SMEs (including management, marketing and design services)1,806 · €565.0M
- Community-led local development strategies1,369 · €109.9M
- Adaptation of workers, enterprises and entrepreneurs to change1,330 · €184.9M
- ERDF51,336 · €9.9B
- ESF7,590 · €2.3B
- ESF+2,433 · €1.1B
- CF636 · €933.8M
- JTF18 · €49.8M
- Autoridade de Gestão do Programa Operacional Competitividade e Internacionalização (estrutura de missão de acordo com o disposto no DL 137/2014, de 12 de setembro)40,786 · €3.8B
- Estrutura de missão criada pelo Decreto-Lei n.º 137/2014 que funciona junto da CCDR Norte11,732 · €4.4B
- Autoridade de Gestão do Programa Operacional Capital Humano3,243 · €1.4B
- Autoridade de Gestão do Programa Operacional Inclusão Social e Emprego1,133 · €374.6M
- Estrutura com a natureza jurídica de estrutura de missão, criada pelo Decreto-Lei n.º 137/ 2014 de 12 de setembro624 · €733.4M
No CORDIS projects surfaced for this region right now. The MCP signal may not yet index every NUTS2.
Fly forward · postcard from Norte
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