20.11.2025
Meeting newsletter of the Secretariat of the Provincial Cooperation Group 19.11.2025
A Renewable and Skilled Finland 2021-2027: Upcoming searches and search status
MYRS reviewed the upcoming project applications. The ELY Centre for Northern Finland will open an ESF+ funding call for specific objective 4.1 as the EURA information system allows it. The JTF's call for applications for promoting employment and skills will also be opened at the beginning of the year.
In the Regional Council of Northern Ostrobothnia, the JTF funding call will be opened in early 2026, and the ERDF call is expected to open in late spring 2026.
Operating environment development grant application in Northern Ostrobothnia 1.9. – On 31 October 2025, nine applications for approximately EUR 1.9 million were received. By the end of October, one application for support of EUR 90 300 has been received for the ongoing JTF application for restoration and reuse. By the end of September, 17 applications for JTF projects, related to employment and skills, were received in Northern Ostrobothnia. They applied for a total amount of EUR 4 550 945.
The call for projects for environmental investments of general interest under the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD) ended in October 2025. There were two applications.
The Secretariat of the Provincial Cooperation Group supported four projects to be funded under the Renewable and Skilled Finland 2021-2027 programme
At its meeting, the Secretariat of the Provincial Cooperation Group discussed five projects, four of which received a favourable opinion and one received a negative opinion. The projects have been presented to the secretariat of the Provincial Cooperation Group Protocol.
Next meeting
The next meeting of the secretariat of the Provincial Cooperation Group will be held on 17 December 2025 at 9 a.m.
Additional information:
Development Specialist Heikki Laukkanen, 050 918 0035
