How Interreg / PEACE PLUS works cross-border

Interreg is not one programme. Ireland has €293m to spread across every European Territorial Cooperation programme it takes part in, and PEACE PLUS takes €235m of that. The rest is small and easy to miss: North West Europe €32.77m, Northern Periphery & Arctic €13.15m, Atlantic Area €13m. If your project is cross-border but is not about Northern Ireland, those three are where to look. Post-Brexit a "Group of Auditors" keeps both Irish and UK/NI audit representation, and SEUPB acts as MA, Certifying Authority and Joint Secretariat for PEACE PLUS.

ERDF (Interreg)Reg. (EU) 2021/1059Ireland ETC allocation: €293m (2021–2027)

How the money reaches an organisation

Every level here can be asked for its own process map. That is the point of yours.

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European Commission / ERDF

Ireland ETC allocation €293m under Reg. (EU) 2021/1059 — PEACE PLUS €235m, North West Europe €32.77m, Northern Periphery & Arctic €13.15m, Atlantic Area €13m

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Irish Dept. of Public Expenditure + NI Dept. of Finance

Joint national authorities; co-sign Financing Agreement; provide co-financing

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SEUPB — Managing Authority, Certifying Authority & Joint Secretariat

Cross-border GFA body; certifies all expenditure claims to the European Commission

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Intermediate Bodies: Pobal (Change Maker) · East Border Region

Pobal distributes up to €100k community grants under the €40m Change Maker Fund

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Lead Partners — Local Councils & County Councils

Manage Local Action Plans across 17 local authority areas

👉 Your organisation sits at this level

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Community & Voluntary Orgs, NGOs, Health, Education Bodies

Deliver cross-border and cross-community projects with a peace/reconciliation dimension

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Final Beneficiaries

Border communities: NI + Cavan, Donegal, Leitrim, Louth, Monaghan, Sligo

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Audit Chain

ECA → OLAF → NI DoF Audit Authority + Group of Auditors (DoF Ireland) → SEUPB → Lead Partners → NGOs

Process maps under this programme

Interreg — Cross-Border CooperationTo pay for work that only makes sense across a border — so that two organisations in two countries can solve a shared problem neither could solve alone.

Where this came from

Parliamentary Question on EU Funding — Ireland’s European Territorial Cooperation allocation — Houses of the Oireachtas, 29 February 2024

Read against the source on 2026-09-02.

What that check changed: This entry was a second copy of PEACE PLUS, down to the same budget. It now shows Ireland’s actual €293m ETC allocation and the three smaller programmes inside it.