Strategic Harmonization and Advanced Reporting for Policy Enhancement and Insights

Acronym: SHARPEI
Framework: Interreg Europe
Duration of the project: 01.05.2025. - 31.07.2029.

Aim of the project:

The SHARPEI project aims to enhance the efficiency and impact of Cohesion Policy and regional programme management. By integrating advanced data-driven decision-making and AI technologies, SHARPEI improves daily operations, strategic planning, monitoring, and evaluation – ultimately supporting better resource allocation and reducing regional disparities.
The project brings together partners from Italy, Sweden, Portugal, France, Belgium, Spain, Hungary, and Estonia, creating a strong foundation for interregional learning and experience exchange. Each partner plays a key role across the project’s stages, focusing on context analysis, sharing good practices, engaging stakeholders through thematic workshops, staff exchanges, and study visits.
SHARPEI follows three main strategic paths – efficiency, accountability, and forecasting – supported by a horizontal component: the Cybersecurity, Reliability, and Compliance Backbone. This ensures that data and AI usage meet the highest standards of security and legal compliance across the EU.
 
Project partners:

• Emilia-Romagna Region (Italy)
• Region Västerbotten (Sweden)
• Cohesion and Development Agency (Portugal)
• Normandy Regional Council (France)
• Province of Antwerp (Belgium)
• Ministry of the Economy and Finance, Generalitat de Catalunya (Spain)
• Pannon Business Network Association (Hungary)
• State Shared Service Centre (Estonia)

Activity of PBN:

PBN plays an active role in driving innovation and digital transformation in Hungary’s Western Transdanubian region. In the SHARPEI project, PBN contributes by identifying and sharing good practices related to the use of advanced data and AI-based decision support tools. Through its involvement in interregional knowledge exchange, PBN helps to improve regional programme management and policy efficiency.
 
Budget in Euro:
Project overall budget: 1,856,470 €
ERDF funding:1,485,176.00 €
 
Project homepage: https://www.interregeurope.eu/sharpei 
Program homepage: https://www.interregeurope.eu/
Project manager: Virág  Szuák (virag.szuak@pbn.hu)
 

'The project is realized in the Interreg Europe program with the cofinancing of the European Union and Hungary'