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Representativeness of keep.eu data

Keep.eu has extensive data on projects, programmes and partners of Territorial Cooperation involving the European Union, since 2000. And it adds more by the minute, even though updates to this page only come once a day, after close of business.

This page provides an understanding of how much keep.eu covers the universe of Interreg programmes, projects and partners – and also how many projects publish output documents and how many of these have their documents featured in keep.eu.

The charts and base figures show how representative keep.eu is overall. The Excel exports contain how each single field is represented, both at programme-type and at programme levels. An important note in connection with this: Fields with very little text are a real challenge for language detection, which may lead to errors.

The FAQ entry on data contains important information regarding the full array of data, their meaning, concepts pertaining to data in keep.eu, processes, among many other issues that provide a solid understanding of data in keep.eu.

Important dates to understand keep.eu’s representativeness

  • 2024-03-15, last addition of projects or partnerships to the keep.eu database.
  • 2024-02-27, latest counting of projects/partnerships from all programmes’ websites.
  • 2024-05-31, foreseen next counting of projects/partnerships from all programmes’ websites.

Projects in keep.eu versus the sector (%)

The chart compares the number of projects in the database with the overall number of actual projects. The latter is collected manually from all the Interreg programmes’ websites every three months. Be sure to check the dates on the top-right side of this page to understand when the last count was and when the next one will be.

Important note: Keep.eu focuses on contracted projects. Representativeness per project thus shows, as much as possible, how many contracted projects there are in keep.eu versus overall. However, some programmes show on their websites the number of approved projects only. In these cases, representativeness is reckoned with the number of approved projects in the denominator. We thus tend to show an apparent representativeness rate of keep.eu somewhat below the real one.

Furthermore, to refer to the figures feeding the chart, click the link right below it. For full detail on the representativeness of each project field (per programme type and down to programme), use the Export to Excel button (button to the right of this text, temporarily disabled for technical reasons on 2023-03-16).

– Show base figures –
Programme type/programming period 2000-2006 2007-2013 2014-2020 2021-2027 All programming periods
In keep.eu Overall % In keep.eu Overall % In keep.eu Overall % In keep.eu Overall % In keep.eu Overall %
Cross-border (internal) 4 713 7 159 66% 6 594 7 057 93% 5 445 5 625 97% 475 1 379 34% 17 227 21 220 81%
Transnational 723 723 100% 973 973 100% 1 305 1 323 99% 239 605 40% 3 240 3 624 89%
Interregional 363 363 100% 333 333 100% 411 415 99% 102 188 54% 1 209 1 299 93%
Cross-border (neighbouring) 828 939 88% 1 068 1 070 100% 940 940 100% 0 23 0% 2 836 2 972 95%
Outermost regions 201 253 79% 197 285 69% 401 402 100% 0 0 100% 799 940 85%
Cross-border (pre-accession) 675 799 84% 633 802 79% 779 784 99% 2 53 4% 2 089 2 438 86%
Total 7 503 10 236 73% 9 798 10 520 93% 9 281 9 489 98% 818 2 248 36% 27 400 32 493 84%

 

No. of non-Interreg projects part of EU macro-regional strategies featured in keep.eu: 440
No. of non-Interreg IPA cross-border projects featured in keep.eu:  62
Total no. of projects featured in keep.eu: 27 902

Partnerships in keep.eu versus the sector (%)

The chart compares the number of partnerships in the database with the overall number of actual partnerships in Interreg. This is collected from all the Interreg programmes’ websites every three months. Be sure to check the dates on the top-right side of this page to understand when the last count was and when the next one will be.

Furthermore, to refer to the figures feeding the chart, click the link right below it. For full detail on the representativeness of each partner field (per programme type and down to programme), use the Export to Excel button (button to the right of this text, temporarily disabled for technical reasons on 2023-03-16).

– Show base figures –
Programme type/programming period 2000-2006 2007-2013 2014-2020 2021-2027 All programming periods
In keep.eu Overall % In keep.eu Overall % In keep.eu Overall % In keep.eu Overall % In keep.eu Overall %
Cross-border (internal) 12 359 22 458 55% 24 227 27 835 87% 26 834 29 317 92% 752 6 799 11% 64 172 86 409 74%
Transnational 8 189 8 189 100% 10 438 10 438 100% 11 971 12 054 99% 1 780 5 251 34% 32 378 35 932 90%
Interregional 3 473 3 473 100% 3 184 3 184 100% 3 150 3 171 99% 102 1 495 7% 9 909 11 323 88%
Cross-border (neighbouring) 2 458 2 862 86% 4 525 4 525 100% 3 647 3 654 100% 0 60 0% 10 630 11 101 96%
Outermost regions 791 863 92% 583 1 108 53% 401 1 950 21% 0 0 100% 1 775 3 921 45%
Cross-border (pre-accession) 2 935 4 402 67% 1 905 2 357 81% 2 241 2 405 93% 9 245 4% 7 090 9 409 75%
Total 30 205 42 247 71% 44 862 49 447 91% 48 244 52 551 92% 2 643 13 850 19% 125 954 158 095 80%

 

No. of non-Interreg partnerships part of EU macro-regional strategies featured in keep.eu: 520
No. of non-Interreg IPA cross-border project partnerships featured in keep.eu:  171
Total no. of partnerships featured in keep.eu: 126 645

 


Keep.eu contains information on ALL Interreg programmes since 2000. Programme data representativeness is thus 100%.

What the chart compares is the number of programmes featuring projects in the database with the overall number of existing Interreg programmes (IPA-IPA cross-border programmes are not included in this reckoning, since the goal is, for these programmes’ projects, to show in keep.eu a qualitatively, as opposed to quantitatively, representative set).

Since one of the four interregional programmes (Interact, the programme that manages keep.eu) does not work with projects, it is not included in the overall count of programmes. For this reason, the figures in the chart and table below, and in general for the purposes of representativeness of keep.eu, consider only three interregional programmes.

To refer to the figures feeding the chart, click the link right below it. For full detail on the project and partner representativeness per programme type and per programme, use the Export to Excel button (button to the right of this text, temporarily disabled for technical reasons on 2023-03-16).

– Show base figures –
Programme type/programming period 2000-2006 2007-2013 2014-2020 2021-2027 All programming periods
In keep.eu Overall % In keep.eu Overall % In keep.eu Overall % In keep.eu Overall % In keep.eu Overall %
Cross-border (internal) 46 46 100% 53 53 100% 54 54 100% 20 48 42% 173 201 86%
Transnational 8 8 100% 10 10 100% 12 12 100% 8 13 62% 38 43 88%
Interregional 7 7 100% 3 3 100% 3 3 100% 2 3 67% 15 16 94%
Cross-border (neighbouring) 10 10 100% 13 13 100% 15 15 100% 0 5 0% 38 43 88%
Outermost regions 3 3 100% 3 4 75% 5 6 83% 0 4 0% 11 17 65%
Cross-border (pre-accession) 8 8 100% 8 8 100% 10 10 100% 1 10 10% 27 36 75%
Total 82 82 100% 90 91 99% 99 100 99% 31 83 37% 302 356 85%

 

No. of non-Interreg IPA cross-border programmes with projects featured in keep.eu:   17
Total no. of programmes featured in keep.eu: 319

Documents featured in keep.eu and projects surveyed for documents

Starting in the 2014-2020 period, the keep.eu team has been collecting output documents on the projects featured in the keep.eu database. The goal is to preserve and aggregate the wealth of knowledge and expertise gained by the sector’s projects.

It is not possible to precisely reckon how representative our library is, hence we use a proxy, featured in the chart and table below. For instance, many projects produce no thematic documents, or very few, whereas others produce a large number of documents. This doesn’t mean that the former projects do not deliver (document production is mainly a result of a project’s nature, goals, and method). But it means that representativeness will tend to skew negatively.

The chart and table below (and the Excel export to the right, temporarily disabled for technical reasons on 2023-03-16) should thus only be used as an imperfect gauge of keep.eu’s progress in collecting documents, per programme. Uses beyond that are a misuse of its nature.

Important to know about the process: The keep.eu team collects documents in rounds, each round covering all the programmes with data in keep.eu. It started with the programmes whose first projects closed the earliest. Documents are collected only for projects that closed at least six months beforehand. Regarding videos, only those in Youtube or Vimeo are embedded in keep.eu. Lastly, in case a transnational project lists the same document in different language editions, only the one in English (or, in the lack thereof, in French or German) is uploaded to keep.eu. For more information about this process, please refer to the FAQ on Documents.