Italia-Croatia

Capitalisation is the process of building on what already exists while ensuring that new outputs – and more broadly results – have the potential and the right conditions to be transferred and re-used to create lasting impact.

It means, on the one hand, learning from past cooperation, but also ensuring that your project’s outputs remain accessible, validated, suitable, and of interest for re-use by others in the future – ultimately supporting their uptake and integration into broader policies, strategies, and practices.

Capitalisation matters because cooperation creates greater value when knowledge and results do not start from zero and do not end with the project.
The Italy–Croatia Programme encourages projects to build on previous results — from the Programme itself, other Interreg initiatives, and beyond — and to design outputs that can be transferred and re-used in different contexts.
This way, duplication is avoided, impact is amplified, and every euro invested in cross-border cooperation goes further, generating benefits that last beyond the project lifetime.

Capitalisation begins within projects. They should identify their main thematic outputs, assess their potential for transfer and re-use, and involve potential re-users (“takers”) directly in the output development process, thus making these outputs genuinely attractive and suitable for real uptake by others.
In this process, the Italy–Croatia Programme supports projects through the Results Dashboard, which increases the visibility, accessibility, and potential for wider re-use of validated outputs across the cooperation area, and beyond.
For further guidance, projects can refer to the Programme’s Capitalisation Strategy and Plan.