The Karelia ENPI CBC Programme provides a framework for continuing cross-border cooperation in 2007-2013, which was formerly pursued through the Interreg II and III A Karelia Programmes and the Euregio Karelia Neighbourhood Programme. Karelia ENPI is one of the three programmes to be implemented on the border between Finland and Russia.



The key objective of the programme is to strengthen cross-border cooperation in strategically important territories in the programme area and to provide preconditions for pursuing such cooperation in practise. The programme area covers Kainuu, North Karelia, Northern Ostrobothnia and the Republic of Karelia. The adjacent regions are Lappi and Pohjois-Savo in Finland and the city of St Petersburg and the areas of Leningrad, Murmansk and Archangel in Russia.