(ANSA) - BRUNICO, NOV 25 - "The recent approval of the Interreg VI-A Italy-Austria 2021-27 Program represents a further chapter in a long history of friendship and cooperation" and the driving force for "tackling difficult challenges ahead, creating the conditions for the development of an area that is fundamental for the future of the whole of Europe." FVG governor Massimiliano Fedriga said in a video message today at the launch event of the Interreg VI-A Italy-Austria 2021-27 Program, held today at the Lumen Forum in South Tyrol. The program prioritizes innovation, combating climate change, sustainable tourism, local development, and reducing cross-border obstacles and has a total budget of more than 91 m euros, 73 m of which will come from the European Regional Development Fund. The new program "will provide an opportunity for new actors to participate in building an efficiently interconnected territorial network, to face, with more strength, new challenges and see a new dawn rise after the pandemic winter," said FVG Councillor for Finance Barbara Zilli, who attended the event. (ANSA).