PE:Region Platform is financed by Interreg Deutschland-Denmark with 1.5 m euros from the European Regional Development Fund. Another 140,000 euro is granted by the Region of Southern Denmark.

The project must ensure that state-of-the-art knowledge is rooted in research environments on either side of the Danish-German border and that project results will be beneficial to local industry.

University of Southern Denmark (SDU) represented by the Mads Clausen Institute are lead partners of the Interreg 5a project PE:Region Platform. Project partners are located on both sides of the Danish-German border and besides SDU they encompass: Sønderborg Vækstråd, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel (CAU), Fachhochschule Kiel, FuE FH Kiel GmbH and WTSH.

Moreover, a number of Danish and German networking partners and industrial enterprises take part in the collaboration.