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Working Better Together in a Team Europe Approach

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Last Updated: 05 December 2025
A tool to help EU Delegations work better together with Member States as Team Europe and with like-minded partners and country stakeholders, through Team Europe Initiatives, joint programming and joint implementation.

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1.2 Overview of Team Europe approach

Actors following a Team Europe approach are the EU, its Member States and their diplomatic network, finance institutions and implementing agencies, as well as the EIB and the EBRD.

The TE approach is a way of strengthening coordination, coherence and complementarities of actions to scale up European impact and raise Europe as partner of reference. In the process of jointly designing TEIs, TEI members are in line with the Council Conclusions of 23 April 2021. Showing progress against the expected results, including the transformative impact of TEIs and the added value of the Team Europe approach will be crucial.

The design of the TEIs is a balancing act of flexible cooperation arrangements between TEI members and the need to have a minimum common frame that keeps the TEI together. This common frame is envisaged as an overarching joint intervention logic for the TEI and its associated results.

It should be noted that the Global Gateway will be developed and delivered mainly through Team Europe Initiatives, which makes the reporting on TEIs’ results all the more relevant.

Updated information on TEIs can be found on the Team Europe Initiatives and joint programming Tracker and on Team Europe C4D TEI Frequently Asked Questions.