A public entity of the Regional Government of Cantabria devoted to guide, advise and support regional public bodies to strengthen and promote their capabilities through EU funding programmes.

OPE plays a key role in terms of European collaboration, participating actively throughout the whole process of accessing EU competitive grants and contracts to local and regional entities of our region.

One of key areas of OPE is Citizen Participation projects and initiatives: the entity was in charge of implementation of pilot deliberative process, the first Jury Citizens' implemented at regional level, with the support of OECD and European Commision to allocate the ERDF and ESF 2021-2027 for Besaya basin.