In the next funding period 2014 - 2020 the two existing programme areas Syddanmark-Schleswig-KERN and the Fehmarnbeltregion will be merged into one – which is an additional challenge for the development of the future programme strategy. The ex-ante evaluation serves to check in a collaborative process, whether the planned measures correspond to the needs, whether they are planned as feasible, and whether the desired effects are actually achievable. DSN has together with COWI (Copenhagen) been awarded with the contract.