URBACT III It is a European Territorial Cooperation program (C.T.E.) co-funded by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) and Member States, born with the aim of promoting sustainable urban development through the exchange of experience and dissemination of knowledge between European cities.
Italian cities are among the main participants of the URBACT program at European level. In the various editions of the program dozens of cities they have taken part in exchange activities promoted by the URBACT program, thanks to which they were promoted local plans to promote sustainable urban development in economic terms, environmental and social.
In the framework of the Program URBACT III The tender was open for the creation of thematic networks for planning actions.
Le thematic networks for planning actions are networks bringing together cities that have similar problems at the urban level so that they can help in the development of action strategies for urban development plans or integrated pointing to an organized process of exchange and peer learning in order to improve local policies through appropriate planning process,it.
The networks consist mainly of city, then public authority representing cities / municipalities, administrative levels infra-municipal districts such as citizens or neighborhoods, metropolitan authorities and organized agglomerations but also non-city partners, category that includes local agency, provincial authorities, regional and national, università, research centers but not city-partners to be eligible must be public authorities or public equivalent bodies.
The notice aims to select 15 networks.
The themes on which you can create networks shooting 10 Thematic objectives of Cohesion Policy:
- strengthen research, technological development and innovation
- improve access, the use and quality of ICT
- improve the competitiveness of SMEs
- support the transition towards a low-carbon economy in all sectors
- promote adaptation to climate change, prevention and risk management
- protecting the environment and promoting resource efficiency
- promoting sustainable transport and removing bottlenecks in key network infrastructures
- promote employment and worker mobility
- promoting social inclusion and combating poverty
- invest in education, in skills and lifelong learning, developing education and training infrastructure
The call is addressed the European Union cities and also includes those of Switzerland and Norway who have already developed an action plan or an integrated strategy to address a specific urban development challenge and obtained funding to implement such strategy or action plan. The proponent It must be a city of one of the 28 Member states, or of the partner countries (Norway and Switzerland). The partnership network should consist of minimum 7 and maximum 9 city of at least 3 eligible countries. Partnerships are the cornerstone of the implementation of URBACT networks and so much attention should be paid to maintain the necessary balance between partners, doing so in partnership are present cities of the less developed regions.
a tool is provided on the program's website partner search through which the cities wishing to start a network can signal their interest while those who simply want to be part of it can see the proposals. A city can not, however, be a partner of more than two networks.
Projects must have a maximum duration of 30 mesi, articulated in two phases: a first step of 6 months for the development of the proposed network and a second step of 24 months for the implementation of all activities provided by the network. for first phase The partnership should include 4/6 city of at least 3 States / partner countries and least 2 cities of the less developed regions. If the proposal passes the first stage network, in second phase the partnership will expand to include 8/12 of at least partners 3 States / Partner Countries, almeno 4 partners must be in the less developed regions, and comprise up to a maximum of 3 non-city partner.
The total budget (from ERDF funds) available to every single network is comprised between 600.000 e 750.000 euro depending on the number of partners, with an additional budget of 127.500 euro per expertise esterna.
The percentage of cofinanziamento FESR varies for each network selected depending on the location of the partner cities: 85% costs for cities from less developed regions and transition regions, 70% for cities from more developed regions. Le Swiss cities and Norwegian They may be covered at 50%dei costi da fondi nazionali.
The deadline for submitting nominations for the first phase is the 22 giugno 2016, ore 15 (Central European Time).
Fonte: internet (www.europegarage.it)
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