Active aging and good health, the Notice for ETS and University of the Third Age has been published. Applications open from 3 to 18 May – REGION PRESS

The public notice for the implementation of projects aimed at promoting and enhancing active aging and good health was approved and published on the BURP.

The Notice is part of the regional planning for the promotion of active aging, provided for by law 16/2019 and the V Plan of Social Policies 2022/2024. The implementation of the interventions is entrusted to A.Re.SS Puglia, identified as the implementing body for the 2024 year.

The Notice aims to enhance the role of elderly people to promote solidarity, cooperation between generations, participation in social, civil, economic and cultural life, encouraging the construction of paths for autonomy and psychophysical well-being, economic and social, within the life contexts of the elderly.

The available resources are equal to €450,000.00 and the maximum public contribution recognized for a single project proposal cannot exceed €8,000.00.

There are three lines of intervention promoted by the Notice: sport and leisure; civil commitment and volunteering; social promotion, work and lifelong learning.

The Notice is addressed to Third Sector Bodies registered in the Single National Register of the Third Sector and to Third Age Universities registered in the regional Register of UTEs.

Each candidate may present only one project proposal concerning a maximum of 2 lines of activity among those envisaged in the Notice and which nevertheless guarantee uniqueness and coherence to the whole.

Each proposal can only be financed if attended by a minimum of fifteen people who are at least 65 years of age.

Applications can be sent from 3 May 2024 until 1.00 pm on 18 May 2024.

The application can be submitted exclusively by PEC, to the following address of the A.Re.SS Puglia: areasocialesanitaria@pec.rupar.puglia.it.

The new Notice will be presented to the audience of interested parties during an event scheduled for Monday 22 April 2024, in Bari, in rooms A and B of the regional headquarters in via Gentile.