ANCONA – Redevelop the villages of the Marche by relaunching tourist and economic activities to promote their development. The Marche Region puts a tender worth around 24 million euros on the table after the approval of the Borghi Law. The “Welcoming Village” tender is in fact the central intervention of the “village strategy” which aims to finance projects to create a driving circuit of excellence for the entire regional system. Of the total, 9.5 million are regional funds and 15 million come from the Revolving Fund, and are part of a larger allocation which also includes various lines of intervention and reserves in European tenders, for a total of over 100 million euros, he explains the region.
The projects will have to give new life to the socio-economic fabric of the villages with interventions for the redevelopment and valorisation of public spaces and services and with projects and measures for the promotion and activation of entrepreneurial and commercial initiatives, particularly in the tourism sector. All to create development dynamics and employment impacts on the territory. The call is dedicated to the Municipalities to build a unitary and coherent project, with strong identity value, which includes both interventions with a public beneficiary and measures to benefit the economic activities of the village with public-private strategies identified through the public intermediate planning. The granting of a contribution up to a maximum of 500,000 euros for projects presented by the Municipality in single form or up to a limit of one million for the project presented by a network of Municipalities through the lead Municipality (for the benefit of a maximum of three Municipalities, in reference to a maximum of three villages. The call opens on 7 May and will be open until 20 September at 12pm, a “wide” period of time, underlines the Region, “to give the beneficiaries the opportunity to explore the opportunities and allow the organization of the best strategies and partnerships for the success of the initiative”.
