The first of the seven regional meetings promoted by the Department for Cohesion and Southern Policies, and in collaboration with Eutalia, aimed at local authorities and aimed at the presentation of the territorial support services center (CST) and the AppCoe platform, two new organizational and digital infrastructures designed to support local authorities financed by the projects financed by Fesr, took place today. ESF+ and JTF.
For the Presidency of the Council of Ministers, the General Manager of the Office for the strengthening of the administrative capacity for cohesion policies and for the South, for the South Riccardo Monaco.
For the Calabria Region, the Councilor for Policies for Labor and Professional Training intervened, Giovanni Calabresethe management authority of the Calabria FESR FSE regional program+ 2021-27, Maurizio Nicolai, and the manager of Eua coordination of programs, strategic projects and institutional capacity, Francesco Venneri.
“Today – underlined Monaco – is the first of a series of meetings that we will do in the seven regions of the South as regards the support of technical assistance which, through this initiative, we will give to all recipients of the cohesion funds. An initiative designed and desired for local authorities, or the most fragile subjects in the institutional supply chain, which have a stronger need for technical assistance to carry out the projects included in the regional programs. For us fundamental to reduce the gap existing between South and North “.
“Also today – said Calabrian – the Calabria Region is in the center between Europe and the Municipalities. We are the whole of this important initiative through our programming department, the National Department for Cohesion Policies and the South, and Eutolia. It is an opportunity for local authorities in the awareness of the critical issues of the same, of which 80% are under 5 thousand inhabitants, with difficulty of having professionals in the staff and with important funding that are lost. Today thanks to this measure there is the possibility of counting on qualified technicians. A concrete step towards the needs of the territories “.
“Appcoe – explained Nicolai – is synonymous with strategy. For the first time we open a speech of complementarity and subsidiarity with respect to the local authorities for the implementation of cohesion policies. There has always been talk of gap of administrative capacity and to put the interventions on the ground: currently, with a national program of a billion and a half euros, we act by making this important system available to local administrations, of the main problems.
The initiative is subsidized in the field of priority 1 – Action 1.1 of the National Program for Cohesion 2021–2027 which provides for supporting research, development and innovation projects through the introduction of advanced and understanding technologies with the various research bodies.
An information and illustrative moment that has clarified the possibilities, for local authorities, to strengthen its administrative action, enhancing the opportunities provided and offered by European funds.
The Territorial Support Services Center (CST) is the promoter and intermediary of those assistance services useful to support and accompany the local authorities. Thanks to this tool, the entities involved will be facilitated in the realization of the greatest number of investments and interventions provided for by cohesion policies, as well as to improve the quality of life of citizens by benefiting from the services subject to each intervention.
The Appcoe is the platform that defines the concrete advancement in the digitization of administrative processes and referring to the use of European funds.
The event represented an indispensable moment of listening and comparison with the potential beneficiaries of regional programs, the opportunity to verify and share experiences, needs and proposals to improve CST offer and services effectively.
For more information, you can consult the website https://app.capcoe.gov.it or write to (email protected).