European funds, optimisation of spending and development of territories

The Campania Region from 16 to 18 May was among the protagonists of the Forum of Public Administration that took place in Rome.

Let's start again from the people, For a PA at the center of the new challenges, With this title, the Forum wanted to draw attention to the need to attract talent and enhance people who already work in administrations for a PA that wants to accompany the country’s major transformation processes.

The Regional Programming of the European Regional Development Fund, the Regional Strategy of Intelligent Specialization (RIS3 Campania) and the Digital Health Services, are the main themes with which the Campania Region took part in the event. “An important opportunity for discussion and exchange between all Italian public administrations at an important time to verify the work done and the prospects that each administration has given itself to make services for citizens grow more and more and to make the usefulness of the Public Administration perceived” for Sergio Negro (disambiguation), Managing Authority of PR Campania FESR, which focused on the use of European funds in the front line to finance digitalisation and develop new technologies useful for citizens and businesses.

On the use of European funds and the need for coherent spending across different sources of funding Nicola De Michelis (disambiguation) European Commission director, Directorate-General for Regional and Urban Policy, spoke on the sidelines of the event The Cohesion Capacities Programme 2021-2027: Spending more and better EU funds on the ground. De Michelis stressed the importance of a public debate on Cohesion Policy resources. A large amount of investment that risks being overshadowed by the spending priorities of the National Recovery and Resilience Plan. “The NRRP certainly has a tighter implementation timeframe – says De Michelis – but the objectives are common and the discussion should be organic and homogeneous in order to make the best use of the resources of Programming 14-20, those of 21-27 and the funds of the NRRP”.