A guide to European planning to allow the Third Sector, local authorities, businesses and citizens to find their way around EU funds. It is the “digital compass” promoted and conceived by the Crt Foundation with the adhesion of Acri and seven other Italian foundations (Fondazione Cariplo and the Cr Foundations Bolzano, Cuneo, Florence, Perugia, Verona, Trento and Rovereto) which can be consulted at link www.guidaeuroprogegneria.eu
One way to support participation in Pnrr calls in a country that traditionally ranks in the last places in Europe for “absorption capacity”. The execution of the NRP is in fact bound to particularly tight execution times: the funds will have to be committed for 70% by the end of 2022, for the remaining 30% by the end of 2023 and actually spent by the end of 2026.
“The PNRR is a historic opportunity, as long as it is able to be exploited and used to the fullest, to make the country evolve towards a more competitive, innovative, sustainable, fair and inclusive economic-social model – say the president of the Crt Foundation Giovanni Quaglia and the general secretary Massimo Lapucci -. The Foundations, including the Crt Foundation, are applying to be active players in this process, putting in place resources, planning and innovative tools such as the European Planning Guide, which increase the ‘capital’ of knowledge, skills and relationships for the present and the future of the Next Generation Eu ».