Urban Regeneration in Tuscany – Public Call for Municipalities

Urban regeneration: great news coming!

The Tuscany Region has allocated over 5 million euros to reorganize and requalify the existing building heritage and public spaces, the degraded or abandoned urban areas of small villages in the territory, and the requalification of connections with surrounding urban fabrics in order to improve the quality of urban decorum and the social and environmental fabric.

How does it work? What is it about?

Tuscany, funding for Municipalities: who can participate?

The call, approved with decree 10226 of June 8, 2021, is aimed at Tuscan municipalities with a population under 15,000 inhabitants to increase the attractiveness of urban contexts through projects to relaunch the urban and social fabric, from the center to the suburbs.

Each Municipality, declaring its commitment to co-finance the intervention for at least 20% of the total cost, has the right to request contributions for a single intervention, up to a maximum limit of 800,000 euros.

Which interventions will be funded?

• Reuse and functional reorganization of existing public building structures and areas for purposes of public interest;

• Improvement of the quality of urban decorum and the social and environmental fabric;

• Enhancement of the green system, improvement of environmental sustainability, biodiversity, and ecological networks, which can be combined with routes for sustainable mobility;

• Reduction of marginalization and social degradation phenomena;

• Public urban regeneration interventions also within projects involving private entities.

Methods and deadlines for submitting the application

Municipalities with a population under 15,000 inhabitants intending to access the contribution provided by the call must submit an application no later than September 24, 2021, using the specific form in Annex A1- Application form downloadable here.