Since last summer, the EURE regions partners are busy implementing their Action Plan to bring transformation at local level. Where do they currently stand? Are there already some visible improvements? EIXO ATLÁNTICO tells us more about the changes that started to appear in Spain following its EURE Action Plan.
Can you summarise your Action Plan in one or two sentences?
Our Action Plan encourages Municipal Authorities to define Urban Functional Areas formed by small villages and let them be beneficiaries for the financing programme addressed to integrated urban development.
What have you already implemented?
Yes, we implemented the two actions: The proposal about why and how to define the Urban Functional Areas and a workshop in which the document was presented to the Municipal Authorities and stakeholders.
Do you already have some first evaluation? How are the changes brought by the Action Plan welcomed by the local actors?
Yes and it is positive. It appears that in the present programming period, the financing instrument will allow that informal Urban Functional Areas of small villages without territorial continuity can be beneficiaries of funds for an integrated development strategy.
The project is finishing in a few months, do you already know if you will follow-up on the Action Plan? How?
We will do it as we plan follow-up closely the calls published under the programme addressed and encourage our members to define UFA as the way to better organize themselves and, at the same time, have the option to have access to urban development funds.
