A 2.5 million euro call for companies
20/08/2021
The Region returns to invest in the Apennines by activating, for the first time, a dedicated measure: a new tender that makes available to companies - new or existing - the first 2.5 million euros for redevelopment, restructuring, purchase and recovery of production facilities and spaces, or for investments in machinery, equipment and plants. With a privileged lane for those that will result in new employment. An innovative measure that is part of a framework of strong commitment by the Region - from the call for housing for young couples to the IRAP cut - to support the growth and development processes of mountain areas, bridging the distances between the center and the periphery. More modern and efficient companies and companies that give work. The announcement approved in the last session by the Regional Council moves along these two tracks and allocates 2.5 million euros from which new businesses or those present in a mountain municipality of Emilia-Romagna can benefit. All production sectors are admitted, excluding the primary sector. The grants - non-repayable and to the extent of 70% of eligible expenditure - are related to three types of intervention: redevelopment, renovation and / or expansion of buildings and structures in which the entrepreneur already carries out his business; purchase, redevelopment, renovation and / or extension of abandoned buildings and structures, in which the beneficiary undertakes to carry out its business; investments in machinery, equipment and related plants. The total contribution for each company may not exceed the maximum amount of 150 thousand euros, while the minimum expenditure for the contribution must not be less than 25 thousand euros. Applications must be submitted from 19 July to 16 September 2021. a 2.5 million euro call for companies The Region returns to invest in the Apennines by activating, for the first time, a dedicated measure: a new tender that makes available to companies - new or existing - the first 2.5 million euros for redevelopment, restructuring, purchase and recovery of production facilities and spaces, or for investments in machinery, equipment and plants. With a privileged lane for those that will result in new employment. An innovative measure that is part of a framework of strong commitment by the Region - from the call for housing for young couples to the IRAP cut - to support the growth and development processes of mountain areas, bridging the distances between the center and the periphery. More modern and efficient companies and companies that give work. The announcement approved in the last session by the Regional Council moves along these two tracks and allocates 2.5 million euros from which new businesses or those present in a mountain municipality of Emilia-Romagna can benefit. All production sectors are admitted, excluding the primary sector. The grants - non-repayable and to the extent of 70% of eligible expenditure - are related to three types of intervention: redevelopment, renovation and / or expansion of buildings and structures in which the entrepreneur already carries out his business; purchase, redevelopment, renovation and / or extension of abandoned buildings and structures, in which the beneficiary undertakes to carry out its business; investments in machinery, equipment and related plants. The total contribution for each company may not exceed the maximum amount of 150 thousand euros, while the minimum expenditure for the contribution must not be less than 25 thousand euros. Applications must be submitted from 19 July to 16 September 2021. Fundamental chapter of the announcement are the rewards, used to direct regional funding towards those interventions which, due to their characteristics, are believed to have a more significant impact on the territory. The projects will in fact be evaluated on the basis of their technical quality and their economic and financial quality, to which is added a series of reward scores linked to the employment impact and the place where the company (or production unit) is based. These bonuses are attributed according to the number of inhabitants, the altitude of the municipal area and a further parameter that simultaneously evaluates the demographic, social and economic fragility. An all-round commitment with which the Region has put the revitalization of the Apennine territories at the center of its policies. Among the most recent measures: the 20 million euros from which 700 young couples and families benefited for the purchase (or renovation) of a house and the intervention for the "IRAP cut": the abatement of this setting with a progressivity of up to 100%, in addition to zeroing for three years for the realities of new settlement which in the two-year period 2019-2020 benefited over 13 thousand companies, artisans, shops. And again, the "Extraordinary program for the territories affected by the pandemic and mountain and inland areas" which allocated 14.7 million euros for investments in the Apennine territories of the provinces of Parma, Reggio Emilia, Modena, Bologna, Forlì-Cesena, Ravenna and for the inland areas of the Lower Ferrara area (the provinces of Piacenza, Rimini and the Municipality of Medicine, in the Bologna area, had been assigned a specific plan, since they were the areas most affected by the first wave of the pandemic). Resources from the regional budget to cover up to 95% of the cost of the intervention and support the restart of areas which, due to their geographical, physical, socio-economic characteristics, risk paying a particularly high price to the pandemic.
