INTEGRA

Transition toward sustainable development, as envisioned by the UN Agenda 2030 and the EU Green Deal, calls for integrated place-based approaches to mobilise actors at all levels of government and to ensure fair transformation and a future for all regions. Territorial tools, within and beyond European Cohesion Policy, can play a role in this direction orienting action and investment to address local needs aligned with the European and global challenges and ensuring that the transition do not harm territorial cohesion.
Even under the common framework of the Regulation 1060/2021 laying down common provisions on the Cohesion Policy Funds, there is an extremely rich variety of experiences across the EU on the use of territorial tools. In addition, there is recognised need to further improve current practices of planning and implementing territorial tools to make them more oriented to challenges, more transformative and, in the end, more impactful.
The INTEGRA Project aims at building capacities to improve the design and management of territorial tools to enhance their untapped potential for the implementation of the twin transition (green and digital) at local level, building strategically oriented transformative agendas for sustainable development.
The Project will be carried out by 8 Partners, including one participating as discovery partner, from 8 Countries (FR, IT, LV, ME, PL, PT, RO, RS) representing regions with different levels of development, different institutional settlements and different arrangements in territorial strategy making. Through complementary and integrated mutual learning and capacity building activities, the Project will lead to policy improvement in the involved regions and more broadly to lessons useful as well for post2027 programming cycle.