EUKN - European Urban Knowledge Network - Supportive Town Programme: promoting successful models of integrated development

Supportive Town Programme: promoting successful models of integrated development - Cava de’ Tirreni, IT.

Introduction

The main objective of the Urban Italia Cava de’ Tirreni Programme is to promote, at national level, the successful models of integrated development elaborated within the framework of the URBAN Community Initiative Programme. The Urban Italia Cava de’ Tirreni Programme has the purpose to promote a bottom-up economic development, involving citizens of the town and the local community.

Problem

The Urban Italia Cava de’ Tirreni Programme is intended to preserve and develop the cultural and historical heritage of the city. It aims to re-launch the old town centre and to strengthen infrastructure and environment through the regeneration of green areas and private properties. Moreover, it aims at supporting productive, commercial and tourist activities to improve local economies. The Programme main objective is to use innovative technologies through the enterprises incubator knowledge. Other key issues are the enhancement of social integration through strengthening the services supply, supporting the integration into the labour market and promoting local employment and training.

Description

The Urban Italia Cava de’ Tirreni Programme is intended to facilitate the cooperation between public and private actors, promote a better use of the architectural heritage and strengthen the territory close to the town. The Programme has two main objectives:

stimulate economic and social transformation in order to achieve professional and cultural growth
stimulate a sustainable development of Cava de’ Tirreni in order to improve the citizens’ quality of life.

In order to achieve these objectives the URBAN Italia Programme operates in different fields of intervention, such as association growth, creation of services, increase of economic activities, improvement of living standards, safety and crime prevention.

Approach

Many interventions have been realised to improve and stimulate the attractiveness of the old city centre of medieval origin. Moreover, the approach used to implement the Programme can be considered as one of the most relevant examples of networking between medium-sized towns of the Campania region. In order to increase the quality of life in Campania towns the Programme facilitates a bottom-up economic improvement. Furthermore the Programme aims at enhancing cooperation between public and private actors and stimulating partnership.

Results

Some of the key results are:

the restoration of the old town centre
the revampment of the main roads of Cava de’ Tirreni
the economic re-launch of the city centre through investment supply (modernization of shops and artistic lighting)
the opening of the Incubator main office and the evaluation of the entrepreneurial ideas submitted
the use of innovative technologies to implement the logistic organisation of the incubator (offices, décor, infrastructure and services) and to plan new activities for enterprises (drawing up of business plans drawing up, consultancy and training).

Moreover, the Urban Italia Cava de’ Tirreni Programme implements dissemination activities and training.

Beneficiaries

The direct beneficiary of the Programme is the City of Cava de’ Tirreni.

Resources used

The Urban Italia Cava de’ Tirreni Programme is financed by:
National yearly budget 2001: 5 million euros
Municipal funds 2.3 million euros
Other national funds 4.4 million euros
Private financing 3 million euros.

Contact info

City of Cava de’ Tirreni
Mr. Antonino Attanasio (Responsible for the procedure)

Project start date

07/08/2003

Links

Italian Ministry for Infrastructure (in Italian)Urban Italia Programme (in Italian)City of Cava de’ Tirreni (in Italian)

Document type

case

Themes

Urban Policy > Economy knowledge & employment > Urban economy

Keywords

Business support

Institutional characteristics
National Government