New Project - Territorial Attractiveness and Aids to Businesses: Replicability and lessons from the ERDF-cofunded interventions in selected EU Member States

Dr Laura Polverari will be leading a new study for the Italian Development Agency Invitalia on the aid schemes and integrated aid packages aimed at increasing the territorial attractiveness of regions and their structural change through tourism. The project entails the realisation of a comparative review of interventions implemented across the EU in the 2007-2013 ERDF programmes, and the realisation of case studies relating to experiences that could be adopted in the Italian context, appraising their strengths and weaknesses, and their potential for applicability in the framework of 2014-2020 Cohesion policy support to the less developed regions.