Feedback from our readers tells us that the in-depth materials published in this column are widely read and appreciated. So we said to ourselves, why not? Let’s take a step back in time and EU projects and funding!
Fondazione CRT, one of the sponsors of our Guide, published two printed Guides to EU Projects and Funding in 2006 and 2008, covering the 2007-2013 programming period and aimed at nonprofit organizations and Local Authorities, respectively.
The two documents shared the spirit of our Guide and were very successful: although now out of date in their description of Funds and Programs, they remain in circulation and are still a reference point, a small stain in the library of many EU project designers.
We have therefore decided to publish them in this column for all those who wish to delve further into the contents, logic and history of EU projects and funding. With a small caveat, of course: by referring to a definitively elapsed programming period, names and descriptions of Funds and Programs, Axes and Measures, related figures, links and modes of intervention are no longer valid.
What remains valid ten years later?
- The directions for EU projects and funding.
- The rationale for the distinction between actions/structural funds and directly managed community funding, their historical and political genesis, their cornerstone principles, and their particularities
- An illustration of the procedure for drafting and validating the community budget
- Glossary
- An indication of how the major Funds and Programs have evolved to date (a useful tool for better understanding them)
Here you go and enjoy your reading!
