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 European Business Mediterranee’s mission consists in making easier to European citizens the information about the opportunities offered by European Union through Central Governments and Regions. Structural Funds have a determining function for the least developed regions; they constitute one of the EU’s main solidarity tools and are bound to public and private organisms, enterprises and private citizens. Structural Funds and the consequent programming interventions, actually carried out through ROP (Regional Operational Programme), contribute to promote a lasting and balanced development of economic activities, development of employability and human resources, environmental protection and improvement, elimination of inequalities, and promotion of gender equality.
Structural Funds are:
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European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), that aims to promote economic and social cohesion by correcting the main regional imbalances and participating in the development and conversion of regions. To that end, the ERDF shall also contribute to sustainable development and creation of sustainable jobs;
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European Social Fund (ESF), that is the European Union’s main tool for the development of human resources and the improvement of the workings of the labour market. It supports measures to prevent and combat unemployment and to develop human resources. The ESF aims to promote a high level of employment, equality between men and women, sustainable development and economic and social cohesion. The key aim of the Fund is to provide supporting finance for implementing the National Action Plans for Employment.
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European Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee Fund (EAGGF), a part of which, finances the EU's rural development policy. This aims to improve the efficiency of farm structures, to support investment in the food processing and marketing sector and to provide compensatory payments in less-favoured farming areas.
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Financial Instrument of Fisheries Guidance (FIFG), that aims to improve the competitiveness of the fisheries sector through restructuring. Measures include adapting and modernising the fleets, developing aquaculture, upgrading the processing and marketing of fishery and aquaculture products and improving fishing port facilities.
In the period between 2007-2013, Italian Regions have at their disposal € 25,7 thousand millions for Cohesion Funds and € 550 millions for Rural Funds.
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