PNRR and culture: focus on the projects of Puglia, Basilicata and Calabria with the Ministry of Culture

The meeting between the managers of the PNRR Mission Unit of the Ministry of Culture and the mayors of the municipalities of Puglia, Basilicata and Calabria selected for line B of the National Villages Plan took place in Rome. The objective was take stock of the local regeneration projects funded, resolve critical issues and define future strategies for the cultural and social relaunch of internal areas.

Another meeting between the managers of the Mission Unit of the PNRR of the Ministry of Culture and the mayors of the municipalities that won line B of the National Villages Plan call was held in Rome, at the Collegio Romano. This time, the meeting was the mayors of Calabria, Basilicata and Puglia were summoned, as well as the representatives of the regional ANCIs who are supporting the administrations in this delicate phase of implementation of the selected local regeneration projects.

The aim of the meeting was take stock of the funded projects and their implementation status, the critical issues encountered and the next strategies. The Head of the PNRR Mission Unit of the Ministry of Culture, Eng., was present to answer the mayors' questions and doubts. Angelantonio Orlando, and Luisa Piacentini of the Technical Secretary of the Minister who organized the meeting.

even the Minister of Culture, Alessandro Giuli, wanted to convey his greetings to the representatives of the local administrations: “The Ministry will continue with the tools available to encourage the cultural battle against the depopulation of internal areas and the cultural drought of the villages, as we have done in the Culture Decree now under discussion in the Chamber, in which we have provided funding for libraries even in the smallest municipalities that will be able to innovate these places by transforming them from centers of erudition and knowledge to spaces of sociality, from archive reading rooms to places where the community can live through the involvement of even the youngest.".