MiBAC, allocation of 25 million euros over three years for cultural projects in urban suburbs

The Minister of Cultural Heritage, Alberto Bonisoli, announced the start of the Culture Urban Future project, a plan to regenerate struggling territories by diversifying and enhancing opportunities to access cultural and creative activities by those living in urban peripheries. So the Ministry of Culture, in line with the goals of the UN 2030 Agenda and those of the European Urban Agenda, has decided to promote culture as an enabling factor for sustainable development. A total of 25 million euros has been allocated for the plan until 2021 to increase, innovate and improve cultural services and functions in schools and libraries in suburban districts, including by recovering unfinished public works.

“I have noticed, at all levels of politics,” said Bonisoli, “that for the suburbs there is always little attention. Instead, I believe that that is where we need to start. The revaluation of the suburbs is one of the priorities of my mandate. That is why the projects that will be implemented through this plan will help build, through culture, opportunities for the social and economic improvement of the most fragile territories. Fostering collective intelligence, creating collaborative dynamics between public, private and third sector institutions will help meet people’s real needs and respond to ongoing social transformations.”

The plan, promoted by the General Directorate for Art, Contemporary Architecture and Urban Peripheries in collaboration with the institutions involved, will be based on three strategic actions: School Activates Culture, Neighborhood Home Library, Completed for Culture. Across the country, more than 100 projects will be funded. It will begin in March with the publication of a series of calls addressed to public, private and third sector entities to select projects that stand out for the originality and quality of cultural proposals.

“Through art and creativity,” stresses the director of the General Directorate for Contemporary Art and Architecture and Urban Peripheries, Federica Galloni, “citizens will be able to express not only their potential and desires but also develop the sense of identity that makes them unique as a community.”

MiBAC, allocation of 25 million euros over three years for cultural projects in urban suburbs

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