The Government of Spain has approved the financing with 3.7 million euros, through the EDIL Plan, of a project of the City of Calsalvo (La Rioja) to promote its sustainable development from the triple environmental, economic and social perspective.

El BOE publishes the provisional resolution today the call for the allocation of the ERDF financial path to integrated action plans of local entities, in the framework of sustainable urban development, from the European Regional Development Fund in the programming period 2021-2027.

The EDIL Plan is aid that is part of the ERDF Fund for the period 2021-2027 and is intended for local entities to promote their sustainable development from the triple environmental, economic and social perspective. The grants of the EDIL Plan replace the calls called EDUSI (Sustainable and Integrated Urban Development Strategies) corresponding to the previous programming period 2014-2020.

The allocation of this call has been carried out with criteria of territorial cohesion and competitive concurrence. In the case of aid aimed at cohesion and territorial rebalancing, the availability is higher in the less developed regions, while it is lower for the more developed regions, in accordance with the programming criteria established by the European Commission.

In the calls for these EDIL grants, more than 40 areas of intervention were established around digitalization and local economic dynamization, energy efficiency, climate change prevention, circular economy, water resources, sustainable urban mobility, social inclusion or urban, cultural and tourist heritage, among others.

The call has been resolved taking into account criteria such as integrated planning and the transformative capacity of the projects. Also governance, participation and administrative and financial capacity, as well as the degree of maturity and viability of projects and complementarity and synergies with other programs. Projects can be implemented until 2029.