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The Government of Spain grants 200,000 euros to the city of Lorca for a project for territorial transformation and fight against depopulation

11/04/2025
The Government of Spain grants 200,000 euros to the city of Lorca for a project for territorial transformation and fight against depopulation
  • In the call for 2024 99 projects have been selected in 38 provinces, which will receive more than 19 million to promote innovation in local entities
  • Thirteen regional councils, including Lorca, received more than 1.5 million euros in total in the 2023 edition

April 11, 2025. The Government of Spain, through the Ministry for the Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge, has granted an aid of 200,000 euros to the city of Lorca in a national call for the development of innovation projects promoted by local entities aimed at territorial transformation and fight against depopulation.

MITECO’s assistance to the city of Lorca for this project, called “friendly districts with residents and visitors. Socio-spatial development”, is added to the same amount granted in the call for this program in 2023 by a project for the decentralization and expansion of municipal services among the 38 districts of Lorca.

Thirteen municipalities in the Region of Murcia were invited to participate in this competition. Their initiatives were recognized for a total amount of 1.5 million after a competition in which a total of 1,000 applications were submitted throughout Spain. One of them, the restoration of the Torre-Ermita de la Puebla de Mula, was inaugurated last Tuesday by the delegate of the Government, who highlighted the commitment of the Government of Spain to territorial transformation and fight against depopulation in the Region of Murcia.

Support objective

The objective of this aid, managed by the General Secretariat for the Challenge

Demographic, and aimed at municipalities in rural areas, is to encourage the implementation of innovative projects that contribute to achieving equity

territorial, responding to the specific needs of the environments in which they are developed, through the promotion of sustainability and digitalization, the attraction and retention of talent, culture or rural mobility, among others.

In the call for 2024, 99 projects have been selected in 38 provinces, which will receive more than 19 million to promote innovation in local entities. “Thanks to this initiative, a total of 77 municipalities, 12 groups of municipalities, 10 deputies, three communities and a region will benefit. Its actions reach more than 330 small municipalities,” said Sara Aagesen, Vice President and Minister for the Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge.