The Government of Spain has selected the two Navarre projects that had been presented to the EDIL Plan (Local Integrated Development Strategy) and will receive funding amounting to 4.4 million euros. It is a project in Pamplona and another in Tudela, and each of them will receive 2.2 million euros with the aim of promoting their sustainable development from the triple environmental, economic and social perspective.

This aid is part of the ERDF Fund for the period 2021-2027 and is intended for local entities to promote their sustainable development. 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. As this is aid aimed at cohesion and territorial rebalancing, the availability is greater in the less developed regions according to 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 programmes. Projects can be implemented until 2029.