Public Administration, European Funds and NRRP (National Recovery and Resilience Plan) (Italian PNRR): the system and management of public incentives for the territorial development

Abstract

he choices of the Public Administration (PA), the needs of the territory, the policies for the local economic development, the use of public funding constitute an inseparable combination aimed at creating development opportunities and therefore also to create work for the collectivity. In the current period characterized by globalization, the competitiveness of a territory can be facilitated by a PA responding to the needs of the time, that is, a real production organization capable of responding concretely, assuming a strategic role in the implementation of the development measures indicated in the economic planning tools and in the management of a large amount of public financial resources. In fact, the NRRP considers as a priority both the modernization of the Public Administration (PA) and the strengthening of the administrative capacity of the public sector, with the goal of engaging and spending the available financial resources with participatory and shared projects where the public-private partnership assumes a strategic role. It is therefore evident that planning the development of the territories and defining the methods of use of public funding, is a function that involves public institutions, according to their respective legislative competences, from the European level represented by the European Union up to reach the state, regional and local level represented by the Municipality. It is with this approach that the paper (article) tries to give an input by focusing the attention on the strategic role of institutions, both at local and superordinate level, and on the need to know the economic planning tools, in order to understand which project typologies to put in place using and optimizing the available related public funding.