The Integrated Spatial Development Strategy (ICA) of the Municipalities of Paphos and Geroskipou to claim funding for development projects from the EU Structural Funds. In the framework of the Programming Period 2021-2027, the two Local Authorities presented today before the Evaluation Committee consisting of representatives of the Ministry of Interior and the General Directorate of European Programs, Coordination and Development (EPSA).
The presentation, which took place online due to the restrictive measures of the pandemic, was attended by the Mayors of Paphos, Faidonas Faidonos and Geroskipou, Michalis Pavlidis, the scholars of the contractor consortium that prepared the Study and competent officials of the two Local Authorities.
Mayors Phaedon Phaedon and Michalis Pavlidis developed the vision of the two Local Authorities on the basis of the Memorandum of Cooperation they signed last September for the development plan of the region for the next 10 years. The vision concerns the transformation of the Municipalities of Paphos and Geroskipou into a smart, innovative, extroverted and interconnected-integrated urban whole, which has the critical spatial and population mass required to strengthen their development prospects, focusing on entrepreneurial and .
The Strategy includes 92 development projects with a total budget of € 205 million. Of these, EU funding is claimed. for 39 projects with a total estimated cost of € 97.5 million. These projects are included in 4 priority axes:
Smart City – Innovative Economy (17 projects – 22% of the total budget)
Friendly City with a Social Person (41 projects – 35% of the total Budget)
City of History and Culture (16 projects – 19% of the total budget)
Green City (18 projects – 25% of the total budget)
The evaluation process for the Strategies submitted by the Local Authorities of Cyprus is expected to be completed by the competent Committee by May in order to take the relevant decisions.
