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The European Urban Initiative (EUI) has been officially launched this month during the Cities of Forum in Turin, where the Capacity Building offer, the European Knowledge platform on urban matters and the topics of the second Innovative Action call for proposal have also been announced.

These are the calls of the European transnational cooperation programme Interreg Alpine Space, which for the period 2021-2027 can count on a budget of more than 142 million euros. Through special calls, the available funds are also used to implement projects in some northern Italian regions.

The experience of the EU response to the COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted that mobilizing European structural funds to respond to crises can divert Cohesion Policy from its primary goal of reducing gaps between regions of the Union and also put efficiency and effectiveness on the back burner for the sake of merely advancing spending.