Sustainable Urban Development and Regeneration Strategy ITI Waterfront Ancona 3.0

The city's historic waterfront as a place of contemporary identity, a laboratory for new urban qualities, an incubator for integrated policies for sustainable urban regeneration.

In the framework defined by the EU legislation and the Partnership Agreement, the Marche Region has identified Integrated Territorial Investment ITI_Investimenti Territoriali Integrati as the most appropriate instrument to support integrated actions able to combine funding related to different thematic axes of the ROP ERDF 2014-20 funds able to maximize the impacts and spin-offs in urban areas.

Therefore, in 2016 the regional authority has launched a call for proposals addressed to the provincial capitals aimed at selecting 3 proposals for urban strategies that can be financed with a contribution equal to 80% of the total investment.

The Municipal Administration of Ancona, in line with the issues that emerged from the StrategicAncona2025 – Strategic Plan of the City, has identified in the ITI Waterfront programme of Ancona 3.0, the tool to implement a process of Urban Regeneration focused on the seafront of the historic port aimed at transforming Ancona from a city on the sea to a contemporary seaside city.

The strategy aims to build intersections of interests and coalitions of development that aim to achieve the following objectives:

  • to induce a new sense of identity and belonging on the part of the community,
  • intercepting the needs and planning of those subjects able to interpret contemporary social and economic dynamics,
  • enhancing Ancona’s historical and cultural heritage in relation to the port and its relationship with the sea,
  • to encourage collaboration networks between knowledge-intensive subjects operating in the territory for the development of innovative technologies applied to issues related to the sea, the port and the historical city,
  • to experiment with concrete actions aimed at increasing urban quality in terms of environmental sustainability.

The ITI Waterfront activates a total investment of about € 7,700,000 and has seen the definition of an inter-institutional partnership involving the Municipality of Ancona, the Central Adriatic Sea Port System Authority, the Superintendence of Architectural Heritage, Landscape and Archaeology of the Marche Region and the CNR- Institute for Biological Research and Biotechnology.

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