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FAMP POPESCU Ruxandra-Irina, CORBO? Răzvan-Andrei and MINA-RAIU Laura
CCASP STUDY ON THE CONTRIBUTION OF EUROPEAN FUNDS FINANCED PROJECTS TO URBAN
DEVELOPMENT

120%
97%
100%
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60%

40%
17%
20% 8% 11%
5% 3% 2% 3% 3% 2%
0%
Rehabilitation Social services Local economic Environment Other
development (promotion)

1994-1999 2000-2006 2007-2013

FIGURE 1. BUDGET DISTRIBUTION
Source: Cavestany, 2013, pp. 65-66

The project’s beneficiaries: about 2,000 citizens (residents, SMEs that had headquarters in that specific
area).
30 th – 31 st October 2015 ”Strategic Management for Local Communities” Bucharest
Project coordinators: the municipality through the European External Action Service, in collaboration

with various public or private organizations (European Association for Information on Local Development,
2013a).

The project’s results:

a) Restoration of the historic center [for example, the restoration of the Montano Civic Center;
creating municipal playground in the Pericon Square (the result being: protecting the child care
spaces); the renovation of the Merced Square (the result being: reducing the traffic in the area,

improving the infrastructure, reopening of the Carmen Thyssen museum, the renovation of the
Contemporary Art Museum Malaga (figure 2) (Cavestany, 2013, pp. 22-43)].

FIGURE 2. THE RENOVATION OF THE CONTEMPORARY ART MUSEUM MALAGA, IN MERCED SQUARE
Source: http://www.datuopinion.com/mercado-de-mayoristas-de-malaga and
https://pintorjosemariafernandez.wordpress.com/2013/05/02/viaje-de-estudios-a-malaga/

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