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

b) Supporting local economic development (for example, a center for supporting entrepreneurs was
created with the purpose to strengthen the economy of the historic city center, by supporting the
opening of new business and improving the business from the area).
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c) Ensuring inclusion and social cohesion (for example, starting a series of training workshops for
different categories of people, who have problems finding a job; starting a program
called ”Support companion” for people with addictions).

d) Protecting the environment and environmental surroundings [for example, creating an
Environmental Consultancy Center for companies that have their headquarters in the historic
center; increasing the number of pedestrian areas (figure 3)].

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FIGURE 3. RESTORATION AND TRANSFORMATION OF A SERIES OF STREETS INTO PEDESTRIAN AREAS
Source: Cavestany, 2013, p. 23 and 28
e) Changing the city’s image has triggered an increase in the number of tourists. Thus, the number
of nights spent in Malaga has increased from 970,000 in 2005 to 1,697,000 in 2012. Also, cruise

tourism has boomed, as the number of those who chose to visit Malaga has reached 650,000 in
2012 (an increase from 205,000 in 2005) (Cavestany, 2013, p.70).

Once the project was completed, Malaga has become a model of sustainable urban development,

successfully combining an improvement in the quality of life of its population with economic, cultural and
social development of the central area, in the context of an accelerated increase in the number of tourists

(European Commission, 2013a, p. 2). Also, the project that was implemented in Malaga can be an

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