Tools to support the territorial and urban dimension in cohesion policy : Integrated Territorial Investment (ITI) and Community-Led Local Development (CLLD) : research for REGI Committee

For the 2014-2020 programming period the regulations encourage the usage of integrated and place-based oriented approaches to foster economic, social and territorial cohesion, at the same time putting a greater weight on urban development actions in order to attain the Europe 2020 Strategy goals. These territorial approaches can be implemented by using tools such as the Integrated Territorial Investment (ITI) and the Community-Led Local Development (CLLD). The Partnership Agreements, between the Member States and the European Commission, should indicate how ITI and CLLD will be used by Member States and the types of areas and challenges that these mechanisms will address. The EP Committee on Regional Development (REGI) requested the Policy Department for Structural and Cohesion Policies for this briefing in support of the own-initiative report "New territorial development tools in Cohesion Policy 2014-2020: Integrated Territorial Investment (ITI) and Community-Led Local Development".