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Nearly 1.7 billion for Podlaskie in the new perspective

10.01.2023

Nearly EUR 1.3 billion worth of European funds will be available to the Podlaskie voivodeship, including EUR 930 million from the European Regional Development Fund and more than EUR 360 million from the European Social Fund. ‘In the new financial perspective, Podlaskie voivodeship faces a great opportunity and some challenges too’, Minister Grzegorz Puda said today at the conference inaugurating European Funds for Podlaskie 2021-2027. Minister of Development Funds and Regional Policy Grzegorz Puda, Marshal of the Podlaskie Voivodeship Artur Kosicki and a representative of the European Commission met representatives of local governments.

Nearly 1.7 billion for Podlaskie in the new perspective

Additionally, Podlaskie can count on support worth approximately PLN 400 million from the European Funds for Eastern Poland 2021-2027 programme in the 2021-2027 perspective.

Six voivodeships will have money from the EFEP in their budgets of regional programmes for the years 2021-2027: Podlaskie, Lubelskie, Podkarpackie, Świętokrzyskie, Warmińsko-Mazurskie and a part of the Mazowieckie voivodeship (without Warsaw and nine poviats surrounding it).

‘I believe that the future financial funds and current investments will contribute to the faster socioeconomic development of Podlasie. I believe that the funds available under European Funds for Podlasie will be spent effectively and will serve the inhabitants of the region to implement the best projects, which will contribute to the development of the voivodeship and improve the residents’ quality of life. EU money from EFfP itself will finance a wide range of projects’,

Minister of Development Funds and Regional Policy Grzegorz Puda stressed.

Entities operating in the voivodeship will also be able to apply for support under national programmes, which will also undoubtedly increase the range of investments to be made in the region from the EU funds.

Among other things, funds from the European Regional Development Fund will be used for:

  • Research and innovations,
  • Support of environment-friendly investments and investments counteracting climate changes,
  • Construction and modernisation of voivodeship and local roads, railways of regional importance and the infrastructure of pedestrian and bicycle paths,
  • Modernisation of schools, historical monuments and cultural institutions, improved accessibility of public facilities and spaces, health care infrastructure,
  • Territorial instruments,
  • Development of urban mobility including the purchase of low-emission rolling stock for public transport, charging stations, other investments improving traffic safety and passenger services.

Money from the European Social Fund plus will be allocated to adult employment and training, education and social inclusion and local development, i.e. support for community-based activities.

As the Minister of Development Funds and Regional Policy stressed,  it was an undoubted negotiating success for the Podlaskie Voivodeship to convince the European Commission to support a proportion of Podlaskie's entrepreneurs through subsidies rather than repayable instruments only (mainly loans).

It was established in the programme for Podlasie that entrepreneurs who operate in municipalities experiencing an accumulation of negative socioeconomic factors would be able to receive subsidies to help attract investors and create new jobs. Such municipalities are mostly located in poviats with a particular accumulation of negative socioeconomic trends bordering on Belarus and Russia.

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