Local investment are a benefit to residents

Thanks to the Government Strategic Investment Programme, our small homelands can develop. A number of investments are being made, such as new roads, refurbished schools, illuminated pedestrian crossings or modern sports fields. Children have lessons in friendly classrooms, and after school they can spend their free time on the sports field.

Often it is Polish companies that carry out these projects. The development of municipalities, poviats and provinces therefore brings enormous benefits to Poles. It creates new jobs, but also thanks to the new roads, residents can travel faster.

“New jobs create better prospects - this is the model of life we are trying to bring back in - we want to breathe life into these forgotten poviats, forgotten municipalities,” stressed Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki.

Rules of calls for applications - 6th edition of the Government Strategic Investment Programme

“Today we come with good news - we are launching another programme of Polish Strategic Investments for municipalities at which state-owned farms operated,” announced the head of government.

Applications under the 6th edition of the programme can be submitted by municipalities, poviats, inter-municipal and poviat-municipal associations that have been classified as municipalities at which state-owned farms operated. Local government units can count on 98% funding. This means that they will only have to contribute 2% of their own funds to the investment. Each eligible local government can submit 2 applications

Limits apply for the municipalities:

• one application, the value of which may not exceed PLN 2 million;
• one application, the value of which may not exceed PLN 5 million.

Limits apply for poviats, inter-municipal and municipality associations:

• one application, the value of which may not exceed PLN 2 million;
• one application, the value of which may not exceed PLN 8 million.

Supporting former state-owned farm sites

The 3rd edition of the programme was also designed to support areas where so-called state-owned farms were in operation. The call for applications was resolved last year. We co-financed nearly 1,900 investments from over 1,300 municipalities. We allocated over PLN 4 billion for this purpose. This is all so that the municipality could develop and the quality of life of the inhabitants could be as high as possible.

“There are already close to 1,900 projects either executed or in the process of execution from previous editions - just for these municipalities," said the Prime Minister.

Digital development in post-state-owned farms areas

We are preventing a digital progress gap between municipalities. In 2022, we will provide around 218,000 schoolchildren in areas where state-owned farms operated with laptops, computers or tablets. We have earmarked nearly PLN 600 million for this purpose, as part of a grant competition. These are measures we are taking for the sustainable development of local governments and equal opportunities for residents.

Government Strategic Investment Programme

There have already been five editions of the Government Strategic Investment Programme to date. PLN 63.4 billion has been allocated for this purpose so far.

• The 1st and 2nd editions of the programme were for all local governments nationwide;
• The 3rd edition was addressed to areas where state-owned farms operated;
• The 4th edition was in support of the spa municipalities;
• The 5th edition was aimed at developing industrial zones in local governments.

Find out more about the Government Strategic Investment Programme!