The further Notice for nursery schools for the Municipalities of the Southern Regions, with priority for the Regions of Basilicata, Molise and Sicily, ended on May 31, financed with resources from the National Recovery and Resilience Plan for approximately 70 million residuals. The PNRR procedure for 0-2 year education is thus definitively concluded, with the complete use of the 2,4 billion available, and respecting the percentage of 55,29% of resources foreseen for the South. With the addition of funds for Children's Poles and Infant Schools, the entire 3 billion made available by the PNRR will be used. For the Notice closed at the end of May, a total of 74 additional applications were received, for a total of loan requests for € 81.199.333,64. The largest number of applications came from Sicily (22), followed by Campania (10), Abruzzo, Basilicata, Molise (9 each), Calabria (7), Puglia and Sardinia (4 each).
“We were able to use all the resources of the PNRR for the nursery schools - declares the Minister of Education Patrizio Bianchi -. A team work that makes us proud, conducted with the Cohesion Agency, the Prefectures, ANCI, the ministerial structure for the PNRR. An action that has also made it possible to strengthen and mend institutional relations with the territory, with the constant support provided to the Municipalities in order to participate in the tenders. I thank all those who have helped us to achieve this important result ".
We will now proceed to the elaboration and, in the coming weeks, to the publication of the rankings of this last call and of the previous one, concluded at the end of March.