Langhe Monferrato Roero
Societa Consortile
Italy

Founded in 1995, 'Langhe, Monferrato e Roero' (LaMoRo) Consortium represents the union of seventy public and private bodies, spread across South Piedmont and joining together to ensure territorial wealth and growth. As LaMoRo operates in rural areas where territorial identity is a resource, all development strategies are carried out combining tradition and innovation, focusing on cultural and historical heritage and on innovative strategies enabling local actors to overcome isolation. LaMoRo informs citizens, institutions, enterprises and socio-economic operators about the initiatives and financing instruments at regional, national and international level through a monthly newsletter cared by Europe Direct.

The overall objective of LaMoRo's work is the qualification and development of territorial human resources. Vocational guidance and training is based on training seminars with specific themes, in order to support the professional growth of young people searching for a job or employed people, who want to improve their career. Specific counselling and training services are offered for women careers. The objective is to help women in their job and professional training research, providing them with useful instruments for their professional development and achieving in this way the carrying out of equal opportunities policies.

Support is also provided in terms of planning, managing and monitoring of regional, national and European actions. The specific services provided by LaMoRo in this field are: audit/researches, feasibility studies and surveys realisation, assistance and technical consulting to accede to regional, national and European calls for proposals (in particular application forms and specifications filling in involving financial, economic and socioeconomic aspects), business creation activities consultancy (and self-employment initiatives). Particular attention is given to the implementation of employment of women and young people.

In the last years LaMoRo has developed a quite good experience in planning and implementation of European projects, mostly Equal and Interreg III, strand A (Italy-France cooperation), B (Medocc and Alpine Space) and C. Concerning the Structural funds delivered at regional level, LaMoRo assists local authorities in the development of strategic and integrated plans based on the involvement of relevant stakeholders, in order to build actions in a shared way. Recently, they have also worked out a system of project financing through the involvement of local credit institutes, in order to create new forms of financing and facilitate credit access for local authorities.