ERDF and ESF+ 2021 to 2027
Announcement of further funding until 2027
At its meeting on 14 September 2022, the City Council passed resolution B-173/2022 on the area-related integrated action plan (GIHK) of the City of Chemnitz for the funding of ERDF and ESF PLUS areas until 2027. The action plan was the basis for the application for EU funding from the Sächsische Aufbaubank (SAB).
In the city of Chemnitz, sustainable, integrated and social urban development will be funded in 5 areas from programmes of the European Cohesion Fund ERDF or ESF+ in the funding period up to 2027:
ERDF area Zwickauer Straße
ERDF area Altchemnitz
ERDF area Chemnitz city centre
ESF area Chemnitz centre
ESF area Chemnitz South 2.0.
The neighbourhoods are disadvantaged in various ways compared to the city as a whole, e.g. due to the high proportion of recipients of social benefits, a high vacancy rate of commercial space and brownfield sites, a poorer environmental situation, a lack of infrastructure or a particular need for support for small-scale local businesses and social services. The planned measures are intended to help compensate for these deficits with an integrated approach and give the people living and working there more opportunities to participate.
All citizens in Chemnitz had various opportunities to participate before the GIHK was adopted. In the process, 110 project ideas for the ERDF and ESF were submitted throughout the city. The evaluation of the proposals and the analysis of existing urban plans and resolutions led to the present area-based integrated action plan with specific areas and measures to be funded.
ERDF Sustainable urban development 2021 - 2027
The overcoming of structural deficits is supported by funds from the Free State of Saxony and the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF). The basis for this is the funding guideline "Sustainable integrated urban development 2021 - 2027", which was published in the Saxon Official Gazette No. 5/2023.
The aim is to support Saxon cities with at least 5,000 inhabitants in the development of disadvantaged urban neighbourhoods as part of regional funding in order to effectively tackle the very different local problems.
The funding guideline focuses on the following priorities and fields of action:
Investment projects that serve to reduce CO2 emissions
Investment projects to improve urban ecology
Investment and non-investment projects that serve the economic and social revitalisation of the subsidised cities and urban districts and improve their quality of life for residents
On 5 September 2023, the city of Chemnitz received framework decisions for all three ERDF areas with a total grant of €12.29 million. To co-finance the funding, the municipality is providing its own contribution of 10 - 30 % for each individual measure.
In addition, there is funding for small companies (KU funding) in all three ERDF funding areas.
This offers financial subsidies for investments in existing or newly founded companies and thus specifically strengthens the local economy in the subsidised districts.
Further information on KU funding, funding requirements and how to apply can be found here.
Further information on the three approved ERDF funding areas and the individual measures to be implemented can be found on the following pages:
ESF Plus Sustainable social urban development 2021 - 2027
The funding from ESF Plus offers the City of Chemnitz the opportunity to initiate social change in the selected areas to stabilise and improve the living conditions of the district residents.
On the basis of the area-related integrated action plan adopted by the city council, the two funding areas have been under development since autumn 2023
ESF-Chemnitz Centre"
ESF-Chemnitz South 2.0
have been funded since autumn 2023. The City of Chemnitz has received area approvals totalling € 5.5 million for this purpose. This means that a total of 24 additional low-threshold and social neighbourhood projects will be implemented by June 2028.
ESF PLUS funding is particularly aimed at the development opportunities and employability of socially and labour market disadvantaged people. A broad spectrum of offers and actors are intended to socially stabilise the areas and strengthen cohesion in the community. The projects are bundled in the following fields of action:
Informal child and youth education
Social integration
Accompanying measures (programme support and public relations work).
The spatial focus is on the inner-city areas of the city centre, Brühl, Reitbahnviertel and Sonnenberg as well as the large suburban housing estate in the south of Chemnitz, the former "Heckert area". In line with the integrated approach to action, social projects are sometimes combined with structural interventions from the urban development programme or the ERDF fund.
