(October 9, 2015) “Brasil Proxim was able to bring Italian and Brazilian territories closer, sharing policies and tools to support local integrated and sustainable economic development, with particular attention to the strengthening of SMEs, the cooperative movement, social policy and the economy culture”. So speak vice president of Regione Umbria, with responsibility for Economic Development and Tourism, Fabio Paparelli, in his speech during the latest activities of the program “Brasil Proximo – Five Italian Regions Italian for local development in Brazil”. Paparelli spoke on behalf of Regione Umbria, leader of the program, and other Italian regions involved as partners (Marche, Tuscany, Emilia Romagna and Liguria) at an international seminar on new challenges in territorial cooperation, organized at the Palacio do Planalto in Brasilia to celebrate the closing of the program activities involving Brazil in 8 States and more than 40 cities, as well as the Presidency of the Federative Republic of Brazil, in partnership with the Brazilian Agency for Cooperation and the National Association of Brazilian municipalities. Expressing great satisfaction with the results achieved, Paparelli stressed out that “2016 will see our country engaged in two major international events, the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro and the Jubilee, which will bring many visitors in Umbria, in Assisi, the St Francis Way, and Umbria and its paths will be protagonists for sure”. (Red)
