Overview
- The program, which opened Tuesday, lets residents in Groningen and in Aa en Hunze, Noordenveld and Tynaarlo apply for funding.
- Each project can receive up to €10,000 from an annual €6 million pot.
- Projects must boost livability or social connection and show wider local support, while commercial, political and religious activities are excluded.
- The scheme replaces the Nationaal Programma Groningen’s Loket Leefbaarheid and promises a simpler application with help from Groninger Dorpen and the Drenthe group BOKD.
- It sits in Nij Begun’s Social Agenda for long-term recovery after gas extraction, with a one-year evaluation planned and a reported 30-year horizon.