Roots Tourism Programme

Combined Instruments National Instruments Reachable Year 1

The operative truth

Terms

Ceilings, rates and coverage change between programming periods and vary by region. Confirm against the current call text before acting.
Administering body	Ministry of Foreign Affairs with regions and municipalities
Instrument type	Combined Instruments
Tier	National Instruments
Ceiling	Varies by call
Coverage	50–100% for participating municipalities and projects
Cost of money	n/a
Term	Project period
Earliest reachable	Year 1
Application to cash	120–300 days

Who qualifies

Municipalities, enterprises and associations serving descendants of Italian emigrants visiting their places of origin.

What it funds

Reception services, archival access, itineraries, accommodation and promotion in diaspora markets.

What disqualifies an applicant

What it stacks with

These instruments combine with this one. Grants generally cannot double-fund the same cost, but different components of the same project may each carry their own support, and tax credits stack more freely with grants than grants do with each other.

Grant · Set by each municipality, commonly €5,000–50,000 per beneficiary

Marginal Municipalities Fund

Persons and enterprises opening or transferring an activity into a designated marginal municipality, and in many cases those…

Grant · €30,000–200,000 depending on the local strategy

LEADER Local Development

Enterprises, associations and public bodies within the territory of the Local Action Group, in line with its published…

Mixed · €500,000–4,000,000 depending on the line

Export Development Fund 394

Enterprises with at least two deposited sets of annual accounts, seeking to develop foreign markets.

Ventures this funds

1 venture type in the atlas lists this instrument in their capital stack.

EXP-025

Genealogy and Roots Tourism

Archival research and guided visits for descendants tracing family origins in Italian communes.

Experience, Guiding and Cultural Economy

€5,000–€40,000
3–8 months

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The journey

Where this sits in the sequence

Applications precede expenditure, guarantees precede loans, and the venture is chosen before the property. The order is what protects the money.

P0

Orientation

Establishing who you are, what you hold, and what is therefore within reach.

P1

Selection

Choosing the venture, the place and the legal form, in that order and on evidence.

P2

Formation

Bringing the enterprise into legal existence so that instruments become reachable.

P3

Capitalisation

Assembling the stack in the correct sequence so that each layer supports the next.

P4

Preparation

Building the operational capability the venture will need on its first trading day.

P5

First Revenue

The first paying customer, and the systems that make the second one repeatable.

P6

Consolidation

Reaching the point where trading covers costs and the second revenue leg is established.

P7

Expansion

Growing beyond the founder's own capacity, into export, employment or collective structures.

Film

Applying, without losing the money

The order that protects funding you have already been awarded.

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From employed to owner

You do not have to resign to begin

The most common route onto this platform starts with a job, a skill and an evening. Ownership is the destination, not the entry requirement.

Stage one

Keep the income

The venture is built around the job rather than instead of it. Registration, the first customer and the funding application all happen while the salary continues.

No change to household income

Stage two

Prove the demand

First revenue arrives alongside the salary. The question stops being whether people want it and becomes how much they pay and how often.

Typically months four to seven

Stage three

Shift the balance

Hours move across as the venture earns. Reducing to part-time employment is a supported route, not a failure of nerve.

Where most instruments land

Stage four

The business carries you

The venture covers the household and begins repaying its capital. Employment becomes a choice rather than a necessity.

Repayment usually begins here

Knowledge modules

Questions about this kind of support

Each of the five hundred modules is written to be read on its own, without the page around it.

37 Do I need any qualification to farm in Italy? 41 Are there instruments specifically for women founders? 42 What support exists for founders with disabilities? 54 What is the third sector register and should my venture be in it? 57 Do I need a business plan, and who reads it? 60 How do I know whether I am ready to start? 61 How should I choose which business to start? 99 What is an ATECO code and why does it matter so much?

All five hundred modules

Work it out

Projects the month-by-month cash position and locates the trough before you reach it.

Run it

The six families

These ventures have the longest horizons and the most secure revenues in the atlas, because their income arrives under twenty-year tariffs and…

Energia, Ambiente ed Economia Circolare

Method

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Ranges, not projections

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Confirm against the call

Ceilings, rates and deadlines change and vary by region. Always confirm against the current call text of the administering body before committing anything.

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