Entity :
PROVINCIA DI TORINO    

Country:
ITALIA

Region:
PIEMONTE

Population of the region:
4.352.828

Capital of the province:
Torino

Population of the province:
2.248.955

Competencies:

• Economic development  and support to economic sectors
• Agriculture and mountains
• Tourism
• Economic sectors

Territory, environment, infrastructures

• Environment
• Water and air resources
• Mobility
• Territory planning
• Transports and major infrastructures

Services to the persons and to the community

• Culture
• Job
• Equal opportunity
• Education and school buildings
• Vocational training
• Social affairs
• Sport

N.B. we exercise directly all these competencies, in the framework of the regional and national laws. In Italy, the regions have legislative competencies and provinces only executive / administrative competencies.

Political priorities:

• Support the territorial economy and the industrial base, suffering of a recession period.
• Adapt our policy to the EU priorities concerning the research and innovation activities, intercultural dialogue and the peace.
• Face the economic, social and institutional  changes maching the evolution of the local system, based on the industry and having some new rising sectors such as biotechnologies and multimedia.
• Balanced development between the metropolitan and rural area, involving all the 315 municipalities in the political decision making system.

European Programmes where the province has participated
territorial cooperation, PHARE, Leonardo, LIFE, VI FP RST, Equal