The Provincial Council of Castellón has begun to define the strategic plan Future province attract investment and promote economic activity and opportunities in the territory of Castellón.
The president of the provincial institution, Marta BarrachinaThis Tuesday, the first meeting with the company responsible for the preparation, implementation and monitoring of the strategic plan, Co-Enable, took place. The Castellón firm has extensive experience in developing and implementing strategies with a positive impact at international and national level. “In this first meeting, we began to outline and define a clear and long-term roadmap, taking into account the specific characteristics and particularities of each municipality, as well as the entire economic fabric of our province.”
So, within the Province Future Plan The strategic sectors with the greatest potential for implementation in the province will be identified, prioritized, selected and analyzed in depth, both those already present in Castellón and new sectors. And we will work with them to increase the resilience of the economic fabric. Currently, the province of Castellón has an economic fabric mainly divided into four sectors: services, industry, construction and agriculture.
As the provincial leader explained, the main objective of this project is “to increase the competitiveness and resilience of the province, and we will do this by strengthening the current economic fabric, identifying opportunities for economic diversification and providing solutions to the socio-economic challenges of the region.” territory.”
To achieve all this, the provincial institution will opt for a participatory and action-oriented approach and to do this, the vision of the agents present in the territory and the identification of concrete development actions will be taken into consideration.
To increase the resilience of the economic fabric of the province, the plan must integrate the expectations of current sectors and open the door to new opportunities. The study will therefore include the detection of new opportunities and the strengthening of current reference sectors. Regarding the detection of new opportunities, for the development of the project, the resources and capabilities of the province will prevail to attract new sectors, taking into account those related to the current industry, as well as emerging sectors that operate in other regions at the national and regional level. . international (technological, energy, health and wellness, aerospace, etc.). Regarding the promotion of current reference sectors, the position in current sectors where the province is a reference will be defended and strengthened, such as ceramics, logistics, chemistry, agriculture or the service sector, among others.
The project includes full support to the Provincial Council of Castellón, from the definition of the Economic development plan until its implementation and contact with potential investors and industry players. Thus, for approximately the first year of the project, its coordination will be ensured. This first block includes the definition of the investment attraction strategy, the implementation of the strategy and the support to attract investments.
“We must work to try to multiply the opportunities that develop in this land without forgetting the economic sectors and activities that are pillars and must continue to be so. That is why we want the Futur Província project to mark this common future, with opportunities and development for our entire territory,” said the president. Marta Barrachina.
And so that the project is born and developed with the participation and involvement of all agents, different work teams will be configured, made up of technical and political personnel from the Provincial Council of Castellón as well as private and public agents concerned from the province of Castellón.
The Economic Development Plan undoubtedly constitutes a roadmap so that, based on the needs of each sector of the province, the resources and measures to meet them are adequately utilized.
