The Technical Support Instrument (TSI) provides tailor-made technical expertise to EU Member States to design and to implement reforms, in a wide range of areas such as revenue administration and public financial management, public administration and governance, growth and business environment, labour market, education and social services, migration, and financial market and access to finance. The TSI has been also supporting the preparation and implementation of Recovery and Resilience Plans.
Initiated in 2021, the TSI is the successor of the Structural Reform Support Programme (SRSP). Since 2017, both programmes have helped design, develop and implement over 2000 reform projects in 27 Member States. Those reforms support Member States address their reform agenda, in line with the EU priorities and the country specific recommendations issued in the context of the European Semester.
COMPLETED AND ONGOING REFORM PROJECTS IN ITALY*
* The above data include all projects completed and ongoing at the time of the announcement of the annual TSI financing decision. During their execution, projects can be further split or aggregated, cancelled or withdrawn. Therefore, figures related to the approved reform support projects can slightly differ.
Reform projects approved under the Technical Support Instrument
The Technical Support Instrument annual cycle is launched every year during the dedicated TSI Annual Conference. The conference also starts the discussion with Member States on potential multi-country projects, geared at addressing common issues among Member States thereby emphasizing the EU added-value of the instrument. The event is also the opportunity to present the new "Flagship" projects, supporting reforms which are largely needed across Member States and are in line with the EU key political priorities.
For 2025, the Commission approved the following 16 reform support projects for Italy:
- Support to the effective implementation of the Net-Zero Industry and Critical Raw Materials acts in Italy
- Enhancing the valorisation of Research in Italian State-Owned Universities through Networks, Infrastructures, and Services
Multi-country projects:
- Supporting Digital Transformation in Competition Law Enforcement
- AI-Driven Regulatory Compliance and Risk Management in Digital Finance
- Facilitating the CSRD implementation
- EU Supervisory Digital Finance Academy
- MATCH.FUTURE: Strumenti innovativi per il matching tra domanda e offerta di competenze emergenti
- Leveraging the EU public procurement data space
- Technical support for the implementation of the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) in Italy
- PACE - Transformation of European public services (Italy)
- Building capacity for social impact analysis, including distributional impact assessment in Italy
- The Italian EU Resources Hub for sustainable investing in health: a case study on health
- ProdTool - NPB 2.0: Micro-Data Analysis Tool 2.0 for comparative productivity studies at National Productivity Boards
- EU Supervisory Digital Finance Academy: Strengthening Supervisory Capacity in Innovative Digital Finance
- COVIP Participation to the EU Supervisory Digital finance academy
For 2024, the Commission approved the following 15 reform support projects for Italy:
- A Road Map to Connect Africa to Europe for Clean Energy Production
- Disaster risk reduction for public buildings and real estate
- Faster permitting for Renewable Energy projects in Italy
- Reorganisation of the Italian national governance of health technologies
- Strengthening public-private partnerships in the delivery of employment services in Italy
- Strengthening the regulatory and supervisory framework and market practices for the use of artificial intelligence in the Italian Financial Markets
- Support to the development of a strategic decision model and financial instruments for public real estate investments
- Technical Support for food safety at national and regional level
Multi-country projects:
- Artificial Intelligence to tackle the non take-up of social security benefits
- Enhancing access to justice through the application of a PCJ approach
- Promoting the mental health of youth by addressing the risks of online gambling and gaming
- Strengthening Italy's capacity to model the macroeconomic effects of 'green' policies and investments through the GreenREFORM model
- Developing Green Budgeting practices at regional level
- Gender mainstreaming in public policy and budget processes in Italy
- Strengthening regional capacities and skills for SDGs localization: policy coherence for sustainable development and impact assessment
For 2023, the Commission approved the following 14 reform support projects for Italy:
- Industrial ecosystems
- Improving ESG data availability and sustainability corporate reporting in Italy
- IMPACT – natural swIMming Pool to enhAnCe soustAinable Tourism
- Behavioural Public Administration in the Italian PA
- Climate adaptation
- Towards person-centered integrated care
Multi-country projects:
- Implementing the DNSH principle in the assessment, monitoring and reporting of public expenditure (Green Bonds and infrastructure projects)
- PACE - Civil service mobility
- PACE - Comparing the organization of Trial Offices around Europe
- PACE - Pathway to a new organisational culture in the Ministry of Economy and Finance
- Improving ESG data availability and sustainability corporate reporting in Italy
- ESG risk management framework for the financial sector
- Youth FIRST - supporting children and youth wellbeing, education, training, social protection and labour prospects
- Proof of concept of AI models in market abuse monitoring
In 2022, the Commission approved 19 reform projects for Italy:
- Supporting Design and Implementation of the Universal Civil Service RRP Project, to unlock Youth Employment Opportunities
- Support for digital innovation of criminal justice
- Just transition process for two territories in Italy
- Recharge and Refuel - Clean, smart and fair urban mobility
- Technical support for women’s empowerment through gender mainstreaming and gender certification of businesses
- Support to the tourism ecosystem: towards a more sustainable, resilient and digital tourism
- Forecasting the Teaching Workforce in Italy
- Digital skills to increase quality and resilience of the health system in Italy
- Strengthening the administrative capacity of the Italian National Institute of Social Security (INPS)
- Implementation of the accrual accounting reform in the public sector assets area in Italy
- Integration of Third Country Nationals in EU Member States
- TSI 2022 Flagship technical Support project on welcoming and “Integration of Third Country Nationals in Member States” – Dedicated in response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine
Multi-country projects:
- Regional and local authorities – Quality and cooperation of public administrations
- EU Supervisory Digital Finance Academy - Banca d'Italia
- EU Supervisory Digital Finance Academy - CONSOB
- MiNetwork: Facilitating Third Country Nationals’ access to social services and the Greek labour market
- Support to REPowerEU
- Implementation of the European Child Guarantee
- Regional and local authorities – Enhancing cooperation & Quality of public administration
More information can be found in the 2022 Country Factsheets.
In 2021, the Commission approved the following 11 reform projects for Italy:
- Advanced policy instruments to accelerate the circular economy
- A data driven approach to tax evasion risk analysis
- Reforming regulatory inspections in Italy at regional and national level
- Reforming the disability assessment and social protection system in Italy
- Green Infrastructure principles for transport infrastructure development
- Improve the Public Sector Data Exchange Methodology
- SHAPE - Strengthening change management process of executives
- Boosting evidence based policy making
- Knowledge exchange and collaboration between universities and society
- General technical support for the implementation of Italy's Recovery and Resilience Plan
Multi-country projects:
More information can be found in the 2021 Country Factsheets.
Structural Reform Support Programme (SRSP) projects (2017-2020)
The TSI expands on the experience of the SRSP programme in building capacity in Member States. You can find the full list of SRSP projects here.
Highlighted projects
The Commission aims at supporting Italian authorities in providing integrated care to non-self-sufficient people.
The Commission supports the implementation of two key reforms foreseen by the National Recovery and Resilience Plan and the first Italian National Strategy for Gender Equality.
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