the Intesa-Luiss observatory to bridge the Corriere.it gap

According to Eurostat data, NEETs, i.e. young people aged between 15 and not in education, employment or training in 2021 were 13.1% in the European Union, while Italy is the EU country with the highest percentage ( 23.1%), about 2.1 million young people, which rise to 3 million if we consider young people aged between 15 and 34 years. And it is women (56% are women) and young people in Southern Italy (over 30% – almost 40% in some regions) who are most penalized. Paradoxically, despite the fact that unemployment is high (22.3% among young people and 7.8% overall) according to the Observatory for tomorrow’s work Look4ward created and presented on 10 May by Intesa San Paolo in collaboration with the Luiss Guido Carli University and in partnership with Siref Fiduciaria, Accenture and Digit’Ed which aims to monitor the needs of new skills, regeneration of professional figures and profiles to support new businesses, in strategic sectors for the country and support the planning of new employability initiatives, 45% of companies cannot find the manpower necessary for development, 2 out of 3 companies find it difficult to find the right candidates from the ITS and, another alarming figure, in the last ten years 80,000 graduates have emigrated to abroad. To fill this gap it is necessary to invest in skills, above all by leveraging new technologies, sustainability and soft skills. The generational handover also represents an opportunity to activate innovative and sustainable transition processes in Italian companies, maintaining and increasing the levels of competitiveness, also at an international level. The Observatory’s first publication, “A look at Neet. Analysis, categorization and intervention strategies”, focuses on the increasingly widespread problem in Italy and in Europe of young people who do not work, do not study and are not engaged in training activities.

Collaboration between companies, universities and banks

And how are Intesa Sanpaolo and the other entities, including those present at the round table, doing? The objective is to make a contribution of knowledge useful for activating training courses aimed at social inclusion and employability. For some time Intesa Sanpaolo has made a commitment to promote initiatives to reduce inequality and promote employability, especially of young people, a commitment reinforced with the 2022-2025 Business Plan. Hence the idea of ​​a permanent Observatory, created with high-profile partners which through six-monthly analyzes provides scientific support that the Bank and the partners involved intend to make available to companies, institutions, associations, the third sector to contribute effectively to the issue of the demand for skills in the labor market, to support sustainable and scalable work inclusion programs, with a positive impact for the country, explained Elisa Zcampo Marsala, head of social development and University Relations Intesa Sanpaolo.

The initiatives of Intesa San Paolo, Talent Garden, Humanitas, Accenture

The program activated by the credit institution, launched in 2019 with courses in the retail, hotel and digital fields, is called Giovani e Lavoro to respond to the needs of the various companies that collaborate with the Bank to reduce the mismatch between supply and demand. Among the other initiatives worth mentioning, for example, is the new English-language medical faculty established by Humanitas: Medtec, which allows young students who have enrolled to graduate in both medicine and biomedical sciences and therefore work in the company. A profile that is increasingly in demand also due to the increase in the average age of our population. While there are 5,000 talents trained in the digital field in recent years who have found work in various sectors thanks also to a personalization of their paths with the real needs of local markets from Davide Dattoli’s Talent Garden which is inspired by the model of Nordics who, thanks to an adequate digital educational path, have managed to drastically reduce youth unemployment. Instead, according to Paola Mascaro, marketing and communication director of Accenture, a company that helps companies deal with transformation, the time to update has decreased because evolution travels at a much faster pace and we need to understand how to keep up, how to help women achieve gender equality and more stable employment.