Management of Actions to Reduce the outmIgration of yOung educated people

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MARIO has been designed to tackle the issue of outward migration in IT-HR area of young educated people as an integrated territorial governance strategy, by improving the knowledge of all decision makers on the multidimensional phenomenon, involving the target groups and stakeholders in identifying the problem and co-design and implement measures and to reduce or revert the outflow and make the area involved more attractive for young people to settle. To do this, MARIO involves 3 partners, each lamenting the situation of young people leaving and not coming back as well as its impact in creating major societal challenges such as aging population, growing inequality, climate change and unemployment, reflecting strongly on the cross border level. Outward migration as often been treated as a skills&jobs problem, but its multidimensional factors require to be tackled as an integrated governance problem, as it affects all socio-economic aspects. It is not just a problem for the local administrations of shrinking settlements, but also their communities and it shouts the need for commitment of all vertical and horizontal organizations, public and private. Most important, it requires to finally involve, listen and respond to the needs of the young people. Their making experience in other cities and countries is very beneficial for the original communities as long as they come back. Finally, everyone is free to move voluntarily inside the European Union, but governments and communities shall make all efforts to make it possible for young people to go back, with integrated measures responding to their needs expectations.

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