The creation of a research and higher education center on development policy issues, with particular reference to the South, from which the birth of the LUISS Laboratory on the South and a second level Master's in "Economics and Development Policies" derives. These are the contents of the three-year partnership between the Luiss Guido Carli University and Invitalia presented today at Villa Blanc, the new prestigious headquarters of the LUISS Business School in Rome.
"These two initiatives were designed to support the activity of local businesses, to promote social dialogue and credible and fruitful forms of partnership in the southern regions, which do not require extraordinary interventions, but concrete attention, useful for guaranteeing growth national,” she said LUISS President Emma Marcegaglia.
In fact, the project has the common objective of fueling the debate on Southern Italy and helping to identify solutions capable of revitalizing the local production system and increasing employment levels in the Southern regions. Directed by prof. Stefano Manzocchi, Director of the Department of Economics and Finance at LUISS, the LUISS Laboratory on Southern Italy - the Observatory on Innovation, Business and Development, will deepen research on entrepreneurship and economic development in Southern Italy, while the Master in Economics and Development Policies, which will make use of the scientific contribution of the Laboratory, will provide young professionals already in possession of a master's degree with complete and in-depth training on the most effective tools and methodologies for the promotion and economic and social development of the South, ranging from public policy and from Euro-planning to the new languages of the digital economy of Big Data Analysis and Information Management.
Carried out in collaboration with Invitalia, which provides 20 scholarships reserved for Public Administration officials, the Master will have a duration of 10 months, plus two for the final thesis, for a total of 2 hours of frontal teaching and seminars.
The scientific direction is entrusted to prof. Sergio Fabbrini, Director of the LUISS School of Government and to prof. Stephen Manzocchi. An integral part of the Master also three experimental laboratories on the South, to provide a wealth of statistical knowledge and innovation processes to be applied in the definition of public policies for the development of the South and some in-depth seminars held in collaboration with Invitalia and the Laboratory on the South . Also envisaged is the creation of an Advisory Board with the task of guiding the activities. It will include: Giuliano Amato, Jean-Paul Fitoussi, Daniel Gros, Romano Prodi, Alessandro Laterza, Domenico Arcuri, Giovanni Lo Storto.
“It is our belief – added the Rector of the Paola Severino University – that the country's development cannot do without a fundamental part of it. LUISS and Invitalia are working to relaunch, with specific and innovative research programmes, the territories of the South and support them in the management of the economic, cultural and social heritage at their disposal".
Very satisfied too Domenico Arcuri, CEO of Invitalia because “The southern question, forgotten for too long, has returned to being central in the last two years thanks to government policies. This initiative aims to combine the demand for development of territories and citizens with policies for growth. It is no coincidence that this master's degree is of the second level and three quarters of it is aimed at employees and officials already included in the Southern Public Administration who in this way become actors in the policies of the South".
