The Italy that emigrates: young people from the North who go abroad, those from the South towards the North and abroad. In the five-year period 2021-2025, the South lost around 154 thousand young people aged 25-34 in exchanges with the Centre-North; in the last three years the Centre-North has also recorded a negative net balance with foreign countries of over 36 thousand graduates under 35. The overall migration balance of the group remains negative for around 84 thousand people. This is what emerges from the Svimez Report “The economy and society of the South”. The emigration of graduate women is also growing: 16 thousand from the south to the north and 10 thousand from the north to abroad.
The paradox of university residences Pnrr: 18% of the funded places are located in municipalities without universities
“The paradox” of university residences: of the 952 Pnrr interventions, approximately 18% of the places financed (11,284) are located in municipalities without university buildings, mostly in the first belt within 10 kilometers of the nearest university. For 44 interventions and 2,739 places (4.3%) the distance exceeds 10 kilometers as the crow flies, a threshold beyond which daily attendance is difficult without one’s own transport. Another 1,900 places are in smaller locations where places exceed enrollments. This is what emerges from the Svimez report. Overall, he adds, around 7% of the places present “a clear misalignment between supply and demand, the result of a supply-driven selection, which rewarded the availability of reconvertible properties rather than the proximity to the teaching locations”.