Young people and the challenge of skills

Razzante*

Many young people leave Italy after their studies because they consider the job market to be poorly meritocratic and uninspiring. The gerontocracy that characterizes many selection processes in our country slows down the momentum of the new generations who prefer to seek their fortune elsewhere. How can we try to rekindle their trust and hope? The first edition of the Festival of the Circular Economy of Skills, which the Pensiero Solido Foundation is promoting today from 5 to 8 pm and tomorrow from 9:30 am to 1 pm, at the Parco Center in via Binda 30, will try to provide an answer. There are 35 companies, associations, and foundations that will give life to a rich and concrete dialogue, presenting projects that put young people and intergenerational exchange at the center.

The Festival proposes and shares practices and models that are already active and functioning in Italy and abroad, so that they can inspire all those who want to bet on the future, putting young people at the center within a fruitful relationship between generations. "We will not preach, we will show practices - explains Antonio Palmieri, co-founder and president of the Pensiero Solido Foundation - because we want to enhance the positive that exists and that does not look at the starting conditions but at the final goal: building the future here and now, involving young people. We want to show that circularity between generations is practicable everywhere and by anyone. All you have to do is want it". The Circular Economy of Skills project aims to enhance every talent by reducing waste, cultivate existing skills, prevent the dispersion of human capital and nourish innovation through the fertile meeting of different ideas and experiences. The Festival is part of the Milano Civil Week 2025 and is twinned with the Festival dello Sviluppo Sostenibile 2025 organized by ASVIS.

*Teacher of Information Law

at the Catholic University