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The project deals with the growing phenomenon of migration of competent young people who grew up in the Alpine area and move from less developed areas to other European regions.
The project aims to develop and test new mechanisms of shared governance, e.g. the establishment of councils, observatories or networks, in order to increase the cooperation capacity and the decision-making process of the stakeholders of the Alpine Space regions towards the understanding and management of migration phenomena of young people in the Alpine area.
The project intends to promote a triple-win situation (for regions of origin of young people, for regions of arrival and for young migrants) through joint projects and the circulation of competences.

In many regions and areas of the Alpine region, especially mountainous ones, we have been witnessing for some time now a strong push towards a new mobility of skilled labour, especially of young people towards other countries and regions, often within the Alpine arc itself. Hence an impoverishment in terms of human resources of the mountain regions from which this mobility comes.
On the other hand, the territories into which the mobility flows result in the acquisition of valuable resources for their further economic and social development, thus causing a deterioration of territorial cohesion levels and imbalances in economic development and quality of life between regions, areas and territories of the Alpine region.
The project's macro-regional approach fosters greater cooperation in order to overcome existing challenges by providing adequate and shared governance tools that enable the "transfer" of economic and social competences and values through processes of "circularity" and return without necessarily envisaging the mobility or permanent physical return of the people these competences and values embody.

2025

Project kick-off meeting in Trento on 4 February 2025; Meeting with EUSALP youth council on 11 March 2025;

Second steering committee meeting on 15 April 2025;

In April 2025 project activities started concerning the collection of good practices on existing governance models to stem the phenomenon of youth migration and support young people and the definition of common indicators concerning youth migration

Meeting with mayors of Val di Cembra on 25th June for active involvement in the co-creation of the cooperation network and subsequent experimentation

Start of co-creation of youth advisory body and first meeting with partners 9 July 2025

Territorial animation with 3 meetings: 11 September, 14 October, 11 November defining the co-creation scheme of the network and the basis for its development in 2026 and a meeting to present the network to the territorial administrators on 9 December