The Action Committee for the Mediterranean and LUISS School of Government Launch a Joint Seminar Series on Mediterranean Talent Mobility
The Action Committee for the Mediterranean (ACM) and the LUISS School of Government, with the support of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, have launched “Mediterraneo 2050: Come Trasformare Il Divario Demografico In Risorsa Per La Pace” a new partnership dedicated to building talent pipelines between Europe and North Africa a collaboration that has already produced two joint seminars, in Rome (5–6 March 2026) and Milan (17 June 2026).
The partnership responds to a stark demographic reality: while Southern shore countries are producing large, increasingly qualified youth populations facing structural unemployment, Northern Mediterranean economies are confronting shrinking workforces and mounting labour shortages. Rather than treating this divergence as a threat, the ACM-LUISS initiative frames it as an opportunity for balanced, mutually beneficial mobility partnerships.
The series opened in Rome, convening experts, institutional representatives and students to examine higher education and skills circulation, before moving into working groups that produced concrete policy recommendations.
It continued in Milan, at the LUISS Hub, under the title “From Training to Employment: Building Mediterranean Talent Pipelines.” The seminar brought together voices from the OECD, the European Labour Authority, the ILO, the Migration Partnership Facility and Italian training institutions to map labour shortages, examine existing talent partnership models, and debate what it will take to scale them from tens of thousands to the millions of workers the region will need.
Across both sessions, a shared conclusion emerged: political frameworks matter, but it is businesses, training institutions and people that will ultimately build the bridges between the two shores of the Mediterranean.
The recommendations emerging from the series will be put forward to the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation to help inform its policy on labour mobility with the Southern Mediterranean.