Recruitment process launched for 2,200 new hires in the South to improve expenditure of European funds

President Meloni: Government commitment to greater opportunities for young people. New talent to boost Italy's southern regions

A recruitment process has been launched today, as part of the 'RIPAM' public administration requalification project, to hire 2,200 new officials for local authorities in the Basilicata, Calabria, Campania, Molise, Apulia, Sardinia and Sicily regions and for the Department for Cohesion Policy and Southern Italy, organised by the Department for Public Administration at the Presidency of the Council of Ministers, in agreement with the Department for Cohesion Policy and Southern Italy.

This initiative by the Government, supported by the European Commission and funded by both European and national resources through the national operational programme for cohesion capacity 2021-2027, provides for new, additional staff to be hired with permanent contracts for the authorities concerned.

Hiring young graduates also fulfils the Government's strategic goal to modernise the public administration, with a view to making public action more effective through innovation, digitalisation and new skills.

The President of the Council of Ministers, Giorgia Meloni, expressed great satisfaction with this important result: "The Government has undertaken this commitment to meet the needs repeatedly voiced by local areas as well as to offer new opportunities to young people. This will significantly strengthen administrative capacity in Italy's southern regions, where new talents and skills will give fresh impetus to the implementation of cohesion policy-funded projects".

The new recruits will in fact be tasked with ensuring that European funds are used more efficiently, accelerating social and economic development in the areas involved and thereby contributing to the nation's overall growth and helping to reduce historical regional disparities.

In particular, this national recruitment process responds to the need to enhance staffing expressed by Municipalities, the Union of Municipalities, Provinces, Metropolitan Cities and Regions in the areas concerned, and forms part of the Government's priority actions to make better use of European funds and improve expenditure performance, thus guaranteeing cohesion policy objectives are fully met in the South.

The recruitment procedures will be completed by the end of 2024 and the successful candidates will then undergo specific training on cohesion policy so as to be fully operational by spring 2025.

Furthermore, there is also a parallel initiative to strengthen staffing for authorities unable to benefit from these new hires, involving a specialist-technical support service to facilitate full implementation of cohesion policy projects in local areas. This will also be funded by resources from the national operational programme for cohesion capacity 2021-2027.

The Minister for European Affairs, Southern Italy, Cohesion Policy and the NRRP, Raffaele Fitto, commented: "This achievement is the result of months of intense and rewarding work, carried out through ongoing dialogue with local areas and the European Commission.
As we promised in the Government's coalition programme, we are optimising use of European resources, also by providing more than two thousand new recruits with specialist skills through specific training in this area.
This is a unique opportunity for Italy".

[Courtesy translation]

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