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Brain Drain?

Brain Drain?

Brain Drain?

"In five years, Italy has lost 156,000 graduates and students with diplomas.” This line from the ISTAT Report on "Internal Mobility and International Migration of the Resident Population" is what we think of when we meet  Vincenzo Polizzi at the Microsoft House. Vincenzo, who is 21 years old, tells us about his achievements and future projects. He is a third-year automation engineering student at the Milan Politecnico and plans to complete his studies abroad at the Zurich ETH.

 

In The Challenges of Economic Policy Report, the “Confindustria” Study Centre calculated that the cost of the brain drain is 14 billion euro a year [see AGI’s fact-checking]. Indeed, this cost doubles for young men and women in southern Italy, just like Vincenzo, who was born in Canicattì, a small town with 30,000 residents in the Province of Agrigento. According to the Svimez Report on the Economy of the “Mezzogiorno”, the nearly 200,000 young graduates, who abandon the regions of southern Italy, represent a loss of 30 billion euro.

 

Will Vincenzo return to Italy? He says he will. In the meantime, he is working with us, providing his competences for the Ambizione Italia for Schools Programme, as a coach at the Microsoft House in Milan. He will work with high school students to transmit his passion for artificial intelligence applications in Robotics. His first lab will be held on Monday, March 4.  

 

In the video, Vincenzo explains his commitment. His educational career has crossed tracks various times with the Fondazione Mondo Digitale. He participated in RomeCup 2016, was a Digital Ambassador for European Project “Make: Learn: Share: Europe,” a finalist at the Global Junior Challenge 2017 with the Monumenta App and accompanied the Delegation of Italian Digital Ambassadors to Sheffield...

 

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