Verso Sud: International Mediterranean Forum

Looking Southward. Europe’s Strategy for a New Geopolitical, Economic, and Socio-Cultural Season in the Mediterranean

Verso Sud: International Mediterranean Forum

Looking Southward. Europe’s Strategy for a New Geopolitical, Economic, and Socio-Cultural Season in the Mediterranean

May 16-17, 2025 4th edition

Verso Sud: International Mediterranean Forum



The International Mediterranean Forum: "Verso Sud (Looking Southward): Europe's strategy for a new geopolitical, economic and socio-cultural season in the Mediterranean" is an international public-private platform launched in collaboration with and under the patronage of the Italian Government, with the aim of bringing together, in a single think tank, the best companies and Institutions and representatives of academy and research, in order to build, enhance and communicate a new idea of Southern Italy and the Mediterranean.


The 4th edition of Verso Sud continues in 2025 with a series of thematic Round Tables that address the key priorities in the Mediterranean. The aim of these meetings is to develop proposals and solutions for the growth of Southern Italy and the Mediterranean, actively involving various stakeholders from the territory in the process.

The initiative will conclude with the Annual Forum in Sorrento, on May, 16-17 2025, preceded by an afternoon of dialogue with the youth: "Sorrento meets the future: the Mediterranean for the Youth".

4th EDITION'S EVENTS

October 30, 2024 - Rome: 1st Advisory Board meeting, "The new strategy for the Mediterranean Single Special Economic Zone"

November 25, 2024 - VC: 2nd Advisory Board meeting, "Youth, education, and an academy in the Mediterranean"

January 23 2025 - Rome: 3rd Advisory Board meeting, "Mattei Plan's opportunities in the Euro-Mediterrenean framework: Fabrizio Saggio's point of view" (in synergy with TEHA Club)

February 2025 - Calabria: 1st Round Table

February 2025: 4th Advisory Board meeting

March 2025 - Sardinia: 2nd Round Table

May 15, 2025 - Sorrento: preview dedicated to students of local schools

May 16-17, 2025 - Sorrento: 4th Verso Sud Forum


For further information about the final event in Sorrento, please write an e-mail to versosud@ambrosetti.eu

Strategic Plan of the Southern Italy SEZ

1st meeting of the Advisory Board of Verso Sud 2025, with Giosy Romano, Coordinator of the "Struttura di Missione ZES Unica" of the Presidency of the Council of Ministers, Italy

In Italy, Special Economic Zones (SEZs) were created in 2017 to boost investment in the country's less developed regions, but the process that leds from creation to operativity is long and complex. Only two years after the launch of the eight SEZs in Italy, a new regulatory framework has been defined: the ZES Unica (Single SEZ), which was created within the Decreto Sud (September 2023) with the aim of creating a system of incentives to encourage growth and economic consolidation in southern areas.version)

Strategic Plan of the Southern Italy SEZ



The "Verso Sud" Forum

During the event, a new edition of the "White Book" of the Verso Sud project will be presented, along with the updated Mediterranean Sustainable Development Index (MSDI), an innovative monitoring index for the positioning of South Italy within the Mediterranean, with regards to the Sustainable Development Goals of the UN's 2030 Agenda.


2025 Scientific Committee

Enrico Giovannini (Professor, Tor Vergata Rome University and Luiss Guido Carli; former Minister for Infrastructure and Transport, Italy), Arancha González Laya (Dean, Sciences Po - Paris School for International Affairs; formerly, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Spain), Fabrizia Lapecorella (Professor, University of Bari; former General Director of the Finances Department, Ministry of Economy, Italy), Stefano Manservisi (Professor, Sciences Po - Paris School for International Affairs and EUI School of Transnational Governance; former Director General, International Cooperation and Development, European Commission).



Cetti Lauteta

Associate Partner; Head of Scenario Sud Practice

cetti.lauteta@ambrosetti.eu