Eight proposals to promote competitiveness, Sustainability and attractiveness of the sea supply chain Italian. They are those identified by the professional group of consultancy The European House - Ambrosetti within the 16 guidelines contained in the National Plan of the Sea, the instrument of Programming with which the Government and Parliament have been equipped for launch a unitary and strategic maritime policy, to be updated every three years, which was developed and approved by part of CIPOM (Interministerial Committee for the Policies of the Sea).

The eight proposals were presented today in Trieste in the first of the two days of the first edition of the Sea Resource Forum created by The European House - Ambrosetti in collaboration with the Ministry for Civil Protection and Maritime Policies and with the patronage of the Presidency of the Council of Ministers, initiative that includes an annual comparison appointment and itinerant to be carried out in a different port city for each edition.

The eight macro-areas of activity have been identified through interviews with stakeholders, engagement of partners of the Platform, proprietary analysis and study processing international strategic and for each one a series of proposals to unleash the potential of the country-system: logistics and ports, maritime industry, energy of sea, fish industry, environmental protection, diving, coastal tourism and international cooperation.

With regard to the logistics and port segment Three directions have been outlined on which to act: Italian port system of a unitary governance to overcome the current fragmentation and strengthening its coordination, favouring planning and attraction of long-term investments; assign financial and managerial autonomy to the Authorities Docks to attract investments also through the articulation public-private partnerships; set up a control room for the port investments defining the priorities of allocation of funds towards environmental sustainability, digitalization and infrastructure development.

For the maritime industry, it is proposed to Maritime and shipbuilding arrangement profiles specialized necessary giving life to a Training Academy able to to attract young talents from Italy and abroad, which develop multidisciplinary profiles consistent with current needs and perspective of the sector and that has a strong permeability with the private sector and industry. It is also noted that, a administrative level, it is necessary to streamline, simplify and digitise procedures as well as promote a regulatory and fiscal alignment among member countries, counteracting the current fiscal dumping of countries such as Malta and Cyprus.

With regard to energy from the sea, it should be noted that the parks floating offshore wind represent the possibility of increase the production of renewable energy from wind power and proposes to promote a system action to promote development of the offshore wind supply chain through the creation of a process of prior consultation between the State and local authorities for define the areas of development of offshore wind overcoming misalignments and appeals.

For the fish supply chain, the priority identified is that of equipping workers in the sector with educational qualifications appropriate - issued by specialized technical institutes - and support a process of innovation through teaching and dissemination of sustainable fishing models and methods.

In the field of environmental protection it is considered indispensable finalize the National Plan for Adaptation to Change Climate (PNACC) for planning and implementation of actions adaptation and foster collaboration between excellences of the Italian research and innovation ecosystem through the public-private collaboration. In addition, it is proposed to create a Research Centre on Climate Change and its impacts in the Mediterranean in which there is a strong applied component, research and development of frontier solutions and technologies (eg. wave energy production, etc.).

With regard to the underwater dimension, it is proposed to strengthen the appropriate resources and skills of the National Diving Pole that was established in December 2022 to aggregate the different industrial and research sectors and to converge efforts to Technological development: an initiative - it is emphasized - that has not equal in the EU but which has an economic endowment of only two million of euros.

For coastal tourism it is suggested the creation of a Higher Education Presidium for the professionalism of the tourism with a research center, a doctoral school, a international vocation with collaboration agreements for themes relevant with the best universities in the world.

With regard to international cooperation, it should be noted that in this The main challenge in the Mediterranean basin concerns migration and demographic trends and measures are proposed to to achieve effective management of the phenomenon and to make immigration is an opportunity for development for the country.