In the past, the Fiat factories fuelled the activity in the Mirafiori Nord neighbourhood. When the car manufacturer ran into difficulties, the neighbourhood went into decline. With its concentration of social housing, the neighbourhood has all the stigmas associated with a problem area:

A number of small businesses, craft industries and retailers have set up in the Mirafiori Nord industrial zone. They are struggling to survive, however, or in some cases even to get started at all due to the difficulties of recruiting locally the skilled workers they need.

The Mirafiori Nord regeneration plan covers three main areas of intervention, symbolised by colours: green, red and blue. Green symbolises the environment. Red stands for the integration of the most disadvantaged people, in the labour market for example. Blue symbolises regeneration of the economic fabric and focuses on training.

A number of projects have been set up to achieve these aims. The "Atelier" is addressed at young people who want to invest in the new media sector. " E-Commerce" is aimed at small commercial and craft businesses seeking to develop online commerce. The most economically ambitious of them all is "LISEM" (Laboratorio di Intervento per lo Sviluppo Economico del quartiere Mirafiori), laboratory for the economic development of the Mirafiori neighbourhood.

So far, no results have been published. The project will be evaluated at the end of its implementation phase.

The total cost of the project is 42.9 million euros. The URBAN II programme of the European Commission provided 10.7 million euros.

LISEM
Phone: +39 011 316 50 00
info@lisem.it

01/01/2000

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Urban Policy > Economy knowledge & employment

Training