The challenges facing Tuscany in relation to demographic, digital, and energy transitions – 2024 Report

The study is part of the joint activities of IRPET and the Region of Tuscany for the year 2024 and is carried out in technical assistance to the ERDF Managing Authority (Activity no. 4.2024). The report also represents one of IRPET’s evaluative contributions for 2024 to the Tuscany Smart Specialization Strategy 2021-2027, as provided for in Resolution GR no. 1321 of November 28, 2022, Annex A. The introduction (Par. 1) was edited by Nicola Sciclone and Marco Mariani; Paragraph 2 by Silvia Duranti and Maria Luisa Maitino; Paragraph 3 by Natalia Faraoni; Paragraph 4 by Leonardo Piccini. Editing by Elena Zangheri.

Tuscany’s Smart Specialization Strategy (S3) aims to promote sustainable development dynamics in response to the challenges posed by major demographic, technological, and environmental transitions and by Agenda 2030. The report is one of Irpet’s evaluative contributions for 2024 to Tuscany’s S3 2021-2027. With regard to demographic transition, particular attention will be paid to the impact of demographic trends on the availability of labor at the local level. With regard to digital transition, the report will examine Tuscany’s position in terms of innovation within the national context and reconstruct the level of digitization penetration among businesses based on new ISTAT data. Finally, with regard to the environmental transition, the characteristics of the regional energy consumption and production system will be examined, with a focus on the needs of the production system and the impact in terms of climate-changing gas emissions.