Dario Manna graduated in Law at the Sapienza University of Rome with a thesis on "Privacy, Bioethics and Law" for the chair of Civil Law of Prof. Stefano Rodotà, with whom he collaborated in the years following graduation. Lawyer and conciliation mediator, Dario’s main areas of interest are public procurement and consumer law. In 2002-2003 he gained a PhD from the Faculty of Law, University of Barcelona (Spain).
Since 2003, on behalf of Capitale Lavoro S.p.A., the “in-house company” of the Metropolitan City of Rome Capitale (formerly Province of Rome), he is head of European projects of the City’s Department for Job and Training policies.
He is an expert in the planning and management of complex projects in the field of local development, labour policies and training, carrying out collaborations in this field for a number of public and private organizations.
He has over 10 years’ experience in programming, coordination, monitoring and reporting of interventions co-financed by European funds, in both direct and indirect management.
Dario is the coordinator of a project funded by the European Commission, Your first EURES job, in support of European mobility for young people, at Porta Futuro – Roma (http://www.yourfirsteuresjob.eu). Through YfEj he has tested out and constituted a new and efficient public service for EURES – European Employment Services – customized with specialized services, oriented to the real needs of people looking for jobs and of businesses who want to hire selected EU workers.
Since 2012 he has been collaborating with FORMEZ PA coordinating a working group that carries out legal advice and support activities for the former European Regions in convergence objective in the definition of organizational structures and operating procedures for the implementation of Operational Plans ESF / ERDF and negotiating activity (public procurement).
Since 2014 he has also been an expert at the European Commission – DG Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion – Europe 2020: Employment policies – Mobility and Employment Services.
Dario has also been Director of Porta Futuro – Roma, since November 2015.
Presentation abstract:
Title:Managing the geographical labour mobility as a strategic tool to make communities more competitive
A Smart Sustainable City “starts a community on the path to become competitive for talent, investment, and jobs” (Aoun-Schneider Electric - 2014).
Geographical labour mobility can be a strategic tool in addressing new economic and social challenges and a potential trigger of economic growth, making communities more competitive and efficient for talent, investment and jobs.
Firstly, labour mobility contributes to improving the allocation of resources and serves as an adjustment mechanism for unbalanced labour markets whilst enabling economies to cope better with sudden shocks. Nevertheless, if we confine the potential of labour mobility only on this factor, we could foster brain-drains, making poorest the countries with an high unemployment rates and rising the economic imbalance among states.
The main objective of labour mobility must not definitely be to encourage brain-drains or limit the number of vacancies for national jobless people, but rather to acquire diversified knowledge and skills: labour mobility can promote knowledge transfer, innovation and human capital development, which is essential in a context of quick technological change and global competition. A foreign workforce can make governments and businesses more innovative and competitive and help them to take more advantage of opportunities on the international marketplace. It creates interaction between citizens, and it can improve mutual understanding, contribute to making societies more tolerant and inclusive and strengthen the worldwide citizenship values.
Key factors to foster this favourable labour-mobility are a supranational governance, a public-private cooperation, ICT platform featuring a set of tools regarding job postings, job tracking, searches, alerts, matching and data management
European Union has a lot of best practises in this field. Labour mobility is a cornerstone in the EU integration: EU promotes labour mobility and assists the member states on the removal of existing obstacles. Several EU legal and operational initiatives focus on supporting free movement of EU citizens, not only as an individual right of each citizen, but also in the collective interest as Europeans that people are mobile and ready to cross borders.
Mainly, it will be presented a model created to manage intra-EU labour mobility, in the framework of the new EURES 2016 Regulation: the EU initiative “Your first EURES job”, managed by the Metropolitan City of Rome with the Italian Ministry of Labour Policies, and the technical assistance of Capitale Lavoro S.p.A, the “in house providing Company” of the Metropolitan City of Rome (ex art. 12 - Directive 2014/24/EU on Public Procurement).
