Campobasso Local Action Plan RUnUP Thematic Network AN URBACT II PROJECT II URBACT AN 2 Contents Foreword The Economic Assessment Campobasso in the RUnUP project How RUnUP relates to local strategies The role of Universities in Campobasso The URBACT Local Support Group Network event participation Campobasso Local Action Plan Conclusions 3 Foreword The RUnUP project represents a significant aspect of the Of course this means that the administration is in the complex effort of Campobasso community towards the front row to try to remove this difficult situation, putting re-qualification of Campobasso city as a regional capital. in motion resources, including private, for the recovery So a challenge, on one hand the need to confirm and affirm of the economy, to rebuild the trust of citizens urging its role as a regional capital city, the other must meet the the authorities and potential investors in a common external challenges in order to avoid marginalization and project, in order to make the city more liveable. To do provincialism where medium-sized cities may fall. this we need to intercept the needs and turn them into development policies, also with the support of funding at Surely this cannot be just the challenge of the national regional, European level. administration but should be a shared path shaking deep in the conscience of citizens and of all economic and The strategies adopted must deploy all the energy we scientific operators. need to bring out the individual and collective capacities to activate networking urban policies, keeping in mind This work is complex, it’s not enough producing strategic the employment, social cohesion and sustainable physical documents and proclamations but we have to immerse transformation of the area. ourselves in the reality of the needs of the people and civil society to understand how to overcome the impasse The middle-size city of Campobasso, only in this way can of the present situation that every day becomes more lift his head and revive its cultural social and economic difficult. identity, which was also based on quality crafts. The economic crisis gripping everyone, especially the No coincidence that these themes are reflected in small communities like ours, funds are scarce and we the Local Action Plan and in the non-profit activities have to give breath and life to new investment and new promoted by our administration. It must again point out recipes for young people who migrate for those who lose the realities of quality such as our research and cultural their jobs work for the marginalized and for those who centres that are making this city and this region, a small love this place and live in the city, avoiding, as on so many chest of knowledge. occasions, to leave our reality. Mayor, Luigi di Bartolomeo 4 The Economic Assessment Enterprises. In 2008, the number of active enterprises (Movimprese - Infocamere) in LAP area amounts The socio-economic area considered by the LAP to 5,953, with 463 new units compared with 460 is made by the Municipality capital and the ten recorded deaths, a birth rate and mortality of 6.8%. Municipalities in the belt of Campobasso, that The values show, for the LAP area, a more dynamic and are Busso, Baranello, Campodipietra, Ferrazzano, entrepreneurial tendency than the provincial average Matrice, Mirabello, Oratino, Ripalimosani, Vinchiaturo (birth rate 5.3%) and than the regional one (birth rate and San Giovanni in Galdo. 5.6%). Relevant aspects of the area are: From a structural standpoint, the distribution of economic Population. Population growing and moving fro one activities, in terms of sectoral distribution of total local Municipality to the other. To 2009 (ISTAT data) the units on the sectors concerned (ISTAT census 2001), in population considered by the LAP the LAP has about the territory of the LAP show, in line with the regional 73,000 inhabitants, 23% of the total regional population, data, the prevalence of service/trades sector, 45.3% registering a growth trend of 4.7% compared to 1991 against 40% for the entire region, 33% for both LAP that data reported in countertendency with respect to the area for the region; but the the incidence of industry is downward trend for the regional population (-3%). lower (9.8% and 11.5%) and construction (11.5% and 14.3%). The distribution of the population in the reference area is obviously very biased in favour of the city Local Economy. The SSL Campobasso shows in 2005 of Campobasso, that alone adds up to 71% to the a value added at basic prices (per capita) of €18,198, entire population, although there is an on-going an increase of 3.6% compared to 2001. At the sectoral transfer phenomenon of families who live and work in level, data on the distribution system of the area are Campobasso, towards the small municipalities there are confirmed, in fact, 81% of the value added is attributable in the first city belt with a population increase of those to the service/trades sector, compared with a 15.8% of ones. In fact, during the reporting period, population industry and a residual 2.8% agriculture (ISTAT data). growth in the city of Campobasso is 0.5%, while The personal income tax for residents of the LAP area the neighbouring municipalities are registering very is €6,943, higher than the regional average which is marked increases: Campodipietra (+50.7%), Ferrazzano €5953.7 (Censis, 2008). (+30.6%), Mirabello (+18.4%), Oratino (+20.7%), Ripalimosani (+16.8%), Vinchiaturo (+19.7%); for the The analysis examines the main indicators of economic remaining municipalities of the area there is a contraction development, ie Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and of the population. rates of economic growth, integrating the information derived in this way with the conclusions resulting from These municipalities are also changing their demographic the study of data on the sectoral composition of the tendency, reversing the ageing processes that economic system and the structural number and type characterize the whole territory, but more generally the of active enterprises in the region. In this way you can whole region, because the common boundary of an index describe the structure of the economic system of the of all recorded significantly lower than the average age of Molise region in the light of the dynamics of development the area which is equal to 147%. recorded. Employment. The local labour market of Campobasso, The analysis of data in the Territorial Economic Accounts represents, in terms of population, about 63% of the produced by ISTAT, shows how the Molise region is Local Labour System (SSL, statistical homogeneous area characterized by a level of GDP per capita significantly by ISTAT), shows an activity rate amounted to 45.5, lower than the level recorded in the rest of Italy (Table 1). better than the value recorded for the other SSL, with The comparison of the values at the regional level allows, the exception of Isernia (46.7); the employment rate is however, to evidence that while the performance trials 40.8, higher than the values of the other SSL, with the are significantly lower than those recorded at the northern exception of Montenero di Bisaccia (41.7), Termoli (41) and central regions, levels of economic development and Isernia (42.8); the unemployment rate amounted to occurred in Molise are substantially higher compared to 10.3, which is higher than the values recorded for the those characterizing the regions of Southern Italy, with other SSL. the exception of Abruzzo. 5 Although consistent with the conclusions discussed In this context, it is worth highlighting that within the above, apart from 2008 for which are obvious the secondary sector, as generally occurs, the manufacturing effects of the economic crisis, the results obtained industry appears to be the primary production sector. from the calculation of growth rates of GDP per capita Moreover, within this, in Molise, mechanical engineering annual and annual average in 2000-2008, identify the (29% in 2007) is particularly important in terms of substantial static nature of the economic system both at production capacity, followed by metallurgical and from national and regional level, with growth rates significantly food processing (15,43% and 15,08% respectively in lower than 1% and in some cases negative. 2007). It highlights the trend of reduction in production capacity allocated to the textile and clothing sector with The economic system is divided into three macro- values ranging from 14,70% in 2000 to 12,73% in sectors, ie ‘Agriculture, forestry and fishing’, ‘Industry’ 2007. and ‘Service’ (bold in Table 5). The sum of the values comprises the total value added of the economic system. Using data provided by the Chamber of Commerce of The highlighted lines for each of the three fields describe Molise on the dynamics of birth/death of businesses the composition in terms of economic activities, eg the (Movimprese investigation), it can be seen in the second primary sector is made up 93.63% from the agricultural quarter of 2010 in California there are 35.752 registered activities. enterprises, of which 75% in the province of Campobasso and remaining 25% in the province of Isernia (Table Finally, for the structurally more complex economic 6). It shows that the proportions in the distribution of activities it describes the typological composition in order the relative abundance of business between the two to proceed to a better understanding of the economic provinces is substantially stable within the different system of the region, eg the activity of trade which sectors defined by the use of codes of economic activity represents 29.65% of the tertiary sector and is made (ATECO codes).