A rebound in GDP of over six points, with the full recovery of pre-Covid levels in 2022. Pavia he embarks on the path of growth, achieving results even better than the regional average. The progression of the added value of 2023 – in fact – will bring the figure almost five points the pre-pandemic levels, over a point and a half beyond the results of Lombardy. Data presented by Assolombarda on the occasion of the “Pavia, sustainable by choice” event, which saw the involvement of companies, institutions and trade associations.
«Pavia – explains the president of Assolombarda Alessandro Spada – is reacting, and is doing it well, after a complex period, even beyond the pandemic. Its territory is expressing a strong energy towards the future, towards the reinterpretation of its potential, towards taking responsibility towards future generations. ”Ecological and digital transition are considered unique opportunities, in the light of the National Recovery and Resilience Plan. “I think a new Pavia is being born – he said Nicola de Cardenas, president of the Pavese headquarters in Assolombarda – a new Pavia in the name of sustainability and technology, in the balanced relationship between economic activities, the environment, society, which is the natural vocation for a territory like ours. For us entrepreneurs, taking care of the area where we operate and live is part of our being a community. Here, on the outskirts of Milan, in synergy with the metropolitan city, there is the possibility of a balanced relationship between economic activities, the environment, society “.
The event is also an opportunity for an update of the initiatives underway in the area, triggered by the strategic relaunch plan conceived by Assolombarda and presented a year ago, a project that had at its center the systemization and involvement on operational sites, of excellence of the territory: businesses, universities, local authorities.
The progress with respect to the strategic plan presented by Assolombarda highlighted important initiatives: the project of the Cardano Technological Park University, the increase in the offer of ITS courses, with a two-year study cycle already started on mechatronics, organized with the Foundation Lombardia Mechatronics, the regeneration projects of long-abandoned industrial areas, such as the Necchi and Neca areas in an advanced stage of reclamation, entrepreneurial investments in sustainability, national initiatives on higher university courses, in artificial intelligence and climate change, the relaunch of thermalism in the Oltrepò through important investments, a new and extensive planning for a leadership of the Vigevano district in technologies for footwear.
All while the ascent continues after the covid emergency. A high share of the companies interviewed by the Centro Studi, equal to almost a third, recorded a growth in turnover both in 2020 and in 2021. To this is added a large audience of 39% which will close the gap compared to 2019 by this time year: 21% with an increase in turnover compared to 2019, 18% returning on line. A further 18% of respondents expect to fill the gap by 2022. However, 13% of companies remain that will not be able to recover in the medium term what they lost with the pandemic. The gap in terms of added value per inhabitant compared to Milan remains wide, albeit slightly reduced: just over 23 thousand euros for Pavia, almost 50 thousand for the capital.