ART-ER Attractiveness Research Territory is the Emilia-Romagna Joint Stock Consortium Company born with the purpose of fostering the region’s sustainable growth by developing innovation and knowledge, attractiveness and internationalisation of the territory. The consortium is participated by several stakeholders, including Emilia-Romagna Region, 5 regional Universities, National Research Centres located in the region, the Regional Union of Chambers of Commerce, Metropolitan City of Bologna, other local representatives. The activities of ART-ER includes: coordination and development of the regional ecosystem for innovation, support to startups and boosting business; sustainable territorial development, internationalisation and attractiveness of the community and promotion of investments in Emilia-Romagna; promotion of the region’s productive systems and cities through projects on infrastructure, social innovation, skills development and environmental sustainability; designing, management, monitoring of strategic programmes and projects; research on the region’s social and economic assets. ART-ER participates in the project with the Unit “Skills and Territories for Innovation”, which encompasses focuses on skills mismatch mitigation and talents attraction and valorisation addressing in particular the following topics i) highly specialized talents empowerment and their connection with industry; ii) Skills forecast and foresight; iii) Youth engagement and participation.