Abstract

The pandemic crisis has contributed to enlarge the generational divide that already strongly penalized young people in Italy. This paper aims at providing the basis for an impact assessment of public interventions in this field. The starting point is a qualitative-quantitative analysis of the European and national resources that have been made available to counter this phenomenon by the Italian National Recovery and Resilience Plan and by the other European countries’ RRPs, together with a mapping of the generational and quasi-generational interventions within the RRP itself and the Budget Laws adopted before and after the Pandemic. The Assessment will be useful to determine whether the targets set by the RRP for the horizontal priority given to young people are realistic, or if there is a lack of indicators that needs to be complemented using the set of indicators made available by the Generational Divide Index (GDI), without forgetting the foresight impact of the ecological and digital transition and the Agenda 2030 sustainable development goals (SDGs).