Luca Alippi, Managing Director of EP Produzione; Sergio Emidio Bini, Councillor of Friuli Venezia Giulia Region. Introduced by Giovanni Mulazzani, Researcher Department of Legal Sciences Alma Mater Studiorum, University of Bologna.

One of the sustainability goals promoted by the UN is to “build resilient infrastructure and promote innovation and fair, responsible and sustainable industrialisation”. Innovation and sustainable infrastructure are thus identified as essential tools for productivity and income growth. All legislators, also under the thrust of EU legislation, are going in this direction, encouraging the conversion and the creation of innovative and sustainable infrastructure. Infrastructure must therefore be designed by considering global and territorial sustainability at the same time, also giving them attractive and qualifying functions so that they can generate economic and social value without any environmental impact. Is a new scenario really emerging, in which the development of sustainable networks becomes an opportunity for economic and social development for local communities?