Made in Italy with an International Twist: The Future of Technical Education

Made in Italy with an international accent. With the students of higher technical institutes engaged in the "Design the future" challenge, the initiative organized by the Fondazione Its NewtechSI Academy which saw, for the first time in Campania, an intercultural exchange between Campanian and Madrilenian students to share, exchange, and build new perspectives. At the heart are the study methodologies, marketing simulations with assigned case histories. In Baronissi, at the Skills consulting headquarters, to welcome the boys and to illustrate the purposes of the meeting: Roberto Sanseverino, president of Its NewtechSI Academy, Alessia Giunti director of Its NewtechSI Academy, Vincenzo Vietri, CEO of Skills, founding company of Its NewtechSI Academy, Biagio Garofalo CEO of Studio Ingegneria Integrata Garofalo & Partners S.r.L. In Italy, 87% of the graduates from an Its course are employed with a contract. Similar data to the European ones. The big difference between the Italian model and that of other countries, however, is the participation of young people in the courses. Abroad, the higher technical institutes refer to important models: in Switzerland and Germany, the weight of tertiary vocational education involves 40% of young people, and in France and Spain it is just under 30%, while in Italy it represents just over 1%. Hence the commitment of the Fondazione Its to train figures increasingly integrated, called to provide consultancy to companies in Campania and in Italy in the production of Made in Italy products. New calls for applications for a two-year study period are expected in September.