Ideas and suggestions to become protagonists in the world of work: the event with over 30 companies
23 March, 2018 - Being protagonists of one's own professional career since the university years, merging a solid education with the awareness of living in a global job market in which an increasingly central role will be occupied by soft skills and relational aspects. Job Day was a day full of stimuli and opportunities for discussion UCBM 2018 "University, work and service to society" in which the guests who attended, introduced by the Rector's greetings Raffaele Calabrò, have traced the picture of a rapidly evolving world of work in which it is allowed to dream, indeed it is necessary to do so in order to reinvent reality starting from original points of view.
How they did it Adriana Santanocito ed Enrica Arena founding Orange Fiber, the Catania company that produces a soft silk-like yarn starting from orange peels. A speech full of passion by Adriana who, starting from her studies in design and fashion, looked differently at one of Sicily's heritages: the oranges. Her vision landed in the laboratories of the Milan Polytechnic and was then supported by entrepreneurs and international awards until the creation of the first fashion collection with the prestigious Salvatore Ferragamo brand. The story of Orange Fiber, which today employs various professional figures and has registered its patent with the countries that produce the largest quantities of orange juice in the world, tells in its own way "the time of new heroes", the book by Oscar Di Montigny, Marketing and Communication director of Banca Mediolanum, who recommended to the students to develop their vocation: “Millennials are destined not to be tied down to a job for life, but to face numerous and different occupational challenges – explained Di Montigny - It becomes essential to build an intellectual predisposition and aptitude versatility that allow you to move from one job to another in a fluid way. Always educate yourself and innovate, learn about new technologies and new languages, but above all, prepare to be protagonists every day, to really make a difference in a world that requires it".
The phase of great transformation of sectors such as industry, healthcare and the biomedical sector poses crucial challenges such as that of a more efficient technology transfer. The relationship between universities, research centers and companies was one of the topics addressed by speakers such as Massimiliano Bobjects, president of Assobiomedica e Roberto Battiston, president of the Italian Space Agency, presented by the professor Simonetta Filippi, professor of Physics and Vice-Rector for University Education ofUniversità Campus Bio-Medico di Roma.
“Technology transfer as a connection between education, research and innovation is the engine on which to graft the creativity, enthusiasm and professional preparation of students and its efficiency represents a primary objective for all universities. The Campus Bio-Medico University wants to act as a propellant for all of this to happen and thus be able to generate qualified work in a society that looks to the future.”Philippi said.
The president of Assobiomedica Boggetti focused on the same issues: “To make the evolution of medicine of the future possible in Italy too, we must create an ecosystem that enhances the relationship between the academic and industrial worlds, in order to encourage the birth of new technologies and the consequent technology transfer". Boggetti said. “It is essential today – continues the president of Assobiomedica – focus on the constant collaboration of industry with research centres, universities, technological clusters and start-ups that populate our territory”.
Anticipated by a video greeting from astronaut Paolo Nespoli, the president of the Italian Space Agency, Roberto BattistonFinally, he stressed that "the new space economy is a formidable opportunity for the growth of society and the Italian economy. To seize it, however, we need to put our scientific, technological and industrial skills into a system. This is a precondition for our system to continue to be not only as competitive as it is today, but capable of determining development trends in the aerospace sector. Indeed, Italy has a structural communication problem between the world of research, industry and applications”.
The round table was followed by interventions by Giorgio Vittadini, professor at the Bicocca University of Milan, Gian Andrea Fanella, former Ucbm student and now Marketing Manager of GreenVulcanoTechnologies and Alessandro Ghielmi, Research and Development Manager at Solvay. In the afternoon, space for meetings with over thirty companies present (Ernst&Young, Masmec, Das Italy, Lutech, Eon, Aidic, Gst Engineering, Aetos, Salini Impregilo, Ibm, Technip Fmp, Cargill, Castelli, Abbott, Pedevilla, Ds Medica, Gruppo Innova, Dicofarm, Papa Dolceamaro, Serenissima Group, Findus, Maurizi Group, Fosan, Elekta, Synergy Theme, General Electric, Canon, Samsung, Advanced Technologies, Lavoropiù Group) who collected the curricula of the students and answered their questions.
