The president of Confindustria explains the importance of the relationship between training and the world of industry
24 January 2019 – Students today are increasingly looking for training that can place them adequately in the world of work. But how can the university be ready to respond to this challenge?
This was discussed on Wednesday 23 January together with the president of Confindustria Vincenzo Boccia during the workshop "University and business in a changing world: challenges and opportunities for the relaunch of the country system". With him, the president of Unindustria Filippo Tortoriello and the whole University represented by the president Felice Barela, the honorary president Paolo Arullani and by the rector Raffaele Calabrò. On this occasion theUniversità Campus Bio-Medico di Roma he recounted his experience of a university which has always held the relations between business and university in high regard.
In his speech, President Boccia explained: “We live in a complex world in which it has become necessary to address the issue of comparing skills" and for this reason universities must be able to respond to the needs of businesses, training young people who are capable and mainly able to orient themselves in an economic situation full of challenges. It is a matter of establishing a pact between universities and businesses, which includes a project aimed at training of future workers and which at the same time aims at the interest of the entire country.
Honorary President Paolo Arullani and the rector Raffaele calabrò, who spoke during the meeting, wanted to underline the mission ofUniversità Campus Bio-Medico di Roma in supporting a "human" and innovative training method, which allows students to live close to businesses, collaborating with companies, which never forgets the specific needs of the young person.
“Ours is a university that welcomes businesses, collaborates with companies, offers them spaces for dialogue and collaboration with students and researchers - he stressed calabrò - and cooperates in the creation of new businesses, especially those founded by young people. An important role above all because Italy is the country of thousands of small and medium-sized enterprises that have made and are making our well-being".
The meeting began with a visit to the hospital and the various research laboratories of the university faculties, at the end of which the president Boccia has ofchiarahave: “Walking around todayUniversità Campus Bio-Medico di Roma I saw passion, competence, responsibility. People who work and have a project in mind, close to patients with pride and a sense of identity. It is fascinating to see so many professionals working together in an interdisciplinarity dimension not only with a passion for work but also with civil commitment".
An impression also confirmed by the president of Unindustria Tortoriello for which UCBM is "point of reference for a modern conception of academia, where the human component counts a lot but also the entrepreneurial one and where added value is correctness and ethics, elements that also characterize our path as entrepreneurs".
Tortoriello he also recalled the agreement between Unindustria and the 7 main universities of Lazio which will begin in the coming months, to bring companies into university laboratories so that technological progress can be transferred to sectors such as aerospace, life sciences, renewable energies, and to give therefore added value to degrees in these scientific fields. In fact, according to the latest OECD report (Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development), graduates training in Italy in technical-scientific sectors are around 18 percent, still too low quality compared to other European countries. "More graduates in scientific subjects are a necessity for the economy of the future: education without specialization in these fields not only penalizes companies - he concluded Tortoriello - but it often favors unemployment”.