"We live in a complex world in which it has become necessary to address the issue of comparison with skills". The speech of the president of Confindustria is directed Vincenzo Boccia, who spoke this morning in the main hall of theUniversità Campus Bio-Medico di Roma during the workshop "University and business in a changing world: challenges and opportunities for the relaunch of the country system".
An appointment, following a visit to the Polyclinic and the research laboratories of the university faculties, to take stock of the relationship between university, research and the business world, in the midst of an economic situation full of challenges and unknowns.
"Behind Confindustria's economic thought there is a precise idea of an inclusive and open society" - underlined Boccia and to achieve it it is essential to focus on “an increasingly consolidated relationship between companies and universities” and then on “ideas, knowledge and skills”. Therefore, training is essential modern "especially in a country like Italy characterized by a lack of raw materials". Boccia stressed how necessary it is "get out of the subjection or conflict between companies and universities" to live this historic moment with awareness and face the challenges posed by the "culture of complexity" "methodically".
“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 - concluded Boccia - to see so many professionals working together in an interdisciplinarity dimension not only with a passion for work but also with civil commitment".
The theme of training and dialogue between university and business was at the center of the entire morning, opened by the president of the Felice University Barela, in which the honorary president Paolo Arullani recalled the mission ofuniversità Campus Bio-Medico di Roma since "supporting innovation and soft skills as an added value for students' relational skills" aiming to be more and more "a university for industry and not industry for the university. Indeed, the corporate world - he concluded Arullani - has a vital need to interact with the university and vice versa".
A speech also underlined by the rector Raffaele Calabro for which "Today the alliance between universities and companies is more strategic than ever with a view to increasingly offering person-oriented training, capable of being not only technical but also "human" training. Ours is a university that welcomes businesses, collaborates with companies, offers them spaces for dialogue and collaboration with students and researchers 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 president of Unindustria Filippo Tortoriello he talked about theUniversità Campus Bio-Medico di Roma including "a point of reference for a modern conception of academia, where the human component counts a lot but also the entrepreneurial one and where the added value is correctness and ethics, elements that also characterize our career as entrepreneurs. The close alliance between universities and companies - continued Tortoriello - must be ever stronger to create concrete and continuous results in the area”.
“In Lazio we boast a very high concentration of universities and research centres, which make it one of the richest areas in Europe. We all have what it takes for research to effectively become an element of inexhaustible capacity for innovation. However, we must activate all possible synergies to ensure that the contact between universities and companies produces constant and growing results over time".
Tortoriello recalled the framework agreement between Unindustria and the 7 main universities of Lazio which will start in the coming months "to make the most of the research effort in the regional economy by promoting technology transfer in sectors such as aerospace, life sciences, renewable energy, circular economy, cybersecurity, Ict, the tourism and cultural industry, bringing companies into university laboratories, creating quality innovation and great added value, repositioning mature production sectors, realizing degrees and doctorates already in 5.0”
It is statistics that make the increasingly close synergy between universities and businesses necessary: “According to the latest OECD report, graduates training in Italy are around 18 per cent - he recalled Tortoriello and the quantity of degrees in technical-scientific disciplines is still too low: we are ten points below Germany". A gap that risks slowing down the transformation of the economy of the future. "More graduates in scientific subjects are a necessity for the economy of the future: education without specialization in these fields not only penalizes businesses - he concluded Tortoriello - but it often favors unemployment”.
