From Pavia to the center of Milan, repairing and reinventing sneakers. As with ideas and courage, a profession can be revolutionized. And earn well
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The luxury sector is worth around 1.2 billion Euro worldwide. In Italy, it accounts for 5% of GDP. Consumers all over the world are well aware of the quality of high-end Italian products. Yet in 5 years, there will be 50,000 vacant jobs
Cooperation, skill and a pride for things well done: this is the recipe for employability, according to the London School of Economics sociologist: The world of work should foster bonds, not break them down with resentment multipliers
Interview with the author of Futuro Artigiano: Schools are essential: Sweden’ secondary technical schools churn out 800,000 technicians per year, whereas in Italy this figure is at most 10,000. It is only by combining culture with technology that we can hope to restore substance to the world of work
Our country should stop selling cars with diesel or petrol engines by 2035 and switch to electric cars. New skills, new professional profiles and more research will be needed
“Psychology and the Good Life”, taught by Laurie Santos at Yale, has become the most popular course in the history of the prestigious American university. Yet there is no shortage of examples in Italy as well
Software developers, engineers and computer scientists will be leading the first phase of creating a virtual reality for avatars. But eventually a detailed world will have to be created, and this will only be possible with architects, designers, mathematicians and many other professional profiles.