Paris has just opened the world’s largest business accelerator. A sign of a country that invests in innovation despite the crisis
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Three hundred professional training centres are experimenting with the dual system for the first time in Italy. The outcome was positive, and so now its time to stabilise the situation.
The workforce is ageing, but seniors are more than just seniors now. And ageing is not the same as before. Much depends on companies.
Managing stress, identifying and resolving conflict, asking for help: these skills are not present on your CV, but they are essential for enterprises. Candidates and assessors are faced with the challenge of identifying, assessing and building them
A training programme for workers of all ages and positions would improve productivity and qualifications of staff, also facilitating their redeployment.
The Director of the OCSE Department of Labour and Social Policies has no doubts: “Automation will not create unemployment. The only way to limit the polarizing effect between workers and high and low qualifications will be continuous training.”
There are over 400 co-working spaces in Italy, a wave that is revolutionising the world of work. Here’s why:
In Italy, the mismatch between school and the productive world is still quite significant. But the wind is changing: during the 2015/16 school year, 45.8% of students in the third, fourth, and fifth year of secondary school experienced work/school alternation, as against 18.5% the year before
An all-round conversation with the Minister of Labour: The signs are positive, but there’s still a lot to do. Advice for young people? Focus on welfare and technology.
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.