Employment is the topic for Public Assembly of the University of Trento 2015, scheduled on 3rd June 2015. Preparatory meetings have been organised in view of this year’s edition.
The first was held on 3rd March 2015, at the Rector’s Office. The meeting’s protagonists have been the Trade Unions with the coordinator of the local TU Cgil del Trentino, Andrea Grosselli; the coordinator of the local TU Cisl del Trentino, Lorenzo Pomini and the coordinator of the local TU Uil del Trentino, Walter Alotti.
In a joint document, “Job+”, the TU stated: “Our common goal is to create the basis for a more dynamic, safe and skilled labour market, thanks to a more innovative economic system”. Within this framework the University of Trento is required to play an increasingly active role”.
The TU underlined their “worries for the decrease in the number of high-school students residing in the Province of Trento, who enrol to university: in the last decade it dropped from 70% to 58%. We need to invert this trend to guarantee a constant growth of the HR capital in Trentino”.
The local TU underlined that the public and private system need to foster the willingness to invest in R&D.
The TU are aware of the potential contribution of the University in the field of technology transfer and innovation, training of people employed in the sector of industrial relations and in the strengthening of participative contractual bargaining. Hence the TU encouraged new combinations of school/work, also within the University study programmes, the flexibility of their contents, the strengthening and coordination of advanced training internships, job guidance, labour requalification and initiatives in the field of long-life training and professional refresher courses.
The President of the University of Trento, Innocenzo Cipolletta listened to the speeches delivered by the TU representatives, who is in charge, according to the Statute, to call the University Public Assembly and the meetings with the economic and social stakeholders of the area, in agreement with the Rector.
The Deputy Rector, Aronne Armanini and the newly elected Rector, Paolo Collini, also participated in the meeting. Professor Giorgio Bolego, the Rector’s delegate for the technical and administrative staff, Sandro Trento, member of the Scientific Committee of the Board of Employment, Paola Villa, professor of Economics of Labour also attended the meeting.
At the end of the works, and waiting for further preparatory meetings, the President Cipolletta underlined the willingness of the University in being involved in the provision of high-quality education and in increasing the employability of graduates.
Cipolletta highlighted that “As stated in the University strategic plan, the University aims at training, in a European context, skilled graduates, with adequate skills, conscious, curious, innovative, willing to explore the various types of knowledge. It favours the quality of education, applying innovative approaches, tuning the courses on the need to improve the employability of graduates and intensifying the services to job guidance and to create connections with the labour market”.