(Finance) – Concluded this afternoon there first edition of the SI Academy – Smart Infrastructures Academy of the University of San Giovanni a Teduccio, a project born from the partnership between the Federico II University of Naples and Tecnea company of the Autostrade per l’Italia Group.
The initiative is part of the project “Highways of Knowledge” which aspires to build a bridge between Autostrade per l’Italia and the most important national universities. The SI Academy is by the way one of the 9 Academies that the Frederick II has established thanks to the collaboration with companies of international importance, which offer training courses and high-level training courses on issues of particular importance for the production fabric, developing skills and soft skills.
During ceremony in the Aula Magna of the Universityin the presence of Rector Matteo Loritofrom the president of ASPI Elisabetta Oliveri he was born in Mayor of Naples Gaetano Manfredihave been awarded the diplomas to first 24 young engineers recent graduates and a 12 employees of the Group (between ASPI, Tecne and Naples ring road).
Thanks to this initiative, the Autostrade per l’Italia Group, which has more than 1,000 employees in Campania, can draw on a “pool of talent” for the new hires envisaged by the transformation plan. To the 24 young people engineers was indeed delivered a hiring proposal in the company. And thanks to the success of the first initiative, the Group announced the launch of the call for the second editionwith an increase of 50% of the available places (from 24 to 36 students) and with the payment of 7 scholarships to partially cover the costs for off-site students. The selections will take place between June and July and the lessons will start between September and October.
“The Academy model is evolving. This is a new version, an Academy 4.0, which covers a fundamental sector such as that of infrastructure management and monitoring”, said the Rector Matteo Loritoexplaining that “the issue is often not just building infrastructures but managing them”.
“Competence is a strategic development factor and our Group invests in the training of young talents, generating value and innovation to maintain competitiveness in the labor market, placing people more and more at the center of our industrial processes and looking at the needs in terms of skills at the country-system level “, says the President of Autostrade per l’Italia Elisabetta Oliveri., recalling that “women represent 30% of students who attended the course”.
“We are proud to welcome in the ASPI team the young engineers who have taken up the challenge and the opportunity to contribute their skills to a project that is an integral part of the country’s growth”, he says. Gian Luca OreficeHuman Capital Organization Director, explaining n that “this project is one of the fundamental building blocks of Autostrade del Sapere, the broadest path undertaken by the Group to increase knowledge and attract professionals in the infrastructure sector, creating an ecosystem with university excellence , defining agreements with the major Italian universities “.
“The first edition that ends today attracted about 200 candidates from all over Italy; the selections then allowed to select the 24 learners who, every other week, met with 12 technicians already employed by the ASPI group. A contamination among young people. graduates with different civil engineering specializations, and among young graduates and senior colleagues, “explained the professor Andrea Protadirector of the Department of Structures for Engineering and Architecture of the Neapolitan University.