NAPLES (ITALPRESS) – The fourth edition of the “Smart Infrastructures & Construction Academy” was inaugurated today. The SIC Academy is a higher education reality of the Federico University, which brings together the Federico II’s Centro Servizi Metrologici e Tecnologici Avanzati (CeSMA) and Autostrade per l’Italia Group, with the aim of training experts in the design, management, construction services and monitoring of road system infrastructures.”The Sic Academy is part of an important project that the Federico II has been carrying out for many years with regard to the maintenance and monitoring of large infrastructures,” said Naples Mayor Gaetano Manfredi. “A topic that represents one of the great challenges we face, with the aim of training new professionals, while also guaranteeing qualified employment for the many young engineers who graduate from our universities and thus have the possibility of a well-defined path. Not only training, but also employment, making their skills available for the country’s great infrastructures. “The Sic Academy,” emphasized Roberto Tomasi, CEO of Autostrade per l’Italia, “is an excellence that well represents our commitment to training those talents who will have to face the great challenges of mobility from now until the coming decades. This academy is also an example of how the synergy between academia and industry produces benefits for society as a whole. We are betting on Italian engineering skills, in coherence with our industrial plan, with which we aim to return to the country an increasingly modern and sustainable highway network. “The 6-month training course developed by Aspi, in collaboration with Adecco, is aimed this year at 14 young engineers. The educational activities will take place for 100 hours per month within dedicated SICAcademy spaces at the San Giovanni a Teduccio technology hub of the University of Naples Federico II and for 20 hours per month at Aspi’s corporate offices. From January to July 2025, the candidates, selected and placed at one of the Autostrade per l’Italia Group companies, will be involved in multidisciplinary activities such as lectures, technical and laboratory visits, exercises, project-work and in-company activities. At the end of the training course, the selected participants will be hired at one of the Autostrade per l’Italia Group companies. “The Sic Academy,” stresses Andrea Prota, president of the Polytechnic School and Basic Sciences of the Federico II University and scientific head of the Academy, “is now in its fourth edition and represents a well-established training model born from the virtuous collaboration between Aspi-Autostrade per l’Italia and the University of Naples Federico II. I am grateful to our partners at Autostrade per l’Italia who have once again renewed their trust in us. Many young colleagues who attended the previous editions are working in Autostrade group companies or otherwise working in the construction, maintenance and management of road infrastructure. This is a good concrete example of a ‘third mission’ for the university system.” Thus, the synergy between the ASPI Group and the Federico II University is confirmed to train professionals, experts in the integrated engineering and construction supply chain, with specialized skills in infrastructure design and construction, in the use of drones, 3D printers for construction, satellites and fiber optics for monitoring works of art.Also speaking at the event were Councillor for Infrastructure, Mobility, Civil Protection of the City of Naples Edoardo Cosenza, President of the Order of Engineers of Naples Gennaro Annunziata, President of Amplia Amedeo Gagliardi and President of Tecne Ennio Cascetta.”Also for this edition of the SicAcademy,” recalled the president of the Engineers of Naples Gennaro Annunziata, “my Order wanted to support the initiative, offering members of the Register the opportunity to follow online some lessons of the course, with recognition of training credits. The level of the teaching staff and the breadth of the topics covered guarantee a further opportunity to propose a quality educational offering that is appropriate to the times. I consider of particular interest, in addition to the usual insights devoted to the more purely structural part, the teaching modules dedicated to the use of Artificial Intelligence for the monitoring of infrastructures and their smart management.”
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