ROME (ITALPRESS) – More than eight and a half million euros to provide opportunities for companies to train their employees “on the job,” with simple procedures and taking advantage of new technologies. This is the allocation of resources for 2025 programmed by Fondoprofessioni, the national interprofessional Joint Fund for continuing education in professional firms and related companies.President Marco Natali, interviewed by Claudio Brachino for the television magazine Italpress Economy, explained that “the mission of the fund is to finance, provide contributions, non-refundable and anyone can join, companies in various sectors as well as professional firms can join.” The fund was created as a result of the Interconfederal Agreement of Nov. 7, 2003, between Confprofessioni, Confedertecnica, Cipa and Cgil, Cisl, Uil.The allocation of resources for 2025 amounts to about 8.6 million euros, but “we will allocate more, we will probably put at least a million more. The types of interventions are various, we do different types of notices, after a series of evaluations we give rewards to those who do training of a certain type such as, for example, on Artificial Intelligence, digitalization, gender equality, organization, soft skills. Important topics today for professional firms that often struggle to find staff. “Among the problems in the labor market is precisely the gap between supply and demand, and training can play a role in reducing it. “The purpose of the fund is precisely to give opportunities for training,” Natali explains.Among our members are professional firms and small companies, with simple procedures we give them the opportunity to train their employees. We have launched a notice that focuses a lot on digitization and Artificial Intelligence to prepare the over-55s and on the other side to train new hires. And you do the training in your workplace, ‘on the job'”.Speaking of Artificial Intelligence, for Natali “it can be very useful for workers, but they have to learn how to use these tools. The first ones who should use it, understand how it works, are the trainers themselves, the philosophy must be that those who use the tool must be the first to learn how to use it and then popularize it. Like all tools it should be known, neither demonized nor exalted. “Continuing education is the greatest welfare we can give to workers, and it is also good for companies, which can better retain good employees,” Natali concludes.
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