ROME (ITALPRESS) – The Fondimpresa – Inapp Report “The challenge of in-company training in the era of twin transitions” has been presented. The report, which stems from a survey sponsored by Inapp and Fondimpresa, analyzes the results of continuing training interventions in Italy of more than 100 company cases and on the survey surveying the opinions of workers and companies that involved more than 10,000 workers in companies employing about 400,000 employees. The analysis pays particular attention to the effectiveness of continuing education in enhancing workers’ skills to make digital and environmental transitions in production and work organizations sustainable.The results obtained during 2022, illustrated by Valentina Ferri (Inapp researcher), Maurizio Bernava and Nausica Iencenelli (Fondimpresa), highlight that 40.1 percent work in companies that have invested in green transition and have been involved in projects on Industry 4.0 enabling technologies. “Green” courses were more about improving products and processes on the side of environmental sustainability (13.8 percent) and introducing new products and processes in labor organizations (6.8 percent). These training projects were particularly concentrated in areas of northern Italy. The increase in programs was significant in the post Covid pandemic period, the latter contributing to a significant improvement in productivity and business competitiveness and to the strengthening of workers’ skills.The survey results were commented on by Fondimpresa President Aurelio Regina, Massimo Temussi, Director General of Active Employment Policies, and Simonetta Ponzi, Fondimpresa Board Member.Aurelio Regina, said, “the institutional collaboration between Inapp and Fondimpresa is now in its fifth year, we have shown that by combining our experiences and peculiarities we can create something unique such as the report on the evaluative monitoring of training activities carried out by companies, in this edition plans are analyzed that have covered the two transitions, the digital and technological and the green, energy and environmental. I find that this kind of qualitative activity on the activities carried out, although of course on a sample basis, given our numbers, is very European, and transparently ties both our activity and the results achieved to increasingly high standards.The technological and digital transition and the green transition are no longer an optional extra, but an unavoidable necessity for companies and workers who intend to remain steadfast and prosperous in the contemporary economic landscape.”In his concluding remarks, Inapp President Natale Forlani emphasized “the successful design of interventions that combine the introduction of new technologies in work organizations with targeted programs of continuing education for workers that encourage the full development of the potential of investment and productivity. These are examples that need to be implemented with the support of interprofessional funds. The same promoted by the social partners even in sectors with a widespread presence of small businesses, and assumed in active labor policy programs for the job placement of young people leaving school and university. The refinancing of the New Skills Fund can become an opportunity to spread these good practices and increase the number of enterprises and workers involved.”-photo xb1 Italpress-(ITALPRESS).
