The strengthening of the Calabrian university training system and the consolidation of the relationship between universities and the productive world, in order to reduce the mismatch between job supply and demand in Calabria, represent the assumptions on which Aldo Ferrara, president of Confindustria Catanzaro and Unindustria Calabria, favorably evaluates the position expressed by the Rector of the Magna Graecia University of Catanzaro, Giovanni Cuda, regarding the evolution of the training offer in the field of computer engineering and skills digital.
Collaboration and complementarity
Confindustria expresses appreciation for the clear desire shown by the University to think in a system logic, based on loyal collaboration and complementarity between the Calabrian universities, overcoming any competitive or territorial approach. An approach that fully coincides with the understanding expressed several times by the Confindustria world, which has always been favorable to the construction of a coordinated, coherent and oriented training offer aimed at the challenges of innovation. For Ferrara, in fact, «there is a shared need throughout the region which is to build training courses capable of helping our young people to structure skills in sectors with greater added value and higher innovative capacity, while at the same time accompanying companies in the path of growth and evolution linked to the transformations of the IT world».
The digital opportunity
«From this perspective – continues Ferrara –, also in light of the investments that companies are supporting, a reasoned expansion of the university training offer in the digital field can represent an opportunity for evolution for the entire regional training sector, expanding the opportunities for Calabrian students and strengthening the availability of skills for the production system».
In fact, Confindustria believes it is essential that the process of reflection initiated by the Magna Graecia University can translate into a constructive comparison between the Calabrian universities, oriented towards quality, sustainability and the valorisation of the territory’s human resources, creating the conditions so that companies can also increase their internal skills, generating economic value and social development.
Sharing
«We are convinced – concludes Ferrara – that only through the sharing of knowledge, knowledge and responsibilities is it possible to build a training offer truly focused on the challenges of the future, capable of generating concrete benefits for students, for businesses and for the entire Calabria system. We are pleased that this line is publicly supported by the university system which, by prerogative, has the task of defining the most appropriate implementation methods to ensure that this intention is translated into reality. The Confindustria world, for its part, as it has always done, also on this occasion reiterates its widest availability to provide any form of contribution and support that may be deemed necessary and useful”.