
To overcome this mentality and offer training opportunities to young students able to meet the needs of organizations seeking specific professional, Regione Lombardia, and Confindustria Lombardia Regional Education Office presented 'Teknica!', The draft guidance to action ' technical education that data in hand, is the tool to attract young people and their families to the extraordinary potential that a training scientific and technical guarantees in terms of job opportunities.
The contents were presented by the Regional Education, Training and Employment Gianni Rossoni (photo), the president of Confindustria Lombardia Alberto Barcella, Morena Modenini by the Regional School Office of Lombardy and Paul Liguori of the Consortium 'Campus Multimedia In.Formazione '.
"We must invest sull'abbattimento stereotypes of families - said Councillor Rossoni - under which technical-vocational institutions are considered unimportant. Regione Lombardia committed to giving children an adequate preparation to align supply and demand 'Teknica' is a winner, on which we want to continue betting.
"Our resources - the councilor added - despite the crisis, are intended systematically to young people and researchers, we are convinced that it is human capital, the person, the element of competitiveness to enable our businesses to be up to international challenges. "
The choice of school is an important step for growth and achievement of young people.
The data say that youth unemployment is particularly high today but at the same time, companies do not find the necessary technical expertise to the development of their activities. Only in Lombardy 27,500 missing engineers.
To speak to children, the project 'Teknica' has chosen to use their channels of communication: there is already a "profile" on Facebook, which has over a thousand fans and provides information about the contents and modalities of the initiative would be activated on a YouTube channel and blog dedicated to technical education 'Small Factory: factory of talents'; continue updating the site' Teknica ', which received over 33,000 visits since February 2010, we created a game,' Teknocity ', prepared with contributions from the Politecnico di Milano, that allows participants to join in eleven districts, which correspond to the eleven addresses of technical education, open to all residents enrolled in schools in Lombardy.
About three complete games in each district may send by mail a postcard with the data of the participant every week will be drawn 10 cards, each of which are gifts consisting of € 5 vouchers that can be used to download music, movies, web applications .
The final draw of all the postcards received will award the winner with a 16 GB mp3 player, and extracted for another 20 postcards, free tours at the Museum of Science and Technology in Milan with a companion. The contest closes on January 31, 2011.
In addition to these activities will be organized for the 2010/2011 school year events also in the area, in all twelve provinces of Lombardy (plus the wooden seat / I), prepared by the Industrial Association of Lombardy are planned among others, interactive workshops in materials science and robotics and workshops on the chemistry in Bergamo, professional orientation meetings and visits in the company in Brescia, the student lounge in Cremona, internships for teachers and open factories in Lecco, initiatives awareness for middle school girls ('Project Rose') in Varese. In Milan and Lodi
scheduled orientation meetings with 'Science and technology will bring ... at stake 'and' A Trip around the magical world of chemistry '.
In collaboration with the Master of Journalism Lab - Iulm, recognized by the National Order of Journalists, will also be prepared publications 'Teknica News', local editions and a small editorial staff available to associations to animate the media in the territory with production video material and texts. In collaboration with 'City of the trades' will finally be realized on a publication of technical professions.
(Lombardy Ln News - Milano))