Piera Molinelli – Vice-Chancellor for Career Counselling University of Bergamo

1. UNIVERSITÀ DEGLI STUDI DI BERGAMO DoQuP Training Seminar Alicante, April 24th 2013 Educational needs and professional profiles: first dialogues and beyond Piera Molinelli – Vice-Chancellor for Career Counselling University of Bergamo

2. Needs of the Labour Market • Fourkeysfor understanding the structure of Labour Market in Italy: • Dimension, localisation, degree of innovation and internationalisation of enterprises • Analysis of presentneeds of workers(e.g. Excelsioranalysis, by Chamber of Commerce) • Labour market legislation(special contracts for young or graduatedpeople) • Forecastinganalysis of the development of the needs of the Labour Market (Europe 2020)

3. A first attempt • Universityreforms: • 1999: Ministerialdecree 509 • More attentionto coursesand to teachingtasks • - Duty of consultthe stakeholdersof the labourmarkets • 2004: Ministerialdecree 270 • More attentionto learningoutcomes • Educational needs are to be related to job profiles • An example: a Master’sDegree (509) (270)

4. The needs of today – the needs of tomorrow • Twoavailablepointsof view: • Focus on recruitment (Companies p.o.v.) • Or • Focus on occupability (Graduatesp.o.v.)

5. Focus on recruitment • The aim of answering to the present needs of enterprises is focused on recruiting activities. • This must be: • fast (to reduce to minimum the matching time) • structured (to list the precise learning outcomes matching with job profiles/knowledge and skills) • customized on the company • Problems: • are companies able to predict structured competences on a long term? • is the time of learning aspecific role coherent with the need of companies?

6. Focus on placement • The aim of answering to the future needs of enterprises is focused on placement activities. • This must be: • deep (focused on abilities, more than on knowledge and skills) • free (explorations of motivation/entrepreneurial attitude) • customized on the person basis

7. A win-win way: placement service • Placementas a translatorbetweentwocustomerswhichspeakdifferentlanguages: • The keywords are: • job profile(an example) • building competencesduringinternship(bothcurricularand post-degree) Placement Faculties Companies

8. A win-win way: UniBG • The University of Bergamo developed a continuous dialogue with thelabourmarket, including companies and organization, with three main aims: • to promote high quality internships • to design specific project works on weak candidates • to spread “apprendistato” (training contract)

9. A win-win way: project work • Project work for specific target • Fixo II Planning and management of tourismsystems: 11 projectscustomized on 11 different companies needs • 9 out of 11 got a contractafter the PWs

10. A win-win way: “apprendistato” contract •  Itisa training contract: • The last year of the master degreeisdesignedwith the cooperation of the universityand thecompanies involved •  Customization on • the contents of the courses • the way of learning (laboratories, projects, fad) • By April 2013, 14 apprendistato contractssigned for PhDstudents and 1 for a master degreestudent (Management Engineering)

11. Thanks