The mismatch affecting job offer and demand in Italy is not a secret. This situation leads to a high rate of young people’s unemployment, who mostly decide to go abroad to find a good job. Within this scenario, something is definitely changing and Lombardy (one of the most developed Northern region of the country) is giving a great example of how to foster employment for the young population.

Valentina Aprea – Assessor for Education, Training and Job for the region – explained how happy she was to be able to launch a solid cooperation between companies and education providers based on innovation, digitalization and internationalisation of training methods, following the best European models. Mrs Aprea also shed light on one of the main measures introduced: the dual apprenticeship. The latter entails that at least 5% of young pupils attending the 3rd year of professional institutes would spend their last year of school in a company, provided with a real job contract.