Employability: Percorsi reali in alta formazione. Professioni educative e mondo del lavoro
The first 2025 Remploy dissemination event “Employability: Percorsi reali in alta formazione. Professioni educative e mondo del lavoro" (translated: "Employability: real paths in higher education. Educational professions and the world of work"), organised by the University of Florence, took place Thursday 27th March 2025, in the Google Meet online platform, from 11:30 a.m. to 13:30 p.m.
After the institutional welcome given by the Universities Units coordinators, Professors Vanna Boffo, Laura Formenti and Maura Striano, the pedagogical framework on the real paths that higher education realities can offer started its reflection.
Professor Fabio Togni, from the University of Florence, presented the theoretical concepts and categories that see the employability construct as a driver of innovation and resilience. His focus concentred the idea of "a project" as a spectrum to look beyond, where intentionality gives the orientation to be concretely able to infinitive opportunities. Furthermore, the professor pointed out the fact that people with high transversal skills are more likely to come up with innovative ideas and adapt to change, contributing to the resilience of organisations and communities. Hereby, in the field of high education, promoting employability means focusing on training people who are able to face future challenges with autonomy and actively, key elements to support innovation and resilience in the face of the unexpected. (Click beside for the pptx) TOGNI_REMPLOY_27 marzo 2025_pptx
Within this frame, Professor Glenda Galeotti, from the Univesrsity of Florence, presented the first results of the PRIN Remploy project with a glimpse on university courses for pedagogist training and its occupational trends. The professor mapped the process followed so far, in order to identify the characteristics of the training offer, through the analysis of the documents of the Course of Studies investigated. This research phase is part of the triangulation process of the data that have been collected later with the involvement of students, professionals and referents from the world of work. In this regard, it was underlined the strong importance of the connection between universities and the world of work, which can clarify the need of the training experience within the future professional field. However, it emerged that the intended learning outcomes enable to identify the internal coherence of the educational offer in support of the employability process. The analysis of documents of the involved italian universities courses allowed a better understanding of how the pedagogist professional profile is transversally defined within the italian universities territory. (Click beside for the pptx) GGaleotti Remploy 27 Marzo 2025_
Conclusively, the intervention of Professor Giovanna Del Gobbo, president of the Master's Degree in Pedagogical Sciences and Management of Education for Sustainable Development, University of Florence. The professor presented the relevance of continuing training to promote the trasnformation in a society where the change is steady unpredictable. In this setting, she stressed the challenge that higher education insitutions live in finding new strategies, which are essential in promoting students' abilities to be able to constantly define their personal, educational and professional trajectories and to be integrated in the labour market. Moreover, the quality which align the needs of all stakeholders is being able not only to be in touch with the world of work, but also to keep on researching in this field, by involving all the universities courses presidents in the dimension of employability and work together towards the common purpose of well-being for all.
In which direction should univerisity policies focus the most? Is this enough to clarify the role of higher education as a both theoretical and practical skills provider?
More discussions in this matter will take place during the next PRIN Remploy webinar, on Friday 11th of April 2025 (online, h 10:30 am - 12:30 pm).
The event is part of the PRIN Research Project (2022LTZXNA), REMPLOY, Reconsidering Graduate Employability: Educational Pathways for Transitions to Work (2023-2025). The Project, conducted by the Universities of Florence, Milano Bicocca, and Naples “Federico II,” is concerned with studying the conditions of Employability of Master's Degree Courses in the pedagogical area with the aim of contributing to the definition of Educational and Training Professionalism in the contexts of Pedagogical Coordination, Business Management, and Institutional Leadership.
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09.04.2025