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Social on Business
Business Start-up Provision for
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FORM.ART. (Emilia – Romagna)
Form.Art. is a training agency, a consortium constituted among entrepreneurial Associations called Confartigianato, working in the craft sector. In Emilia Romagna thirty thousand companies are members of these entrepreneurial Associations. All of them are Micro and Small Enterprises. These companies have between one and thirty employees.
Form.Art. operates in the whole Province of Emilia Romagna region. Form.Art.'s organisation is articulated in a regional head office and ten local operating branches. The head office, located in Bologna, is responsible for planning, organising and managing the training activities. The local operating branches are the front line of the training activities: they provide all the information related to the courses, analyze the trainee’s needs and ensure the courses are operational.
The entire Form.Art. staff is 150 people. Teachers or trainers are not included in the Form.Art. staff.
Every Form.Art. local branch is a training centre. Fifty-nine permanent training classrooms are available in the whole system and 31 of them are computer labs.
In 2004 Form.Art. has carried out 1.818 courses attended by 25.360 people.
Form. Art., traditionally, has always taken part in the allocation of resources of the European Social Fund monitored by the Emilia Romagna Region and its Provinces and aimed at:
- women who already have employment or who intend to further develop their working competences in order to avoid the risk of unemployment
- unemployed women in order to avoid the risk of social exclusion
Moreover, through the same type of funds, Form.Art has implemented many projects to support recent enterprises, workers over the age of 45 and workers with low educational qualifications.
Form.Art. also deals with qualification courses for minors (between 15 and 18) who have chosen not to continue their studies, often drop-outs and, therefore, whose risk of social exclusion is high. They attend a training course which lasts 1800 hours and is directly aimed at teaching a profession but also at providing them with the basic competences they haven’t learned at school. Among these pupils there can be young people acknowledged as handicapped for whom Form.Art commit themselves, with the support of provincial administrations (Provinces, Social Services), to make up a personalised project to foster the pupils’ entry in the labour market.
Since 1999 Form.Art. works within the compulsory training for apprentices. In Italy the apprenticeship agreement is a type of contract with which young people enter the labour market: the training helps them enter the market aware of the fact that they are learning a profession.
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