Job Digital Lab in Genoa

25/11/2022

3 min.

With the Blue Economy sustainable growth is no longer only green

According to the European Commission’s Blue Economy Report 2022, with nearly 4.5 million jobs, a turnover of over 665 billion euro, and 184 billion euro of gross added value, the EU blue economy sectors (including all activities related to water, sea and oceans) contribute significantly to the entire European economy, especially along coastal regions.

The report underlines how “blue sectors” are also labs for new solutions and technologies that can be used to fight climate change for a more efficient green transition.

And when we speak about innovation and technology, we must mention Job Digital Lab, the programme developed by the Fondazione Mondo Digitale and ING Italia that provides free futureproof training.

For the month of #BlueSkills, JDL alights in Genoa in collaboration with the City of Genoa, Job Centre, Genova Blue District, and Start 4.0.

The Job Digital Lab training event, which will be held on November 29 from 15.30 to 18.30, at the Blue District, will focus on new professions related to the sea for sustainable development: from promoting data and machine learning to business dynamics, and from tourism and sustainability to future scenarios.

In Italy, the blue economy plays a significant role. IT is one of Europe’s four blue economies together with Germany, France and Spain. It drives the economy and employment. There are 225,000 enterprises in the sector (3.7% of the national figure) with an added value of ca. 51 billion euro and over 920,000 people are employed (3.7% of the national workforce).

Practical cases and success stories will be presented at the event as a source and model of inspiration in the development of professional objectives:

Iride, Institute for Research and Engineering on Eco-sustainability
Polo Ticass, Innovative Technology for Sustainable Development and the Environment
Camelot, Consultants for Digital Transformation
Aitek, Innovative Technological Solutions

The event organised in collaboration by the City of Genoa, Job Centre, Genova Blue District and Start 4.0 is one of the appointments of the third edition of Job Digital Lab which, between 2020 and 2022, provided training to over 11,000 people in Italy. The educational programme, developed by ING Italia and Fondazione Mondo Digitale, aims to promote the diffusion of digital skills as a tool to intercept the opportunities provided by digital transformation.

The programme of the third edition is even more ambitious. From October 2022 to June 2023, Job Digital Lab will provide courses custom-tailored to local needs with innovative resources and tools for both personal and community-level sustainable growth.

The ten-month project aims to involve another 8000 people in training activities, networking with experts, companies, trade associations, local administrations, public and private organisations, and orientation and employment centres.

For further information: mondodigitale.org/progetti/job-digital-lab

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Statements

"The City of Genoa promotes initiatives that reinforce digital skills at all levels. In recent years, the administration has aimed to digitalise all city services and provide them in a simple and secure fashion to all citizens. According to the European Union’s definition, digital citizenship is a set of values, skills and critical understanding that citizens need to live in the technological era. This is the spirit with which we have collaborated with the Fondazione Mondo Digitale with which we organised the “School of Internet for Everyone” and a series of meetings on how to increase the digital skills of citizens.”

Marta Brusoni, Personnel and Civic Services Councillor, City of Genoa

“The objective of ING is to create a globally more inclusive economy for 3 million people by 2025. And to do this we are working on strengthening and promoting digital skills as Italy places below the European average and these skills are increasingly important to access the job market. Job Digital Lab is ING Italia’s answer to this. It is an educational project, currently in its 3rd edition, that provides tools and knowledge to improve citizens – in line with the promise of our brand “doyourthing” – and develop abilities that help people keep abreast of the rapid transformation underway.”

Silvia Colombo, Head of External Communication & CSR, ING Italia

“For the third year in a row, the Fondazione Mondo Digitale provides its resources to Programme Job Digital Lab. During the first two years of the programme, we trained over 11,000 people. This year we would like to extend our action to reach as many people as possible and provide them with futureproof training through live events with experts, videos for independent learning, custom-tailored local events, role modelling meetings with experts from ING and a Start-up lab, an incubator for enterprises by women. A large team, available all year round, to accompany anyone towards the acquisition of digital, as well as soft and functional, skills, because more education means more freedom and inclusion.”

Mirta Michilli, Director General, Fondazione Mondo Digitale

Job Digital Lab in Genoa