Training that puts you on the path to success
Do you have a dream, an idea, or a project? Would you like to change your life but don't know where to start? Do you need a new job that is more rewarding and engaging? Are you struggling to balance work time with family commitments?
Job Digital Lab is a project by Fondazione Mondo Digitale and ING Italia aimed at strengthening digital skills and discovering new employment areas and emerging professional profiles. This project is part of ING Group's investment in communities. The goal is to empower three million people by 2025 for a more inclusive and resilient society by implementing activities that remove barriers to social and economic participation.
The fourth edition (2023-2024) trained more than 9,000 people through 33 training sessions, 18 micro-learning products, 9 territorial events in collaboration with Chambers of Commerce, and involved 15 ING role models in corporate expertise volunteer activities.
The context
The numbers from the Digital Decade Report 2023 are clear: only 46 percent of the Italian population possesses basic digital skills. This alarming figure risks undermining the Italian population's ability to fully take advantage of the opportunities offered by digital technology and to exercise digital citizenship, with negative impacts on our country's inclusiveness. Although the importance of developing new skills and updating job profiles is recognized as a priority, the number of companies that actually offer training to their employees is still insufficient.
Job Digital Lab aims to foster the digitization process as a tool for cross-disciplinary empowerment and inclusion, focusing on three specific objectives:
- Encouraging digital literacy and participation in education;
- Helping to bridge the mismatch between the supply and demand for skills by businesses;
- Countering the gender gap.
Your stories
Patricia Carfora 48 anni imprenditrice Catania
During the pandemic, in the long months of lockdown, Patricia is forced to close her Pilates center in Catania, Italy. She enrolled in the "Job Digital Lab" program to try, like so many others, to relocate her business online. "I wanted to enhance my digital skills to put myself back on the web, but then, just as I was attending the courses, I had an epiphany and identified a new business idea." The idea is related to her husband's business that produces oil and wine. Patrizia wants to produce cosmetics from waste, create a new line to be distributed in hotels to enhance the identity of the area. "Often to remain confined to the comfort zone ... instead I realized that it is right to always update! With the StartUp Lab I learned a lot, from how to make a business canvas to a crowdfunding campaign."
Fabio Armano 49 anni Progettista Milano
With Covid, I lost my job. I am a creative and an experienced designer. I have a degree in industrial design and have been working in the design world for over 25 years. I joined to increase my web visibility and digital skills. I learned how to introduce myself to companies, improve my profile on the web and increase my visibility to "sell" myself better. Now I hope to find a cutting-edge company. I am a team man who brings harmony to the group.
Daniela Sarnacchiaro 30 anni In cerca di occupazione Roma
I have been living in Italy for 7 years. A graduate of San Diego in film and media, I teach English at the University of the Third Age. I am now pursuing a master's degree in psychology at Columbia University in New York. I found the module on "effective cv" very useful, so I built my first digital resume in Italian (they are different in English!) I don't have much previous work experience, I needed tools and tips to introduce myself to the job market here in Italy. I have a pilates center that I closed during the lockdown. How to get back on the web? With the courses comes enlightenment: a business idea related to my husband's company that produces oil and wine. I want to create a new line of cosmetics from waste. A line to be distributed in hotels (there is a lot of waste), to enhance territory and raw materials.
