ITS were created to respond to companies’ demand for new and high technical and technological skills. These are tools through which it is possible to train high-level professional figures, equipped with marketable, certifiable and recognizable skills in the national and European qualification system. These are opportunities to young people to enter the regional job market.

The president of the Foundation declares: “The professionalizing tertiary training system constitutes, in this precise historical moment, the answer to, at least, three unresolved processes that concern the work and training systems. From a methodological point of view, the short-cycle training offered by ITS forces us to perfect the interconnection mechanisms between schools, training institutions and companies. On an economic-social level, the ITS are called to respond to a completely secondary emergency. Finally, on a cultural level, the ITS system seems to embody the sense of Educating Community, as an adequate model for implementing a strategy for building custom-oriented skills, in which the active contribution of political decision-makers, local administrations, families, workers jobs, world of entrepreneurs and businesses. According to the Excelsior-Unioncamere report, more than one million two hundred thousand jobs remain unfilled due to a lack of suitable candidates“.