Regional Competence Italian partners activities

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Regional CompetenceItalian partners activities

• Consortium meeting
• Bruxelles 22nd January 2003
• Roberto Berti (CNA Firenze Mugello Alto
  Mugello)
• Franco Bortolotti (IRES Toscana)
• Stefania Ranieri (Camera Commercio Firenze
  Promofirenze)
• Paolo Martinez (Camera Commercio Firenze
  Firenze Tecnologia)

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Some background information to understand the
competence mapping approach and dissemination
needs in Italy

• The characteristics of the Italian SME
• The small number of employees ( 2,8- 3,5)
• The great professional competence
• The focus on technological and productive
  innovation (rather than on the strategic issues)
• The direct knowledge of the competence of each
  worker on behalf of the entrepreneur

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Some dimensions of the competitive context

• Flexibility in design, production and commercial
  aspects
• Flexibility of competence
• Internal
• Continuous learning (permanent training) active
  culture, Knowledge, organisational ability.
  Cration of technical and productive skills and
  development of human capital.
• External
• Searching and being permeable to new external
  competence needed, in a permanent or temporary way

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SMEs competitive context

• Size ( small is beautiful but poses problems)
• Cultural needs (the origins of SME in Italy
  Prodi )
• Raising the technical and scientific level of
  knowledge
• Ability to adopt (new things) and to adapt to it
• Greater dependence from external factors and from
  the efficiency of the socio economic and
  political context (for product innovation,
  management and access to the market)
• Great need to work in an integrated way on the
  territory to
• Create and train new competence internally
• Introduce new competence

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The trajectory of mapping

• Shared language with the external environment
• Same competence classification categories as the
  Provincial Public Administration Job Centre,
  Netlabor
• Elements of dialogue with external actors to
  build a network on
• Search of personnel and competence
• Training demand
• Individual Competence Database made compatible
  with the mapping of other competence on the
  territory. ( schools, Local Authorities,
  professional studies, training agencies, )

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Contamination among external actors and
environment

• The nature, behaviour and development of small
  and medium enterprises is strongly influenced by
  its external (social, cultural, economic and
  physical) environment.
• Use of tools that facilitate a dialogue and
  interaction among the socio economic and cultural
  actors on competence are an important
  contribution to local development and innovation
  strategies. (if the external environment is
  efficient the actors and organisations will
  import efficiency, if the external environment is
  inefficient, they will import inefficiency)

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The role of the Province of Florence

• An important collaboration
• Availability to connect the RegComp projetc to
  the Job centre
• Action of the territory on competence as a means
  to local development and innovation (the mappers)
• An integrated strategy to increase the quality
  and impact of training programmes (funds
  administered through the Province)

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Competitiveness and Cooperation
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The push with strategic innovation
Trend only with Technological innovation
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RC Italian Partners
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Italian partners constituencies

• Province of Florence. 950.000 inhabitants
• Chamber of Commerce (PF-FT) represent the
  interest of 60.000 companies
• CNA represents 12.000 Small craftsmen sme
• IRES Toscana Trade union Research (CGIL 300.000
  members) and 30 local orgs

Training, competence, policy
Facilitation -Innovation ICT-Methods
Testbed-frontline-competence
Research labour market trends
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ProvinceIntegrated projects map
Regional Competence Mapping competence in Mugello
Company training Continuous training methods
Le Boterf Seminars papers on Competence
analysis
Provincial observatory on work/labour And
competence
Disabled supply and demand analysis
Taskform Equal project on employed Risking
obsolence
Net Met Services for multi problem users
Compulsory Training Certification of competence
Women counselling Job insertion Services (1000)
Italia Lavoro Banca Dati Competenze
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C.I.
(INTEGRATED) APPROACH OF RC ITALY
Education bodies
SME
RCDB
ICDB
RCDB
RCDB
ICDB
RCDB
ICDB
RCDB
RCDB
Net Labor
Local authorities
2 Level
Employment Centre
Legenda ICDB Individual Competence (workers)
mapping RCDB Regional Competence
(organisation/sme) mapping
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Italian actions
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2002
2003
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Legenda ICDB Individual Competence (workers)
database RCDB Regional Competence
(organisation/sme) database
We are here
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ICDBIndividualCompetenceDataBaseNetlabor
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SME dissemination of the Individual Competence
Data Base ICDB(1st level)

• Difficulty
• Direct knowledge of employees in SMEs
• Low practical use
• Value (strategic)
• Introduction of a new culture of competence
• Utility of the job search function
• Focused training

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Sinergy

• There is more interest if the system is adopted
  by the territory (Local Authorities, Schools,
  etc.)
• It is more effective if support and programming
  synergies are created on this issue.

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The seminars programme

• Evolution of the organisation of labour
• Continuous training for the development of
  competencies
• Evolution of competencies in work
• Competence evolution as a need in the new
  relations between workers and trade unions.
  (initiatives in Mugello and Florence)

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The Province of Florence

• Availability of the Province to have a
  contamination process between RC and other
  projects on competence
• Training of trainers on competence mapping
• Opportunity to adopt RC in the Local Authorities
  and Schools
• CEMR has a pulling and pushing role towards Local
  Authorities. ( planning an initiative in Florence
  or in Mugello)

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The Camera di Commercio(Promofirenze e Firenze
Tecnologia)

• Administrative and scientific coordination
  activities for the italian group
• Liaison activities between the partners for the
  competence working group.
• Adaptation and localisation of the software
• Support to interinstitutional relations and
  interface between SMEs, their associations and
  the local institutions.
• Dissemination Activities, workshops
• Methodological extraction

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CNA Mugello

• Direct interface with the companies.
• Interviews and mapping in Mugello
• Participation to the diffusion of the project at
  a more extended level.
• Activate and participate to initiatives for the
  adoption of RC both by the enterprises and the
  territory

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IRES Toscana

• Methodological research
• Study and analysis of the labour and development
  policies
• Participation to the working group meetings
  (Competence, Semantics and Method)

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2nd Level Competence MappingUse of the RCDB tool

• More interesting for the enterprise
• Past experience difficulty with portals and ICT
  communities (UTC, Bridge projects)
• Express the competence of the enterprise at the
  best through the RC web database
• Adopt approaches and methods applied by the
  Province staff, simplify, create working manuals

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The European Council of Municipalities and
Regions (and italian activities)

• Possible supports at the Italian level.
• The pulling role for RC in the Public
  Administration an educational bodies
• The importance of giving visibility and
  sponsoring the project at the local level (a
  presentation letter)
• Raising the competence of local public
  administration to strengthen the ability of the
  local actors and create an environment favourable
  to innovation (seminars and workshops on the
  issue of competence).