The document discusses the FITT! project in Italy, which aims to improve the quality and attractiveness of apprenticeships. The project analyzed apprenticeships in the Veneto region and designed a new "dual" model based on the German system. This model includes framework training plans, standards for trainers, and communication tools. The model was tested and tools like framework plans are now being implemented nationally. Project results are also being shared with other Italian and European stakeholders to mainstream the new approach to apprenticeships.

1. FITT! Forma il tuo
futuro
KA 3 – Policy reform
National Authorities for Apprenticeship
Increasing the quality of apprenticeship for vocational qualifications in Italy
Final
conference
Committee of
the Regions,
Brussels
16/03/2017
Tiziano Barone
Director Veneto Lavoro

2. Partnership
 Regione delVeneto (mandated by the
Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs)
 Veneto Lavoro
 Bundesinstitut für Berufsbildung - BIBB
 Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale
Zusammenarbeit - GIZ
 Ministry of Labour and social Affairs
(associated )
 Ministry of Education MIUR (associated)

3. Context and
objective
Project embedded in the reform
81/2015 - focus on apprenticeship for
the qualification, diploma and
specialization (Art. 46 Legislative
Decree 81/2015), and the dual
training system in Italy
Objective:To improve the
attractiveness and quality of
apprenticeships as a way to get the
qualification / degree for youths and
quickly insert them into the labor
market

4. Approach
Territorial: mandate of the Ministry of Labour to
theVeneto Region to develop and test
improvements
Sectoral: focus on development of innovation
elements in the food and hospitality sector
Transnational: value the experience of
European countries with a high degree of
success in the work-based learning approach
(Germany)
Integrated: in synergy and not overlapping with
other national and regional initiatives (FIXO and
dual system inVeneto)

5. Data on
apprenticeshipin
Veneto:
apprenticeship’s
great decline
Veneto. Hirings with apprenticeship contract. Total and by gender
Total Male female % female Italian Non Italian % non italian
2008 57.807 32.111 25.696 44% 46.347 11.460 20%
2009 37.766 19.921 17.845 47% 30.362 7.404 20%
2010 41.600 22.946 18.654 45% 33.322 8.278 20%
2011 41.818 23.273 18.545 44% 33.670 8.148 19%
2012 34.457 18.134 16.323 47% 28.054 6.403 19%
2013 28.110 14.974 13.136 47% 22.987 5.123 18%
2014 30.433 16.572 13.861 46% 25.391 5.042 17%
2015 27.361 15.163 12.198 45% 22.998 4.363 16%
Source: elab. Veneto Lavoro su dati Silv

6. ANALYSIS
1 MODELING
2 TESTING
3 MAIN
STREAMING4
The project’s
phases

7. FITT! ‘S
COMPONENTS
BASELINE
ANALYSIS
QUALITATIVE AND QUANTITATIVE AREAS
OF ANALYSIS
A difficult target
Image and perception issues
Relationships betweenVET and labour
market
Creation of professional profiles and
curricula
Regulatory issues
REPORT: DESIGNINGTOGETHERTHE NEW APPRENTICESHIP

8. FITT! ‘S
COMPONENTS
The FITT! model
Based on the results of the analysis, the "dual"
FITT! model contains
strategic and operational choices and
priorities for the "dual" model
integration into 81/15 reform and
identification of the elements of innovation and
added value of cooperation
involvement of all stakeholders: the training
institutions, businesses, social partners and
public institutions
tools and resources, including significant
synergies with the ESF and funds for youth (YG)
evaluation system (qualitative and
quantitative)

9. The model’s
focus :
standards,
co-creation and
communication
importance of standards: FRAMEWORK
TRAINING PLAN for quality dual paths
Standards and skills ofVET trainers -
relationships with companies - co-design
of the training plan
Standards and skills of in-company
Tutor – training companies
Activities to support companies and
organizations by intermediate bodies and
institutions
Targeted awareness raising to increase
the attractiveness and quality of
apprenticeship for the qualification

10. REPORT:
DESIGNINGTOGETHERTHE NEW
APPRENTICESHIPIN ITALY (IT/ING)

11. Testing the FITT! model
 Full involvement of stakeholders, in particular theVET providers, the
competent authorities, companies and their representatives in the
design of the FRAMEWORKTRAINING PLAN
 Development of a common framework for action for all stakeholders:
shared language, standards, assessment tools
 Full involvement of companies,VET providers , and - if relevant -
students in the design, monitoring and evaluation of pathways,
including the development of common assessment tools for learning
outcomes (INDIVIDUALTRAINING PLAN)
 Strengthening the role of guidance and control of public services in
coordination with the intermediate bodies and theVET providers
 Creation of a continuous learning system for the capacity building of the
involved actors, using exchanges and good practice and successful
examples

12. The test phase:
The
importance of
…
THE FRAMEWORK PLAN: the base forWORK-BASED
training in uniform standards. It is not required by
existing regulations, but borrowed from the standards
of the German dual system
THE COMPETENCESOFVET and in-company trainers
and of the work-based learning pedagogy
COMMUNICATION and awareness raising of
companies and intermediary bodies and professionals
MONITORINGAND EVALUATION of the entire process
of co-creation and implementation of the operational
tools

13. What happens now?
In recent months at theVeneto Region a
working group has been established to:
 make the training plan a standard tool to be
developed for all the qualifications as a
communication and sharing tool of the
educational objectives with companies for the
Italian dual system and apprenticeship system
make available the material, goals, and
methods for providing training to in-company
trainers in all sectors and for all qualifications in
accordance with the pedagogical approach of
work based learning.

14. What happens now?
At the national and international level:
mainstreaming activities include sharing
tools, the results and the general approach of
FITT! through dedicated dialogue sessions
with:
 the Ministry of Labour and social affairs.
 the Ministry of Education, University and
Research
 other regional actors (Tecnostruttura) and
sectoral actors, including other training
institutions
 institutional actors of the European
institutions (EAfA, EC, etc)

15. Thank you for
your attention
Contacts:
Area.CapitaleUmanoCultura@regione.veneto.it
Progetti.speciali@venetolavoro.it
WEB:
https://www.venetolavoro.it/fitt-1
https://www.venetolavoro.it/fitt-english