Its Academy springboard to work: 84% of young people find a job in a company

For companies, they represent the cutting-edge training channel to train the talent they need. For young people, the Its Academy represents a valid alternative to university, with the possibility of entering the world of work earlier and with solid technical and practical skills. For the country, it is the long-awaited 'second leg' of tertiary education, the vocational one, whose take-off is fundamental to attack school drop-outs and Neet. The fact is that the Higher Technological Institutes, as they are called after the 2022 reform law, continue to churn out record numbers.

The 2025 monitoring that Indire and the Ministry of Education and Merit are presenting today in Rome speaks clearly. One year after graduation, 84% of students are employed, with a 93% consistency between study path and type of employment. Of the remaining 16% of non-employed, 4% have gone on to university, 1.8% are doing an extracurricular internship, and 2.5% are unemployed. This is a significant result (the employment rate in the Its Academy has been above 80% for 10 years now) and higher than the employment rate of three-year graduates one year after graduation, which is lower at 78%.

Not only that. Thanks to avant-garde laboratories, the commitment of companies and the massive use of new technologies, the Its Academies have now become true high-tech training 'gyms', since they foster the development of digital skills through 4.0 enabling technologies in a percentage of 69% of the courses (we are talking about big data and analytics, Industrial Internet, augmented reality to support production processes, simulation, artificial intelligence). This is especially the case in the mechanical engineering and ICT sectors.

"The Its Academies are central to countering the mismatch and offering innovative training for young people," stressed the Minister for Education and Merit, Giuseppe Valditara. "With the last Pnrr decree, we have allocated 1 million euro to expand the Its Academy's training offerings connected to the internationalisation processes linked to the Mattei Plan. "Innovative educational activities are practised in the Its Academies," added Francesco Manfredi, president of Indire, "because they have adequate structures and organisation. These institutes today propose an organisational and teaching model based on three key words: flexibility, agility and autonomy'.

Today, there are 147 Foundations running Its Academies and around 40,000 students attending. The courses are normally two years long, rising to three years for certain training requirements. Law 99 of 2022, which has been fully implemented, has given impetus to these institutes, and with the NRP came 'one-off' funding of EUR 1.5 billion to upgrade laboratories and increase the number of students.