Streamlined procedures to push training abroad

Excluded from quotas and click days by the Cutro Decree-Law in 2023 (Decree-Law No. 20), the entry of trained workers in the countries of origin is growing but the numbers are still small. To date, the projects approved by the Ministry of Labour number 55 and involve 6,691 citizens from 22 non-European countries, in particular Tunisia, Ghana, Egypt, Albania, Bangladesh and Peru. 121 classes have been activated, there are 2132 enrolled (mainly men) and 1,174 have completed the training course.

The strengthening of this channel is one of the objectives set by the Cutro Decree and also indicated by the Undersecretary to the Presidency of the Council, Alfredo Mantovano.

To strengthen it, however, entry procedures must be speeded up. There are no quotas or click days but the process is identical to that of the applications submitted through the flows decrees and provides for the issue of the nihil obstat and entry visas. Before the Schengen Committee, Mantovano said that the government is working on procedural measures precisely to make this channel more efficient.

Worker training is both vocational and civic-linguistic. The courses offered focus on the mechanical engineering, plant engineering, construction and tourism sectors. However, there are also projects in transport, logistics, textiles and clothing.

"It is a regulated immigration route based on approved projects. The risk of fraud is much lower than that of the flow decrees,' says Federico Biazzo, training manager and member of the Board of Directors of Orienta Spa, an Orienta employment agency that is carrying out training projects in Mexico, the Philippines and Egypt for a total of 1680 people. About 450 have completed the training and more than 200 have already arrived in Italy.