Automobili Lamborghini confirms DESI project, now in its fifth year

First day of school-to-work at Lamborghini for 24 students

Sant’Agata Bolognese, November 4, 2022 – Lamborghini continues to invest in education, especially for the benefit of the younger generation. After the official opening last September, DESI (Italian Dual Education System), now in its fifth year, will move from the desks of the classrooms dedicated to Lamborghini at the Sant’ Agata Bolognese headquarters for six months starting Thursday 3 November.

Automobili Lamborghini confirms DESI project, now in its fifth year

The DESI initiative was launched in 2014, involving Lamborghini and Ducati, the Emilia-Romagna region and the Regional Office for School Education of the Italian Ministry of Education, in cooperation with the Consolidated Trade Union Council (RSU) and the FIM, FIOM and UILM trade unions in Bologna . Also this academic year, two new two-year interdepartmental skills and orientation training courses are planned for fourth graders at Aldini-Valeriani High School in Bologna.

Its aim is to enable 24 students from the two academies in Bologna associated with Lamborghini to acquire high-quality and innovative technical and professional skills based on a combination of theoretical teaching and learning in social situations, and to obtain a five-year vocational training diploma . The project gave Lamborghini the opportunity to train young students as qualified technicians to work in the company and in the entire technical area of the so-called “Automotive Valley”.

“We are very pleased with the success of this training program,” said Umberto Tossini, Chief Human Capital Officer of Automobili Lamborghini. “At such a critical time for the future of our country, the strategic alliance between public and private entities creates real opportunities for personal and professional growth for our young people. The project centers on them, with their aspirations and needs, to prepare them to take advantage of the opportunities for work as well as further education -through the Higher Technical Institutes (ITS) and the university- which we along with the whole territory can offer.”

“As a unitary union representation body and on behalf of the Volkswagen Workforce Foundation, we are equally proud to be key players in this project,” remarked Alberto Cocchi, coordinator of the RSU of Automobili Lamborghini. “The experience we offer these young people takes place in a protected environment, marked by a very high level of specialization guaranteed by the professionalism of our tutors. In a countrywide system in which school-work alternation is often subject to criticism, our common goal is to build a context in which professionalism, rights, and citizenship are nurtured and develop in unison.”

“The DESI project demonstrates how the integrated public-private system that Emilia-Romagna supports with conviction is able to meet -better than others- the educational needs of our young people, particularly in front of the challenges that the ecological and digital transition pose today,” stated Vincenzo Colla, Emilia-Romagna Region councilor in charge of economic development and the green economy, labor and training. “Putting boys and girls to the test and stimulating them in a real work environment while at the same time revealing the aptitudes of each one of them to the company guarantees that mutual knowledge preparatory to shaping quality skills and to generating good and steady employment.”