Apple's iOS Academy was inaugurated today in Naples. Nine months after the agreement signed between Matteo Renzi and Tim Cook, Italy reaches a European record: the Neapolitan campus is the first school for Cupertino developers in all of Europe, created thanks to the joint commitment between the US company and the Frederick II University.
The event was greeted with an enthusiastic comment by the Prime Minister: «The Apple Academy is starting, as promised with Tim Cook. Naples has a lot of future ahead. If the South starts again, Italy starts again ».
Strongly desired by the Government and local institutions, the Academy will take care of the training of 600 students, teaching them to become app and software developers on the Apple operating system.
More than 4 young people took part in the selections, the chosen ones will start a new journey today. According to initial information, the students would come from as many as 11 Italian regions, but there are also young people from Holland, Germany and Madagascar.
"From here we can get the economy back on track," underlined the mayor of Naples De Magistris. «And those who have chosen to stay in Naples can finally not only study but also decide to stay and not leave the city, because they invent a job for themselves».
"The launch of the iOS Academy - according to the Minister of Education, Stefania Giannini - is a fundamental moment of a government project that will lead to the enhancement of research and human capital as a priority sector of investment in Campania".
