Between 2020 and 2022 the project “Digital excellence", financed by Google.org and built by Unioncamere, allowed to train over 43 people for free between entrepreneurs and their collaborators and to complete a thousand seminars throughout the national territory, organized by the more than 250 "digitisers" of the digital business points, who in turn have been prepared to carry out this role with 60 hours of training.
The objective of the project is precisely this: to help Italian companies to increase the digital skills of its workers. The latest edition of Eccellenze in digitale benefited from funding from one million euros from Google.org and was managed by the Digital Enterprise Points of the Chambers of Commerce.
The initiative, launched in 2014, is part of the activity that Unioncamere and the Chambers of Commerce are carrying out for the digital training of companies and workers, together and in coordination with the activities of the Digital Enterprise Points (Pid), spread throughout the Chambers of Commerce and part of the institutional network of Industry 4.0. To the young, then, the project is dedicated Grow digitally, financed with resources managed by Anpal and the Ministry of Labor and Social Policies within the Pon Iog – Youth Guarantee.
“The numbers of the 2020-2022 edition of Eccellenze in digitale – he comments Joseph Tripoli, secretary general of Unioncamere - confirm the goodness of this initiative, which has the advantage of combining Google's expertise on the digital front, the organizational and training capacity of the chamber system and its widespread presence in the territories. It is a winning combination that has been going on for 8 years now and which will continue with the new programming that we are developing in recent weeks".
Gianna Francescutti, Program Manager of Google.org, added: “Eccellenze in digitale has achieved the joint goal of Google and Unioncamere of accompanying entrepreneurs and workers of small and medium-sized Italian enterprises in their economic recovery and supporting part of the digital transformation that is needed the country".
