The success of the training programs promoted by the economists of the University of Ferrara for senior Chinese government officials and managers is confirmed: it opened this morning the 2011 Guangdong edition of the “China and Italy School of Policy”.
The working day opens a busy program of lessons and meetings which will last a month and which will be held in various Italian cities. At this edition you are 27 participants who have just arrived directly from Canton have registered, the capital of the very rich and populous southern province of Guangdong.
The first experience of its kind in Italy, the "China and Italy School of Policy" is an innovative initiative in terms of format and content which intends contribute to the dialogue between Italy and China by offering opportunities for discussion between the territories, businesses and institutions of the two countries.
Born in 2006, it is directed by Professor Marco R. Di Tommaso of the Faculty of Economics of the University of Ferrara, and is promoted by the University of Ferrara in collaboration with the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and by c.MET05 (Interuniversity Center of Applied Economics of the Universities of Ferrara, Florence, Naples l'Orientale and Polytechnic of the Marches); to date, 7 training programs have been promoted which have seen the involvement of: over 200 Chinese participants; 110 between speakers and teachers; 70 between companies and public and private institutions; 12 universities.
The program of this 2011 edition dedicated to Guangdong includes classroom lessons, seminars, round tables, workshops, meetings with representatives of local governments and businesses. Among the speakers of this edition economists and university professors, managers of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, of CENSIS, councilors and managers of the Emilia Romagna, Tuscany and Campania Regions and other local bodies; managers and entrepreneurs of numerous companies including: UniCredit Group, VM Motori spa, Ducati Spa, Marposs spa, Basell.
As the Prof. Di Tommaso – Professor at the University of Ferrara, honorary professor at the South China University of Technology and Director of the “China and Italy School of Policy” – this is a particularly innovative and unique initiative in the panorama of relations between China and Italy: “We offer programs which integrate our academic reflections of teachers who study and regularly visit China with the contribution of Italian entrepreneurs and public administrators".
“We teach – continues Di Tommaso – to Chinese public executives and managers who appear younger and younger year after year and at the same time more influential, motivated and competent. On this model we are evaluating the many proposals we have received from different areas of China but also from other foreign realities: we have already successfully built a first School in Vietnam, we are thinking of Indonesia, one of the most interesting and least known emerging countries, and we are studying other interesting possibilities which envisage the involvement of European and American universities. We promote specialized academic research and training, but we also believe in a university capable of opening new paths and that wants to offer a more general contribution to the development of Italy's economic, political and cultural relations with the rest of the world."
