Arzignano ‘green leather manager’ course attracts record numbers
30/10/2019
The Venetian leather cluster’s main representative body, il Distretto della Pelle, has worked with research and academic organisations to put the course on with a view to creating a new generation of ‘green’ managers for the industry.
Academic partners include the University of Padua, Arzignano’s ITS Galileo Galilei, a specialist technical education institution, specialist national leather research body Stazione Sperimentale delle Pelli e delle Materie Concianti (SSIP), and fashion industry training body Fondazione ITS Cosmo.
Twenty-two students have signed up for the 2019-2020 programme; they will learn about sustainable processes and innovative ideas that they will later be able to put into practice in the high-level jobs the organisers are confident the students will secure, or in some cases already have secured, in local tanneries, leather chemical companies or tanning machinery developers.
At the launch of the new course, president of the Distretto della Pelle, Riccardo Boschetti, told the group: “The aim of this course is an ambitious one. It seeks to fill the gap that exists between what schools teach and what companies require today. Combining work and study is challenging, but it’s worthwhile because it will enable you fit into our companies.”
For her part, the mayor of Arzignano, Alessia Bevilacqua, told the course participants that they were destined to become the future professionals of a tanning cluster “known for excellence at a national and international level”. She added: “It’s you who will support our entrepreneurs as they face up to important challenges, especially that of sustainability.”
Distretto vice-president, Giorgio Pozza, who is responsible for the scientific content of the course, commented: “This record number of students shows that we are moving in the right direction, putting these students, around whom we are going to build a good way of doing things, at the centre of the course.”
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