Away to the realization of 54 innovative training campus in all Italian regions, created by the technical and professional institutes in partnership with universities, research centers, companies and employers’ associations. This was stated by the note of the Ministry of Education and merit, which explains how the initiative is “a fundamental piece for the strengthening of the technological-professional supply chain (4+2) and for the construction of vertical didactic and training experiences”.
Funds for Campus
Following the public notice of 3 June 2025, the rankings that assign each institute and to the relative partnership 750 thousand euros for the creation of integrated and dynamic spaces, open to learning and training on the field, equipped with innovative didactic methodologies and advanced artificial intelligence systems were published today. The investment is equal to 40.5 million euros, already defined with the previous ministerial decree and financed by the PNRR. The 54 selected projects were chosen from 436 applications received, confirming the great interest of the school system towards the innovations promoted by the technological-professional supply chain.
In the note, the Minister of Education and Merit Giuseppe Valditara explains:
With the training campus we build a path that unites school, research and business. We offer students modern and dynamic environments, with advanced technologies and innovative educational methodologies, to guarantee them real opportunities for personal and professional growth and for training closer to the needs of our children and the country.
The sectors concerned
The new campus will cover the main strategic supply chains of the national economy:
- fashion;
- agri -food and food and wine;
- Promotion, conservation and enhancement of cultural and artistic heritage;
- tourism;
- Mechatronics;
- Nautical and aeronautics;
- Data analysis and cybersecurity;
- Generative artificial intelligence and automation of industrial processes;
- constructions;
- biotechnology;
- health and well -being.
What the Valditara reform consists of
From this summer, Minister Valditara has started a series of significant reforms aimed at enhancing the technological-professional chain in Italy; Initiatives that focus mainly on the creation of training campus and the strengthening of school laboratories.
As for the former, these will be developed according to the “4+2” model: the student, after the middle school, thus enrolled in a four-year period of technical-professional school consistent with the paths of the ITS Academy among which he intends to specialize. To support the start of the project, the Minister issued a public notice aimed at the Regions, allocating 15 million euros-from a specific MIM fund-to the planning of technical-economic feasibility, as part of a total equipment of 35 million euros for the construction of the campus.
Not only that; In addition to the campus, another pillar of the Valditara reform the strengthening of the workshops within the technical and professional institutes, considered fundamental for practical and concrete learning. To this end, a first package of interventions of 124 million euros was allocated to strengthen the schools of the schools already included in the supply chain, with an average of about 258 thousand euros per institution.
In addition, there is a further decree which provides for 210 million euros, as part of the 2021-2027 national program, for the creation of new professional workshops in all technical and professional institutes. The goal is to offer students concrete opportunities to put the knowledge acquired into practice, contributing to the construction of a “school of the future” capable of enhancing the talents and responding to the needs of the world of work.
