Inauguration of Universitas Mercatorum

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Carlo Bottani - Mayor - City of Curtatone
Today is a great day for the entire Mantuan territory because we offer a great opportunity both for businesses and for young and old, to specialize within a large university that is the Universitas Mercatorum, the University of Italian Chambers of Commerce, public and private, with the Pegaso Telematic University and we trust precisely that it will represent an important meeting point and of significant cultural and economic polarity for the entire Mantuan territory.
Francesco Fimmanò - Scientific Director - Pegaso Telematic University
The presence of Universitas Mercatorum in this territory, in particular in reality in agreement with the Mantua Chamber of Commerce and with the Municipality of Curtatone, actually represents the path that has been going on for some years where this public-private partnership represented by the Universitas Mercatorum, which is the University of the Chambers of Commerce, actually creates as training for and for the territory, a 360-degree training that is not only university but also pre- and post-university, aimed in particular at businesses and which therefore does not simply create exam offices in the territories, but provides a sort of support and assistance to the training needs of companies.
Calogero Di Carlo - National Examination Site Manager
We arrived in Curtatone thanks to our Mayor, he is a 4.0 like our University, we are telematic, we arrive in the homes of all the students, we are dynamic and then the Universitas Mercatorum has a peculiarity, it is the University of the Chambers of Commerce, so it is voted for businesses, so in this territory where this activity is really effervescent, there are many businesses important and today I had the opportunity to visit some of them, I believe that here this project will certainly be a great success.
Guerrino Nicchio - Chief Executive Officer - Gamma Laboratory Analysis
It seems to me that this method of university, of teaching, is a method that combines knowledge, which is an important thing, but even with work, with everyday life, with living things on a daily basis, I believe that it is really important.
Vanni Zacchè - Technical Director - Weightpack
We are a company that invests a lot in research, the fact that we have at our disposal an institute that does research, which sets the bar ever higher for research and innovation, certainly puts us in a position to be aligned with what our objectives are, that of generating research.
Francesco Vinaccia - General Agent - Groupama Assurances
I am extremely happy to represent my company at this presentation, the inauguration of the telematic project in Curtatone of the Telematic University 4.0. The company I represent has always been involved in projects for the development and start-up of young people and we are very happy to lend a hand to young people in start-ups and culture.
Irene Pivetti - Former President - Chamber of Deputies
I must say that the opening of the Universitas Mercatorum in Curtatone is a wonderful party and it is also a wonderful opportunity for the territory. The experience of this university that is spreading throughout Italy, bringing together the technologies of telematic learning, that is, distance learning, that is, that learning that is based on the real schedules of a natural person who perhaps also has other occupations on the one hand, and on the other the very high quality of the contents that are conveyed, is a very important response to the needs of the economic fabric.
Massimo Garavaglia - Councillor for the Economy - Lombardy Region
Lombardy is the first region in Italy, but one of the first in Europe in the world for innovation and research. Above all, our companies need speed. State universities take three or four years to activate a new course. Our companies need very fast speed in activating courses and therefore efficiency also in training our young people, let's think of mechatronics, in any sector. And this is an answer, and as usual, Lombardy is at the top.
Carla Cincarilli - Prefect of Mantua
I really liked a concept that an education, a training that comes directly to home, has qualified as an instrument of democracy. As institutions we can only approve something like this, appreciate it because it also becomes a means of solidity for our society. Education for everyone is also a guarantee of maintaining our daily lives.

A new training center for the entire Mantuan territory

The city of Curtatone enthusiastically welcomed the inauguration of the territorial headquarters of Universitas Mercatorum, the university of the Italian Chambers of Commerce. An important event, which marks the beginning of a new phase for training, innovation and local development.

As emphasized by the Mayor of Curtatone, Carlo Bottani, this new opening represents a great opportunity for the entire Mantuan territory: a meeting point between the productive and academic worlds, destined to promote the cultural, professional and economic growth of both young people and workers. An initiative made possible thanks to the synergy between public and private and the collaboration with the Mantua Chamber of Commerce.

The Scientific Director of Universitas Mercatorum and Pegaso Telematic University, Francesco Fimmanò, highlighted that the university is not just an exam venue, but a real competence center that offers 360-degree training: pre-university, university and post-graduate, designed in a targeted way to meet the needs of local businesses.

To strengthen this link with the productive world, Calogero Di Carlo, national head of the examination centers, also intervened, who defined Curtatone as “an effervescent territory”, capable of accommodating a dynamic and modern reality such as Universitas Mercatorum.

The importance of this new reality has also been emphasized by representatives of the business and institutional world. According to Guerrino Nicchio, CEO of Gamma, this is a training model that combines knowledge and concreteness, capable of communicating with the needs of daily work. Along the same lines, Vanni Zacchè of Weightpack, who reaffirmed the strategic value of a training center attentive to research and innovation, key elements for business competitiveness.

Support for the project also came from the insurance world, with the intervention of Francesco Vinaccia (Groupama Assurances), and from Irene Pivetti, former President of the Chamber of Deputies, who emphasized that the telematic university represents today a concrete answer to the needs of flexible, accessible and quality training, in step with the transformations of the world of work.

To close the event, the speech of the Councilor for the Economy of the Lombardy Region, Massimo Garavaglia, who reaffirmed the importance of rapid training in response to the needs of businesses, and of the Prefect of Mantua, Carla Cincarilli, who defined democratic access to education as a fundamental pillar for cohesion and social stability.

The inauguration of the headquarters of Universitas Mercatorum in Curtatone thus represents not only an investment in training, but also a strategic choice to enhance human capital and support the development of the territory.