TERAMO − The project Job Shadowing which promotes employee mobility, presented by the universities of Abruzzo, Marche and Umbria, won the PA Color Award promoted by the PA 2024 Forum in the relevant PA section. The ceremony took place on Thursday 23 May in the Palazzo dei Congressi in Rome.
Over 100 applications, divided into 7 different areas of public administration: PA skills; welcoming; digital; simple; open; close. The objective of the award is to discover and enhance the best projects carried out to make the Public Administration ready to respond to the challenges of the future.
The initiative, of which the University of Urbino is the leader, was born as part of the UniAMU memorandum of understanding, a management and administrative collaboration between the Universities of Abruzzo, Marche and Umbria. The project − illustrated yesterday by the general directors of the universities involved − is inspired by the Erasmus program and provides the possibility for the technical, administrative and library staff of the universities that are part of this network to participate in inter-institutional mobility programs, encouraging the sharing of knowledge and skills useful for improving office performance and enriching the cultural and professional background of employees.
The University of Teramo, the University of L’Aquila, the University of Camerino, the University of Macerata, the Polytechnic University of Marche, the University of Perugia, the University of Chieti joined the initiative. Pescara and the Gran Sasso Science Institute.
«I am very satisfied with the result – declared the rector of the University of Teramo Dino Mastrocola – because it is concrete proof of the added value and potential that the universities of Abruzzo, Marche and Umbria which have created UniAMU, a reality which will become a reference for central Italy”.
«The culture of innovation – commented Angela Musumeci, general director of the University of Teramo – is vital for the Public Administration, which represents the fulcrum for the functioning of the country. The very constitution of UniAMU represents a novelty in the ability of institutions to create a system and exchange knowledge, knowledge and good practices. I am sure that universities will be able to promote a culture of innovation based on a set of values, behaviors and practices for the development of new ideas to improve services to citizens.”
