ROVIGO – It was signed this morning all’Urban Digital Center – InnovationLab of Rovigo a memorandum of understanding between the Cisl Padua Rovigo and the Cur (Rovigo University Consortium) for an orientation service aimed at foreign students of the faculty of Water and geological risk engineeringThe project benefits from the collaboration of two Cisl services: the job desk for the orientation part and theAnolf for assistance with bureaucratic procedures, necessary for off-site students, and will take place in English, for greater inclusion and to enhance skills within the Cisl Padua Rovigo.
The initiative was illustrated by the general secretary of CISL Padova Rovigo Samuel Scavazzinfrom the president of the Cur Diego Crivellarifrom the head of the Cisl Padova Rovigo Job Centre Alessandra Munaro and by the president of Anolf Padova Rovigo Patrick Ogbonnia. The project is part of a program of activities and projects promoted by Cisl Padua Rovigo titled “From C-isl to Z generation”, implemented also thanks to the funding received from the tender Pari of the Veneto Region. The program, with the slogan “Cisl Padova Rovigo grows with young people”, has already involved students from Polesine, this time high school, with a project implemented in collaboration with Itis Viola Marchesini which developed in the months of April and May, with a cycle of meetings aimed at raising awareness among boys and girls on the topic of gender equality in personal, social, friend or family relationships.
The Secretary Digger thanked the Cur for its contribution “in the face of the greatest challenge of our time and above all of our territory: the demographic glaciation. The Cur is a hotbed that attracts young people and our goal is to prevent them from leaving after graduation. We want to make him know and love our territory, helping them to experience the community. This intuition will allow students to take immediate action for orientation, through the employment desk, and for bureaucratic procedures with Anolf. The challenge is very intriguing. We have to perform. It starts from love for the area and also for one’s students, to make them feel more like Polesine and keep them here. We think that inclusion is also a way to live everyday life better. So we start with those who have slightly stronger needs, such as foreign students, and then extend the services to others too. This project can also be a spur for politics to take action to create job prospects and make the city more lively.”
“This is an unprecedented service,” he added. Crivellari – but with highly innovative features, which is aimed at our young students and will concern the theme of orientation according to an inclusive, transversal perspective and closely connected to our territorial reality. Ultimately, here is another piece for the many activities of the Cur and a new step forward for the construction of a university always tailored to the student”.
The Vice President of the Board of Directors of the Cur Paolo Avezzù thanked the CISL “for this opportunity for collaboration, which the Cur intends to extend to other faculties as well. In the next few days we will organize a meeting to take stock of this mandate of the Board of Directors, 3 and a half years after its establishment, which is increasingly shaping Rovigo as a university city, of welcome, inclusion and integration”.
Per Alessandra Munarofrom the head of the Cisl Padova Rovigo Job Centre, “the challenge is to welcome students by offering them the image of an inclusive territory and to understand their needs, to try to provide answers. This is why we offer students meetings lasting approximately 45 minutes, for a maximum number of five interviews. In the first we will try to understand what their needs are: from drafting the CV to the bureaucratic procedures needed to work. For example, can the study residence permit be transformed into a work permit? In this case we will direct them to Anolf. First of all it’s about listening. The other challenge that is interesting for us is that the service will be carried out in English, also because the majority of the students are foreign”.
Anolf is in fact the association established by Cisl to protect the rights of foreign citizens. “Here in Rovigo we are very active – observed the president Patrick Ogbonnia – and we never work alone. Let’s build bridges with other associations. Rovigo is a strategic reality and the Cur and the CISL have understood this. We need to look to the future. Last year here in Rovigo we managed many student cases who transformed their residence permit from study to permanent work, but also to self-employment. And this means that companies managed by foreigners are emerging which will make this reality grow even more in the future. We help students fall in love with this area.”
