Sicma endorses the alternating school-work programme

“Sicma InSieme” (Sicma Together)  is the name of the initiative with which Sicma, in Miglianico (Chieti), is participating in the alternating school-work programme, opening the doors of its plants to students of five classes of the secondary school “L. Acciaiuoli – L. Einaudi” in Ortona (Chieti). The alternating school-work programme is part of the innovative reform, titled “La buona scuola” (the good school), promoted by the Ministry of Education in Italy. “Sicma InSieme” took off Thursday, February 23, with a visit-internship in the firm’s headquarters in the Abruzzo region, specialized in the production of agricultural machinery. The training programme, as explained in a note by Sicma, consists in a total of five visits, starting from the SicmA4 plant, where the most important phases of production take place. Here raw materials are turned into chainrings, transmission shafts, gearboxes; it is the plant where the machinery takes shape. The second visit was to the Sicma5 plant, specialized in welding of semi-finished heavy carpentry for assemblage, which takes place in Sicma3. It was not the first time that firm in Abruzzo opened its doors to students, in fact already in mid February the company had welcomed students of the fifth year of the secondary school “Elbistan Mesleki Ve Teknik Anadolu Lisesi” (National Institute of Technology of Motor Vehicles and Machinery) from the Turkish city of Elbistan, capital of the Kahramanmaraş province. The class, fourteen students and two teachers (mechanical engineers), accompanied by an Italo-Turkish interpreter, had been travelling Italy for about ten days on the European programme Erasmus Plus, and expressed the desire to visit firms in the Abruzzo area. The meeting with Sicma was promoted by Fabiana Rocchi, member of the “Submeet - incontrarsi per crescere” association, and the choice was motivated by the fact that, as she herself claimed, Sicma is one of the top firms in a region where everything is “homemade”. The two training initiatives were very successful and were appreciated by the company’s  managers, who are aware of how important it is, especially in the present economic context, to establish a point of contact between schools and the manufacturers of Italy.