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CHAPTER 5 | Ratti, adding value to the community and the region
magazine dedicated to sustainability in the textile world.
As the crowning achievement of the strategy followed, in 2018 Ratti joined the Comitato di sostenibilità di Sistema Moda Italia (Sustainability Committee of the Italian Fashion System), one of the largest global organisations representing the textile and fashion industries in the West,
and which represents a sector boasting 400,000 staff and around 50,000 companies.
5.2 Believing in talent, investing in the future
Schools, universities and training
For the Ratti Group, believing and investing in the younger generation, cooperating with Italian and international schools and universities, means encouraging growth and mutual enrichment.
Two worlds, Ratti and schools, which in recent years have often been intertwined, breathing life into
ideas and projects consisting of stories, talent and, most of all, people. Ratti invests in young people, seeking new talent and enhancing these employees’ growth through continuous internal and external training.
The company cultivates its relationship and strengthens its cooperation with fashion and design institutes through taking on talented young people as interns with competitions
and project work, supporting undergraduates during their thesis projects, supplying fabrics for laboratories or courses and as a technical sponsor of events, exhibitions and competitions organised by schools and universities. Internships and other opportunities for growth in the company are explained in the relevant section Young Talent on the website, where aspiring candidates can fill in a contact form to register as candidates.
In addition to university programmes, Ratti is also involved with students from highs schools and vocational schools. Young people from Italy and all over the world participate in the workshops, which offer a unique training experience thanks to their mix of applied creativity, inspiration from the past and the latest technology.
Designers learn on-the-job to deal with the issues of the sector, from choosing fabrics and materials for the future to developing operative autonomy and dealing professionally with the customer. Company visits offer a chance to consult the archives and to observe, close up, the creative journey and the production cycle.
The attention Ratti pays to young people begins
in high school: with its work-school alternation programme, Ratti hosts – for a period ranging from one to three months – 12 students from various schools in the region, focusing on various areas such as fabric, accountancy, IT and languages. Supported by a tutor, the students are placed in various areas so they can gain a more practical experience of the topics they study at school.
This is an initiative which allows them to develop their skills and enter into 360-degree contact with the world of work.
Through training courses, internships, study bursaries, and competitions to reward the best projects, Ratti also partners with the best schools, universities and fashion and design institutes, whether locally or internationally, such as Accademia del Costume, IED – Istituto Europeo
di Design, IUAV University in Venice, Setificio in Como.
As a partner of Camera Moda Italia (the National Chamber for Italian Fashion), Ratti has spent time with young people who stand out in terms of
Ratti receives an award for its Social Report
The Social Report Library is a meeting point that encourages and makes it possible to consult sustainability reports at national level.
It is a documentation centre that can be accessed by anyone (associations, consumers, students, universities, the world of information, institutions and companies) who over time want to understand and evaluate all the information contained in these documents.
This association has set itself
the goal of sharing the data and news published in the reports to
an increasingly wider audience, representing a meeting point that encourages and makes it possible to consult, at national level, the social, environmental and sustainability reports produced by Italian companies.
Every year the Social Report Library presents an award to the company that has distinguished itself in the area of sustainability through its
reporting instrument. The event, which had its fifth edition in 2018, was held on 5 December at the Fondazione Ambrosianeum in Milan.
The main purpose of the prize is to attest to the contents published in the sustainability reports, with the intention of sharing these values
and stories with the widest possible audience. This year the event focused on the importance of integrating sustainability into corporate plans, and to what extent this could be
a key element for growth and development.
Of the ten companies involved, Ratti (second place), together with Fruttagel (first place), PanariaGroup and Piaggio (equal third place) Gruppo Bper, Deco, Enel, Gruppo RDM, Società Gas Rimini and Vodafone Italia, was given the chance to present its sustainable vision and to share the current and future projects that are part of the “Ratti for Responsibility” journey that began in 2011.
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