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CHAPTER 5 | Ratti, adding value to the community and the region
The experience these young people have had will help them in their professional choices precisely because they have shared with their group the atmosphere that pervades the company, and they have learned to appreciate
our art and our values, acquiring an awareness of knowledge and abilities that up until now may have been dormant.
this visit, a debate was organised directly by Club
IACDE Italia in the Ratti Foundation, led by Dr Gian
Mario Borney, Fashion Strategies Advisor. Participants included Sergio Tamborini, CEO of the Ratti Group, Giorgio Todesco, CEO of Marzotto Wool Manufacturing and Simone Visani, Head of Sales & Marketing at FPMA Italia. A clear takeaway from the event was the trend of great changes that companies will need to face in the near future: the evolution of consumers and markets, transparent business models, innovation in processes and organisations, exploiting the potential of new technologies, more speed and flexibility on the industrial front, product quality, safeguarding the environment, safety and social accountability.
5.2 Believing in talent, investing in the future
Schools, universities and training
The Ratti Group, as a part of its profuse commitment
to developing talent, annually designs a programme of on-the-job training and training aimed at the younger generation. Simultaneously, it continues to partner with schools and universities both in Italy and abroad. These ideas and projects are born out of a synergy between Ratti and the schools who are, collectively, seeking to launch a new fashion paradigm with a more responsible and sustainable focus.
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.
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. The designers learn directly in the departments to acquire operational autonomy, to choose fabrics and materials for the future and to liaise professionally with the customer, facing the problems of the sector. Company visits offer a chance to consult the archives and to observe, close up, the creative journey and the production cycle.
Ratti is once again partnering with “Setificio” ISIS Paolo Carcano on the ITS course. The objective of this course is to train professionals in the creative and industrial area (the high-level technique of production and process
in the designing and planning of textile, clothing and fashion articles), through a powerful synergy between classroom training (1100 hours) and working in the company (900 hours). Ratti supports the project by welcoming youngsters to the company by offering them high-level training apprenticeships.
Another partnership launched by Ratti is with Liceo Artistico del Centro Studi Casnati di Como. This involves producing videos for the company’s social platforms. The project, which was launched in November 2018, has been followed by teachers and students of
the Audiovisual and Multimedia course. It also benefited from the presence of a teacher/trainer from Istituto Marangoni, which is a partner of Centro Studi Casnati. The main focus of the project was Instagram, the social
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