“Una Scuola, un Lavoro”(One School, One Job): traineeships kick off

Between January and February, all 27 internships of the project “Una Scuola, un Lavoro. Percorsi di Eccellenza” (One School, One Job. Pathways to Excellence), the program promoted and financed by the Fondazione Cologni and realized thanks to the project’s main partners, Fondazione Cariplo and Costa Crociere Foundation.

The talents selected among the most promising in the field of artistic craftsmanship, after the “Mini Master” in Milan, during which they were hosted for a month by Starhotels, which supports the initiative, now begin their journey in the field, in close contact with the Master craftsmen who will train them for the next 6 months. This year the internships will take place in 12 Italian regions: Campania, Emilia-Romagna, Friuli Venezia Giulia, Lazio, Liguria, Lombardy, Marche, Piedmont, Puglia, Sardinia, Sicily and Veneto. The young trainees will each specialize in a different sector: restoration of books, paintings, textiles and musical instruments, goldsmithing, violin making, haute cuisine and the art of bakery, stained glass, special effects for cinema, costumes and make-up for the performing arts, tailoring, pebble mosaics, puppet art and nativity scene art, leather goods, ceramics, Murano glassware, footwear, bookbinding, traditional weaving. In May, the Cologni Foundation will present, on the website unascuolaunlavoro.it, the portraits and stories of the young people, the future heirs of these arts.