SPECIALIZED TRAINING
An Industrial Painting School in the Future of ipcm® Academy Monica Fumagalli ipcm®
W
e continue our series of interviews
systems for metal finishing lines. Thanks to
undoubtedly the variety of sectors to which
with the protagonists of the
their experience in the educational field,
the students belong and the fact that they
professional training courses
we have gathered many interesting ideas
do not always have a university education, as
organised by ipcm® Academy, our publishing
and suggestions that will also help lay the
is the case for some of the lectures we give
house’s division specialising in the education
foundations for the project of setting up an
at the Politecnico di Milano. This is exciting
and training of coating technicians. This time,
industrial painting school, which is among the
because, on the one hand, we are confronted
we have involved two lecturers who started
next main objectives of ipcm® Academy.
with people with different work experiences (including, sometimes, no experience at all,
their collaboration with the Academy in 2019: Franco Falcone, an expert in aluminium
“One of the most stimulating aspects that
as in the case of high school graduates), and,
surface treatments, and Anastasios Vergani,
a vocational teacher can find in the ipcm®
on the other hand, we are called to find the
an expert in waste water treatment and ZLD
Academy courses,” says Franco Falcone, “is
key to help people with different levels of
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