Towards a school for milling industry technicians

by Cisita Parma

Areal permanent School for Milling Industry Technicians: this is the purpose of the initiatives promoted by Italmopa (Association of Italian Millers), ANTIM (Italian Association of Milling Industry Technicians), Unione Parmense degli Industriali (a local association belonging to Confindustria) and the University of Parma. The project stems from a memorandum of understanding signed in 2020 by the entities involved, with Cisita Parma as the training body chosen to implement the activities; it is designed to launch and strengthen an innovative and vocational training offer covering product and process technologies as well as organisational and management models in the milling industry. This projet is addressed both at young people and adults interested in entering this professional sector, and at people already employed in this industrial field in a perspective of constant updating.

The desire to promote the creation of a permanent school for milling industry technicians comes from a real current and, above all, future need for highly specialised technical and professional profiles within Italmopa itself, the trade association that represents the milling industry in Italy, in line with the Italian Association of Milling Industry Technicians (ANTIM). As a matter of fact, on the one hand, the companies in the sector have a real professional need - both current and future - for specialised profiles in the management of the main departments that make up the mill, and on the other hand, technicians and bakery professionals currently employed in those companies also need continuous updating programmes. On top of it all, no training opportunities that can meet the reported needs are regularly available or accessible in Italy, which led Italmopa to promote a path aimed at launching a specifically designed and highly vocational training offer. This project is also strongly supported by the Unione Parmense degli Industriali, which represents the business structure that is strongly oriented on the agro-industrial sector in an area that includes important companies of the Italian milling sector. The first concrete initiatives implemented to achieve these objectives were the courses successfully organised over the last two years by Italmopa in collaboration with Cisita Parma.

The courses

The first course, held between 2020 and 2021, was entitled “Milling Technology & Merchandise. Processes, Charts,

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