Cupertino decided. After the visits in Naples, the iOS academy, the first school for developers of the bitten apple in Europe, will be in San Giovanni in Teduccio in engineering center built in the former Cirio sheds. I have informed the Federico II University and President of the Council, Matteo Renzi , which recalled the visit of Tim Cook at Palazzo Chigi in January, harbinger of this agreement worth 12 million euro for a course that will open officially to October 2016 with more than 200 students the first year and 400 in the future.
iOS developer Academy provides a course of nine months, designed and supported by Apple, at a dedicated facility in the new campus, with laboratories and hardware and Apple software, hosted in a structure that will be adjusted by the same university. The value of this initiative is easy to understand: not only Italy is home to a unique school of its kind, but also determine in a city where there is certainly need investment on youth employment. The importance of these skills do not even to discuss: by 2020 are missing, according to the European Commission, at least 700 thousand jobs in the digital sector, therefore a three-year project that produces hundred developers with a certification Apple that will certainly not open the famous “pizza” (with all due respect for the pizza, also very good in Naples) is an issue that definitely goes sprovincializzato. It makes no sense to criticize Apple’s landing, or the supposed subordination of multinational policy: maybe the classic post with finger pointing is written on an iPhone and posted on a social network.
The course Apple
This particular school in private brand incubated inside a university campus includes two semesters with different objectives. In the first six months, the student improves and elevates its expertise in developing software on iOS; during the second half instead of the course deals with the creation of startups and planning, and the establishment of groups for the creation of apps that could possibly get to the App Store.
Luca Maestri , Apple’s CFO, commenting on the cooperation agreement which provides for an investment of 5.5 million Euros over three years (to pay teachers and some scholarships, to which must be added the € 7 million announced by the Campania Region for other one thousand scholarships), cited the quality of Italian and European developers:
Some of the most creative developers in the world come from Europe, and we are confident that this center will help the next generation to acquire the skills needed to succeed.
of course it is fully satisfied even the rector of the University Federico II, Gaetano Manfredi , according to which this academy “is a complement to traditional programs,” and says something new and important in the entire national level also for its characteristics: the course takes root in a campus and enhances its spaces, is completely free, resembles the creation of a territorial cluster . Students who wish to learn more or apply must go on unina.it site will be asked to make a online test in Italian or English , after which will be admitted to the next stage which includes a interview: . Applicants need not have a background in information technology since the course was designed to support a heterogeneous mix of future developers that ranges in different sectors. The University has also plan hire of teachers in the coming months with announcements of public evidence, is seeking profiles ranging from designers experienced developers and programming teachers.
Renzi , Cook and expectations
the plan to create an iOS developer Academy specializes in Naples was announced for the first time in January by Tim Cook, Apple’s CEO, when he was visiting Matteo Renzi. The goal is to help increase the number of application developers with a higher level of preparation in Italy and Europe. The desired effect is to flesh out the app store, which already has two million applications, which since 2008 has created a whole new industry with more than 1.2 million jobs.
on 22 January, the CEO of Apple, Tim Cook met with the Prime Minister Matteo Renzi at Palazzo Chigi. On that occasion, the CEO of the California-based company has announced plans to open a school in Naples for developers of applications for the devices bitten apple. (Image: Palazzo Chigi – Flick).
Giorgio Ventre: how the Renaissance workshops
Giorgio Ventre , a professor at the “Federico II “and director of the ITEM national laboratory at the national Inter-University Consortium for Informatics, has followed step by step this agreement. He is to explain the philosophy that the business side.
Projects like these change the university for the better, or is an unnatural hybridization?
A I think the project is not only the Apple investment, although it is certainly important and decisive. We are deciding what should become, as the university has to change. Ask if the structured courses, first and second level, traditional, serving in areas such as digital, it makes sense to take five years to achieve a spendable title in an industry that changes every five months? The dichotomy between traditional courses and self-paced learning, perhaps the university can play, take risks.
The Apple over how you structure? It is true that there will be not even the chairs?
Just as in certain disciplines makes more sense a course of this kind, we must inspire more to laboratories that no school classes to make it happen. Teachers will run between the tables, no chair. But the most curious and challenging aspect knows what? That all talk of Silicon Valley, but this model is actually ours.
That is we invented in Italy? When?
During the Renaissance. The Renaissance workshop, I read some time ago in the Harvard Rewiew, it is also more efficient than the silicon valley. And we aspire to represent, this academy for developers, a small example of how you could take in college. A workshop Italian capable of innovation, with a positive economic impact and long-lasting. The crux of the future education goes from here.
Will it work?
We can not know, but I do.
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