It took a few months of dialogue to reach a decision, three meetings to choose the venue. And here at the dawn of the seventh month it is written and also signed the contract between the University Federico II and Apple for the launch of the first iOS Developer in Naples Academy of Europe.
It’s not all in October (tenth month of the first announcement in January by the President of the Council, Matteo Renzi, and Tim Cook, CEO of Apple.) The initiative will officially start with over 200 students (to be doubled from the second year) will participate in the first course in the new building of St. John’s campus in Teduccio, in the eastern suburbs. In short, unusual time for an investment in Italy and especially in the South: for once, the Italian bureaucracy and complex procedures have not been put across.
“Immediately selecting percent researchers will double in autumn”
the contract signed yesterday sets the stage for a scientific and technological cooperation between the two partners that will last for three years now, but hopefully will automatically renew. The University Federico II invests in the operation 6 million to adapt the structures of the St. John’s campus in Teduccio where will be located the headquarters of the Academy and to hire teachers also external to its own and the Campania universities. American society for its part will invest a similar amount, quantified at the time of $ 2 million a year.
Apple, from October to Naples the first iOS Developer Academy of Europe
The Neapolitan of the university teachers more involved in the planning stages are working feverishly to prepare the calls: the first for students could be published within the next week. Selected students will participate in a course of nine months, designed and supported by Apple. The selection will be made for most on-line. The same will happen for teachers.
The goal is to train designers and developers of applications: an industry with great potential, given that to date, with over 2 million app, the App Store has created 1.2 million jobs only in Europe since 2008. developers in Europe were paid almost 10 billion for the sale of their app in the world.
“We are delighted to be working with the University Federico II to launch the first iOS Developer Academy in Europe – said Luca Maestri, CEO of Apple – 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. ” The Neapolitan initiative is first in Europe and third in the world, after similar experiences in Brazil.
He also commented the rector Gaetano Manfredi, “The Federico II continues to respond to the training needs related to new technologies , which should be a complement to traditional programs that the University will continue to offer with commitment and quality. ”
Among the first to comment on fb the news, the prime minister, Matteo Renzi. “The Apple Academy will involve the whole of Campania university system, opening the doors to hundreds of students. The courses are free and some of the students will be eligible for scholarships. If we stop with the story without salvation South and value the excellence that are so numerous, we can do it, as we also say to Istat. I am sure – he concludes – that local entrepreneurs will support and sustain this great opportunity. My compliments to the first rector Gaetano Manfredi. ”
The Region of Campania, for its part, has decided to support the program by providing 7 million to fund 1000 scholarships for the Campania talents or from other countries, which in the next three years will attend the `Factory’ Naples.
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