The project was launched in February 2014, with the support of the Prime Minister's Office which has helped the project financially. It was aimed at encouraging the transfer of skills by workers over 50 to those under 30. It has 20 workers involved in the pilot experience as tutors, 42 young people who have recently begun work, not all of them from Piedmont, and 7 between companies and organizations from Turin and Biella.
Starting with the methodologies that CIOFS-FP has developed in fifty years of training and guidance, a programme has been organized with precise objectives and many tools: Lab activities, specific training to enable the senior worker to become a mentor. learning clubs, coaching sections, tools such as the "skills assessment" and a web platform - ePortfolio - available to companies to evaluate the professional development of young people.
Through these tools, united in a single programme, the young people have gained a great self-awareness of their employability and workers and businesses have gained a sense of responsibility towards the young.
The project results of the project were presented in Turin on 23 March. On the occasion, Silvana Rasello, President of CIOFS-FP in Piedmont, besides underlining the satisfaction expressed by all participants in the initiative, said that "the true figure to note is that people from the business world involved have expressed their intention to redefine practices and internal guidelines for companies to use the OPEN method."
