Vicenzaoro Highlights, September 2024: The Gold Academy of Tomorrow is Here
Innovative skills and new training courses for the jewelry and watchmaking sector. Topics that were discussed on numerous occasions during these days of the show, at the meeting with the Veneto Productivity Center Foundation, at the CIBJO seminars and wit
Was with other ancient professions, goldsmithing has also evolved a great deal in recent years, becoming a breeding ground for various forms of technology, and now, thanks to 3D printing, CAD, numerical control and lasers, it has increasingly moved away from the idea of the traditional workbench to integrate with the use of PCs and all kinds of machinery. While on the one hand the production process has accelerated, on the other, the training challenge is to keep pace with these epochal changes. The initiative of schools and institutes, such as the CPV Foundation (Veneto Productivity Centre), to bridge this, so to speak, generation gap by proposing new training courses for tomorrow's craftsmen at the Gold Academy Vicenza 1858 - a glorious local institution founded in 1858, is decisive. The talk held at Vicenzaoro’s Educational Hub had the precise aim of reporting the data of the sector study commissioned by Roberto Peripoli, Director of the CPV, and edited by Luca Romano, Director of Local Area Network SRL.
Data which highlights the new training needs and shortcomings encountered in recent years by companies in order to recalibrate future school courses according to these trends. The new Gold Academy courses, outlined during the talk, are therefore the right response to the huge demand for profiles that know how to combine artistic, artisan and digital skills. Explicit proof of this is the more than 100% employment rate of the graduating students from the last two years, in attendance at the show for an initial full immersion in what will be their creative background.
Training was also discussed on Sunday during the presentation of “D.OR. Campania”, an acronym that groups together tradition and innovation with the three production poles of Naples, Marcianise and Torre del Greco, marking a change of pace with the Campania gold and jewelry industry finally systemizing. And this starting with schools, the first step towards approaching the profession. D.OR., whose promoters were Tarì scpa, Oromare Promogest srl and the Consorzio Antico Borgo Orefici, includes the first-class centers of the Tarì Design School, “la Bulla” (Borgo Orefici) and the Degni Institute in Torre del Greco. «For the first time, we are putting the true DNA of Campania together: tradition, production, commercial services and retail united in a network in one institutional entity and with a new outlook. About 600 production companies, 1,400 retailers and over 6,000 employees. The objective is to give unity and international impetus to the thousand-year-old tradition of goldsmithing in Campania,» said Vincenzo Giannotti, President of D.OR.
Those who visit Vicenzaoro know, however, that the days of the show also provide extraordinary educational moment thanks to the numerous talks and courses offered in various fields, such as the Retail Talks organized by Federpreziosi Confcommercio, the Gem Talks in collaboration with IGI, or the full program of haute horlogerie meetings, experiences and meet-ups at VO' Clock. In the foyer on the first floor of the Expo Centre, trade professionals and enthusiasts were able to discuss and satisfy their curiosity with master watchmakers, entrepreneurs and influencers, offering a dynamic and lively image of a sector that is now closely linked to the jewelry world at Vicenzaoro, which also includes Time, the BtoB area, and VO Vintage, the event open to the public, scheduled for the next edition in January.
Data which highlights the new training needs and shortcomings encountered in recent years by companies in order to recalibrate future school courses according to these trends. The new Gold Academy courses, outlined during the talk, are therefore the right response to the huge demand for profiles that know how to combine artistic, artisan and digital skills. Explicit proof of this is the more than 100% employment rate of the graduating students from the last two years, in attendance at the show for an initial full immersion in what will be their creative background.
Training was also discussed on Sunday during the presentation of “D.OR. Campania”, an acronym that groups together tradition and innovation with the three production poles of Naples, Marcianise and Torre del Greco, marking a change of pace with the Campania gold and jewelry industry finally systemizing. And this starting with schools, the first step towards approaching the profession. D.OR., whose promoters were Tarì scpa, Oromare Promogest srl and the Consorzio Antico Borgo Orefici, includes the first-class centers of the Tarì Design School, “la Bulla” (Borgo Orefici) and the Degni Institute in Torre del Greco. «For the first time, we are putting the true DNA of Campania together: tradition, production, commercial services and retail united in a network in one institutional entity and with a new outlook. About 600 production companies, 1,400 retailers and over 6,000 employees. The objective is to give unity and international impetus to the thousand-year-old tradition of goldsmithing in Campania,» said Vincenzo Giannotti, President of D.OR.
Those who visit Vicenzaoro know, however, that the days of the show also provide extraordinary educational moment thanks to the numerous talks and courses offered in various fields, such as the Retail Talks organized by Federpreziosi Confcommercio, the Gem Talks in collaboration with IGI, or the full program of haute horlogerie meetings, experiences and meet-ups at VO' Clock. In the foyer on the first floor of the Expo Centre, trade professionals and enthusiasts were able to discuss and satisfy their curiosity with master watchmakers, entrepreneurs and influencers, offering a dynamic and lively image of a sector that is now closely linked to the jewelry world at Vicenzaoro, which also includes Time, the BtoB area, and VO Vintage, the event open to the public, scheduled for the next edition in January.
