The concept of Exhibition and Masterpieces dates back to the time of Don Bosco, when in 1884 he participated in the National Exhibition of Science and Technology in Turin with his pavilion called: "Don Bosco – paper factory, typography, foundry, bookbinding and Salesian bookshop" a jewel of innovation and technology in which the key players were the young people at Valdocco.
The Masterpiece is the educational tool that in the Salesian tradition represents the best way to encourage students, their learning, their creativity, the role they plays in their own formation process.
The Masterpiece is the playground in which young people measure themselves against the world of business and work, which will soon have to accept them and include them in production processes and value their talents.
The Exhibition of Masterpieces is the environment par excellence where companies come into play as leaders, protagonists in measuring the level of professional preparation of students, and the event in which the synergy between the world of work and the Vocational Training Centre is strengthened and consolidated.
It is a training opportunity that pursues the promotion of the quality of Vocational Education and Training, integrating all the aspects listed in a single event, providing young people with the possibility of a comparison with the outside world on the value of what has been achieved, of the knowledge acquired in courses, urging the Vocational Training Centres to test their skills, involving companies in the validation of the work carried out.
In the Salesian context, the masterpiece is both a learning tool and a test by which the students of vocational education and training courses demonstrate that they have the necessary skills to face the tasks and problems for the professional field in which they have been trained and are about to deserve a professional qualification. The formative and evaluative value of the masterpiece indicates competence understood as the individual's mastery demonstrated in action, expresses the ability to use personal knowledge, skills and attitudes in a work situation.
At the launch event scheduled for 29 February 2024, in Milan, taking part will be Simona Tiron, Councillor for Education, Training and Labour from the Lombardy Region, representative of the Regional Institution that invests large resources in the Vocational Education and Training System betting on young talents and on a strong Regional System; and Giovanni Brugnoli, Vice President of Confindustria with delegation to Human Capital, a significant representative of the productive world that today denounces a misalignment between demand and supply of work and that is, however, called upon to value the young talents of today in a commitment to growth for the future of all.
Finally, there will be representatives of large companies and national and international companies who are daily bearers of interests in relations with the Salesian Vocational Training Centres of CNOS-FAP and who collaborate with them to achieve the training objectives of young people, through technological innovation and the know-how of their professionals.
