ECOLE – Enti COnfindustriali Lombardi per l’Education is a company tailored on vocational training and job services formed by seven associations, part of the national industrial association system:Assolombarda Milano Monza e Brianza, Associazione Industriali di Cremona, Confindustria Alto Milanese, Confindustria Como, Confindustria Lecco e Sondrio, AIOP Lombardia, UCIMU-Sistemi per Produrre.Such associations represent more than 8.000 companies and 420.000 employees.We mainly operate on Lombardy Region and we are able to reach national borders thanks to the presence of UcimuSistemi per Produrre.ECOLE has two main aims:• to promote, organize and coordinate vocational training activities, careers guidance, also through public funding;• to design and manage job services, especially those devoted to retraining and outplacement services.In the vocational training activities, ECOLE’s main objective is to promptly and accurately meet business development and required changes, both in the field of human resources and in the field of technological and organizational innovation, by integrating standard handover of theory knowledge and know-how with delivery of on the job training, as well as by providing to firm’s education and self-development opportunities.Among the job services ECOLE delivers skills assessment and competences’ certification; the process of competences’ certification that allows the individual to appraise the competences acquired through any kind of learning, whether formal or informal, giving evidence in forms and patterns recognized at a regional level.ECOLE is as body accredited at regional level and issues, on behalf of the Region Lombardy, certificates of competences with respect to the regional framework of professional standards (QRSP), adopted by the Region Lombardy in 2008. ECOLE has 40 employees and it managed and implemented 3300 hours of training in 2020.