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Since the beginning the IAL was an "institution", our mission has been an open and quality training for people. Facing the current challenges it’s necessary to start from the people and work by setting up a network of services for training. At the same time we work keeping in mind the innovation but remaining faithful to the values of solidarity typical of the trade union action.

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While Economy, society, the world of knowledge and work are changing at the same time the needs of people are changing too and gets stronger the need to start again from the work, the value of autonomy and dignity.

Since when the work was considered only "a trade" the IAL has trained thousands of young people, workers, citizens, enterprises through these fifty years of extraordinary transformation of the country and its culture from the economic and social point of view.
The IAL offers paths and growth opportunities both professional and personal as a result of the careful listening to the needs and expectations of people. This action has become more and more complex, specialized and innovative in its methodologies and techniques.

The belief that a good training is the priority based on the promotion and protection of the person, trying to translate constraints into opportunities is the thing that characterize our strategy of work. A belief which is confirmed as we move from an unprecedented economic and financial crisis to a new perspective of growth that will be credible, according to the renewed European strategy, if it will be "sustainable, smart, inclusive".

Growing up in work and its quality it’s the still open challenge on which depend the necessary productivity gains and competitive capacity of the entire system of the country.

This is a challenge giving priority to training in all fields, its value and its quality, not only with respect to education but also to society and the labor market, as a cornerstone of a system of safeguards intended to support the growth of each person, through opportunities of learning involving "long life" and "long wide".

This system is also able to help workers inside and outside the workplace referring to the model of “ active welfare”.
The aim is to consolidate their active policies starting from the supply and demand encounter to the demand of labor intermediation, from the orientation training to the continuous one.
The subsidiary role of social actors is valued trough bilateral agencies and inter professional funds which represent in the trade union’s action an exercise complementary to bargaining and participation.
When training was considered only “training” the IAL has taken the idea of functional training to help the development of the people’s total capacity to try to be protagonists of their future using all the resources, making effective choices being aware at the same time of the possible consequences.

Our crucial role in the world of work has given us the privilege to grow within the real society among young people, workers and closer to the enterprises.
Listening to their needs and responding to their expectations we have improved the social character of our action so we pursued, team up with the trade union work, the compatibility between economic growth, well –being and social cohesion essential condition for the “citizenship”.

Citizenship is challenged today by the labor market, the weak participation of women, young people, stuck without real job offers and by the economic crisis that created also difficulties for the reintegration of the over 50 in mobility.

Those are real needs that require real and personalized answers.
Trough the e-learning program is possible to obtain guidance services and work training matching with supply –demand with the aim of requalification, skills updating and a total retraining.

Ever since the IAL was just an "institution" our mission has been an open, efficient and quality training for people.
Facing the current challenges we decided to star again starting from the people and work trough the innovation setting up a network of training services using the efficiency of the market and a real commitment to the values of solidarity and social cohesion.

For this reason we start again as a social enterprise with a new name – Innovation, learning, work- proud of our mission and our history carrying with us the earned experience thanks to the widespread presence in the country and in Europe and many collaborations with international universities and business community.

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The Secretary of the Confederation and the USR have started with the reorganization of the entire IAL’s network and it has been concluded with the transformation of 14 Regional IAL in Co. Ltd with the title of Social Enterprises.

The National IAL, turned into joint-stock company with the title of social enterprise, has acquired 10% of the Co. Ltd regional’s capital share consolidating in this way the "connection" between those companies and the architecture "system" IAL.
The regional CO. LTD delegates also to the national IAL, beside the representative functions, the formation of employees, executive and management functions, coordination of inter- sectarian activities as well as a permanent audit on the financial balance sheet of all companies.

This path of reorganization and rehabilitation has taken as central references all the expressions of work, its culture and its values, combining the actualized problems with the priorities of education and training.

Ial’s system: regional CO. LTD

The essential steps in IAL’s history and changes completed in a period of remarkable changes in our country.
Giulio Pastore, in relation to the 1st National CGIL’s Congress (Rome, 4-7November 1949) put a new question to the assembly of delegates and to the Italian trade union about professional training, qualification and specialization of adult workers and apprentices.
He described this as "a field in which the union must be able to say his word and also to exercise an explicit function of initiative, as it’s already the case in countries where the union has more developed. "

This "explicit function of initiative" started in 1955 during the constitution of the IAL, a CISL’s body for training, qualification and upgrading Professional, Culture and Social workers.
Since the beginning there was a strong need to "get in this field in specific situations, also to stem the alarming impoverishment of qualification in our workforce, and at the same time to allow the reopening of an important market for worker’s children" .
Those can happen through a professional training aimed specifically at objectives of "first training, qualification, specialization and advanced [...] in favour of apprentices and adult workers" and even then assumed to level "business, intercompany and outside the company."

From these steps completed in an extraordinary historical period full of transformations, the IAL’s structure emerges clearly in its distinctive features that still characterize the journey:

• Work and quality are and remain the centre of our action in its values of independence, dignity and freedom. They constitute the major challenge for the trade union through the contractual and concerted action it reasserts the irreplaceable function of vehicle of citizenship and participation as the basis of our constitutional pact.

• The Good training is the one focused on the person, the one who speaks the language of the promotion, protection, citizenship, trying to translate constraints into opportunities. The one which contrasts "poverty" by supporting individual talents in a larger project of helping people to try to be protagonists of their own destiny. In this sense it’s necessary to use all the resources to make effective choices and being aware of the possible consequences that may result for themselves and for the society.

The IAL’s original mission through the years has been adapt to the evolution of the economy and society, with the rhythm and character of industrial development, the changing world of knowledge and work, to the demands of younger workers. There was a shift from a standardized, sectored, centralized type of market to another specialized, flexible, decentralized and unstructured.

In this direction also the needs and desires of workers and younger people are changing. Those are Real needs that need realistic and personalized answers.
All guidance services, vocational training and matching supply and demand, of training courses about work, qualification, requalification and retraining, updating profiles and skills, even at an high level, are all available through an e –learning procedure.

Since the beginning our mission has been an effective, open and quality training for people. Facing the current challenges our main object is to start from the people and from work finding a stronger ability to act with the logic of innovation, to set up a network of services for training and work following the efficiency and effectiveness of the "market". At the same time this project requires a real commitment to the values of solidarity and attention to the social cohesion.

Today we’re starting over as a social enterprise, delivering our mission through our name - Innovation, Learning, Work - proud of our history and of the professionalism matured In time . Thanks to the widespread presence throughout the country and in major areas of 'Europe, the qualified partnerships with the business community, university and research system even at the international level.