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Summary The Inter-University Consortium AlmaLaurea, based in Bologna, this year celebrates twenty years of activity: founded in 1994, today it brings together 65 Italian universities, representing more than 80% of the national student population. Since then, AlmaLaurea has grown, exporting world-wide a system, unique in Europe, that has obtained international recognition. Besides reducing the gap between demand and supply for jobs, AlmaLaurea has created a tool capable of evaluating and monitoring, in the short, medium and long term, the outcome of graduates’ study and employment, one, three and five years after they have graduated. Through its annual surveys, the Consortiumthus provides each participating university, the governing bodies of the universities, evaluation cells, and committees involved in teaching activities and counseling with complete, timely and reliable documentation. In addition, its database, which contains almost 2,000,000 certified CVs in Italian and in English, is also an important supporting tool for both public and private Italian and foreign companies.Riassunto Il Consorzio Interuniversitario AlmaLaurea compie quest’anno vent’anni: nato nel 1994, raccoglie 65 atenei italiani rappresentando oltre l’80% della popolazione studentesca nazionale. Da allora ad oggi, AlmaLaurea, che ha sede a Bologna, è cresciuta esportando a livello mondiale un sistema, unico in Europa, che ha riscosso numerosi riconoscimenti a livello internazionale. AlmaLaurea oltre a incrociare domanda e offerta di lavoro, ha creato un meccanismo capace di valutare e monitorare nel breve, medio e lungo periodo gli esiti di studio ed occupazionali dei laureati, a uno, tre e cinque anni dalla laurea. Il Consorzio grazie alle sue indagini annuali restituisce così a ognuna delle università aderenti, agli Organi di Governo degli Atenei, ai Nuclei di Valutazione, alle Commissioni impegnate nella Didattica e nell’Orientamento una documentazione completa, tempestiva, affidabile. Grazie alla sua banca dati, in cui sono raccolti circa 2.000.000 CV certificati, sia in italiano che in inglese, rappresenta uno strumento importante di supporto anche per le aziende pubbliche e private italiane ed estere.Résumé Le Consortium interuniversitaire AlmaLaurea, situé à Bologne, fête ses 20 ans cette année: né en 1994, il réunit 65 universités italiennes, et représente plus de 80 % de la population estudiantine italienne. Depuis sa fondation, AlmaLaurea s’est développé, en exportant mondialement un système qui n’a pas d’équivalents en Europe, et qui lui a valu de nombreux prix internationaux. AlmaLaurea croise l’offre et la demande, et s’est doté d’un mécanisme capable d’évaluer et de tracer les résultats des diplômés, au niveau académique et d’emploi, et ce un, trois et cinq ans après l’obtention du diplôme, sur la courte, moyenne et longue période. Par ses enquêtes annuelles, le Consortium peut transmettre à chacune des universités adhérentes, aux organismes de gouvernement des universités, aux centres d’évaluation, aux commissions préposées à la pédagogie et à l’orientation une documentation complète, actualisée et fiable. Sa banque de données, qui réunit environ 2 000 000 de profils certifiés, en italien et en anglais, est un outil important, apprécié par les entreprises publiques et privées, aussi bien italiennes qu’étrangères.Zusammenfassung Der interuniversitäre Verband AlmaLaurea mit Sitz in Bologna feiert dieses Jahr den 20. Jahrestag seiner Entstehung: im Jahr 1994 schlossen sich 65 italienische Universitäten zusammen, die über 80 % der nationalen Studentenbevölkerung darstellen. Seitdem ist AlmaLaurea gewachsen und konnte ein in Europa einzigartiges System in die Welt tragen, das zahlreiche internationale Anerkennungen erhalten hat. AlmaLaurea trägt nicht nur dazu bei, Angebot und Nachfrage zusammenzuführen, sondern hat auch einen Mechanismus geschaffen, der in der Lage ist, kurz- mittel- und langfristig, d. h. im Verlauf von ein, drei und fünf Jahren nach Universitätsabschluss die Ergebnisse von Studium und Stellensuche der Universitätsabgänger zu überwachen. Dank seiner jährlichen Untersuchungen stellt der Verband den Mitgliedsuniversitäten, den Rektoraten der Universitäten, den Bewertungsorganen, den in Didaktik und Berufsberatung engagierten Kommissionen eine vollständige, aktuelle und zuverlässige Dokumentation zur Verfügung. Dank seiner Datenbank, die ca. 2.000.000 zertifizierte Lebensläufe sowohl in italienischer als auch in englischer Sprache enthält, stellt der Verband auch eine wichtige Unterstützung der öffentlichen und privaten Unternehmen in Italien und im Ausland dar.Resumen El Consorcio Interuniversitario AlmaLaurea, sito en Bolonia, este año celebra su vigésimo aniversario: instituido en 1994, agrupa a sesenta y cinco universidades italianas, por lo que representa a más del 80% de la población estudiantil de Italia. Desde entonces hasta hoy, AlmaLaurea ha crecido y ha exportado a nivel mundial un sistema único en Europa que ha merecido numerosos reconocimientos en el ámbito internacional.AlmaLaurea, además de poner en contacto oferta y demanda laboral, ha creado un mecanismo capaz de realizar el seguimiento a corto, medio y largo plazo de la situación académica y laboral de los titulados al cabo de uno, tres y cinco años de su graduación. El Consorcio, gracias a sondeos anuales, brinda información completa, oportuna y fidedigna a cada una de las universidades que lo componen, a los órganos de gobierno de las universidades, los centros de evaluación, y las comisiones de enseñanza y orientación.Gracias a su base de datos, que contiene más de dos millones de currículos certificados, tanto en italiano como en inglés, representa una herramienta de apoyo importante para empresas públicas y privadas de Italia y del exterior.简介 位于博洛尼亚的Almalaurea大学联盟成立20年了：这个诞生于1994年的联盟吸收了65所大学成员，代表80%的全意大学生。从那时起，Almalaurea一直作为一个国际的、欧洲独一无二的组织成长起来。Almalaurea为职需要与就业机会提供桥梁，同时还建立起一个有效的评估系统，可根据一年、三年及五年分类，针对毕业生学习成绩及工作成绩做短期、中期及长期评估。每年一次的调研保证联盟为成员大学、高校管理机构、评估中心、教学及指导委员会提供一份全面、即使、可信的资料。在大学联盟的数据库中，保存着两百万份获得认证的英意双语简历，这也为国内外公共及个人企业提供了极为重要的支持。Резюме В этом году межуниверситетскому консорциуму AlmaLaurea г. Болоньи исполнилось двадцать лет. Он был основан в 1994 году, в него входят 65 итальянских уни-верситетов и он представляет свыше 80% студенческого населения всей страны. С тех пор консорциум AlmaLaurea развивался и вывел на мировой уровень уникаль-ную в Европе систему, получившую многочисленные признания на международной арене. AlmaLaurea не только объединяет спрос и предложение на рынке труда, но и создал механизм для оценки и прослеживания в течение короткого, среднего и длительного срока результатов учебы и работы выпускников университетов спустяодин, три и пять лет после защиты диплома. Благодаря ежегодным исследовани-ям Консорциум предоставляет полную, оперативную и надежную информацию ка-ждому участвующему университету, ученым советам университетов, управлениям проверок и контроля, управлениям развития образовательного процесса и профо-риентации. В его базе данных собраны около 2 000 000 сертифицированных резю-ме на итальянском и английском языке, которые являются важным инструментом также и для государственных и частных организаций Италии и других стран.
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A    LMALAUREA: SIC TRANSIT GLORIA MUNDI


   Andrea Cammelli•
   Fondatore e Direttore del Consorzio Interuniversitario AlmaLaurea, Bologna, Italia



   Keywords: AlmaLaurea, education, university, employment, graduates, young people



   1. Introduction

    The Inter-University Consortium AlmaLaurea [1 – 2] this year celebrates its first twen-
ty years of activity: this bottom-up initiative first started in 1994 as a simple experiment
in the basement of the Faculty of Statistics in the University of Bologna, from the idea of
Andrea Cammelli, professor of social statistics at the Alma Mater Studiorum (while Fa-
bio Roversi Monaco was the Dean); today, it includes 65 Italian universities from North,
South and Central Italy, representing more than 80% of the national student popula-
tion (Figure 1). Since then, AlmaLaurea has grown not only at home but also abroad,
exporting world-wide a system, unique in Europe, that has obtained several acknowl-
edgements on an international scale. In addition to matching job supply and demand,
since 1998 – year of the first statistic reports – Alma Laurea has been developing a tool
capable of evaluating and monitoring in the short, middle and long term the outcome of
graduates’ study (after four months from the end of the academic year) and employment




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after one, three and five years from graduation. Thanks to its annual surveys, the Con-
sortium thus provides each participating university with complete, up-to-date and reli-
able documentation on the characteristics of their students, sorted by degree course. It
moreover contributes to ensuring the Governing Bodies of the universities that are part of
the Consortium, together with the Evaluation Cells, and Committees dealing with Teach-
ing Activities and Career Guidance, a reliable and timely basis for documentation and
verification, aimed at fostering all decision-making processes and activity planning, with
a special focus on student training and services. The immediate on-line availability of the
documentation, broken down by type of degree, University, faculty/school/department,
disciplinary group, degree course and class therefore allows each university to answer
to the requests of the Ministry of Education and of the National Agency for the Evaluation
of Universities and Research Institutes (ANVUR). Thanks to its database, with almost
2,000,000 certified CVs both in Italian and in English, which are, for the most part, up-
dated to include the most recent work experiences, AlmaLaurea has represented for a
long time, for public, private, Italian and foreign companies, an important tool in help-
ing to evaluate potential job applicants, as well as a fundamental platform for effective
guidance in choosing a career path after high school. In the last ten years, AlmaLaurea
has provided Italian and foreign companies with more than 3 and a half million CVs.
AlmaLaurea, moreover, works to facilitate and democratize young people’s access to

• Corresponding author: andrea.cammelli@unibo.it

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                                                       the Italian and international job market through the valorization of human capital. In this
                                                       area, the potential contribution of AlmaLaurea covers various fields, and in particular, the
                                                       possibility for enterprises to manage their own human resources more efficiently, starting
                                                       from the selection of university graduates of Italian nationality or from the countries with
                                                       which companies wish to internationalize themselves [3].
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                                                       Figure 1. The AlmaLaurea website gathers all information about the world of education and work




                                                          2. The Alma Laurea survey

                                                          Every year, AlmaLaurea draws up the Annual Report on Graduates’ Employ-
                                                       ment Situation [4]: a tool for studying in depth the prospects in the job market and
                                                       the relations between university students and graduates’ employment opportunities,
                                                       one, three and five years after graduation. It gives a broad and detailed picture of the
                                                       type of working activity carried out, the salary of the employed and their job satisfac-
                                                       tion, the branch and sector in which they work, the use of skills acquired at University
                                                       for doing their job. This picture is further enriched by enabling interesting comparisons
                                                       to be made, for example by course, gender, geographical area. In-depth analysis on
                                                       specific and current issues are explored every year using ad-hoc studies [5]. Each


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Figure 2. The AlmaLaurea surveys provide a broad detailed picture of Italian graduates’
occupational and educational performances

year AlmaLaurea also draws up its Report on graduates’ profiles [6], published by
the end of May of the following year. The survey analyses and interprets the wealth of
information contained in the relevant database for graduates. The abundance of infor-
mation is guaranteed by the integration of documentation from administrative services
of the universities and the information taken from questionnaires submitted to students
finishing university. The Graduate Profile Report provides a large detailed photograph
of graduates’ main characteristics, of their success at university (in terms of degree
marks and steady progress in studies), of study conditions in university and satisfac-
tion for the degree course they have just concluded.



  3. AlmaDiploma and AlmaOrièntati




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   AlmaDiploma [7 – 9] was founded in 2000 to promote the insertion of young high
school graduates into the employment market through a database called AlmaDiplo-
ma, which today numbers almost 300 high school institutes. Created on the AlmaLau-
rea model, AlmaDiploma has among its main goals that of offering concrete support




                    Figure 3. The AlmaOrièntati App, the student
                    information and career guidance for high school




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                                                       in career guidance; to analyze the internal efficacy of educational structures within the
                                                       Institutes through dedicated surveys; to analyze the external efficacy of educational
                                                       offers the Institutes provide through systematically monitoring high school graduates’
                                                       employment opportunities; to implement the AlmaDiploma database constantly and
                                                       progressively updating high school graduates’ professional career. Assuming that right
                                                       career guidance for young people not only allows a pay-off in terms of reduced costs,
                                                       but also more satisfied human capital with regard to personal choices, and being more
                                                       productive for the country, AlmaLaurea and AlmaDiploma created AlmaOrièntati [10]
                                                       (Figure 3).

                                                         The various steps to follow are easily accessible online and have been created with
                                                       the help of a team of psychologists, sociologists, and experts in statistics and computer
                                                       science, coordinated by AlmaLaurea, which has set itself an ambitious goal: to tackle
                                                       the drop-out rate during the first year of university, which is often the result of superfi-
                                                       cial decision-making.

                                                          The pathway is accessible not only from the AlmaLaurea and AlmaDiploma web-
                                                       sites, but also by means of a mobile web version for any smartphone and through an
                                                       App (for Android and iOS); it provides the user with personalized career guidance –
                                                       but at the same time is accessible to all. At the end, everyone is given a detailed pro-
                                                       file, full of ideas to think about. The starting point is the self-assessment the young
                                                       person makes of his own strengths, in order to subsequently suggest more detailed
                                                       opportunities through questions about the area of post high school training and em-
                                                       ployment. Then, on the basis of the preferences expressed about studying subjects,
                                                       users are provided with a list of degree courses according to the educational con-
                                                       tents that best correspond to the interests they have just expressed. In addition,
                                                       for each degree course, they receive all documentation regarding the survey on
                                                       the evaluation of their studying experience together with results relating to employ-
                                                       ment outcomes. This documentation, carefully gathered each year and constantly
                                                       updated, intends to be of help in making more careful evaluations. AlmaOrièntati has
                                                       been acknowledged by the MIUR (Ministry of University Education and Research) as
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                                                       a valid tool for career guidance. Every year, more than 60 thousand students com-
                                                       plete the AlmaOrièntati pathway, accessing either from AlmaDiploma or AlmaLaurea.
                                                       AlmaLaurea and AlmaDiploma have been collaborating for several years with high
                                                       schools, offering specific projects which, besides supporting the AlmaOrièntati path-
                                                       way through cooperation between teachers and Alma experts, offer free placement
                                                       tools in order to make schools increasingly more autonomous in their relations with
                                                       firms in their own geographical area.



                                                          4. AlmaLaurea in the world

                                                         The international value of the AlmaLaurea model and the advantages for Italian and
                                                       foreign graduates and post-graduates was already acknowledged in 2009 as part of
                                                       the study entitled “Do Online Labor Market Intermediaries Matter? The Impact of Alma-
                                                       Laurea on the University-to-Work Transition”, in the volume Studies of Labor Market
                                                       Intermediation by M.F. Bagues and M. Sylos Labini and presented at the National
                                                       Bureau of Economic Research [11]. AlmaLaurea’s international activity [12] is growing

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    Figure 4. The Hen-gear project presentation at the University of Economics in Armenia

every year: in fact, ten years ago the Consortium obtained acknowledgement (and
funding) from the European Union for an experimental project with universities in Po-
land, Hungary, the Netherlands, France and Italy at international level, and to extend
the model, in the next three years, in Morocco, Tunisia, Armenia, Croatia, Bosnia-




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Herzegovina, Serbia, Montenegro (using EU funding)(Figure 4).


   In 2011, the Times Higher Education noted the countless positive aspects of the
AlmaLaurea model with an 8-column article entitled: “Bella figura: Italian model sets
trend with expert fitting service” [13]. Soon after, the EUNIS (European University
Information Systems) recognized in the AlmaLaurea system, in its organizational
model and ability, a best practice in the use of IT systems in the field of higher educa-
tion, awarding the Consortium the first prize of the EUNIS Elite Award for Excellence
[14]. The award had not been assigned for three years. As further proof, in 2014
AlmaLaurea was invited to the fourth EUNIS Rectors’ Conference on the theme “The
New Digital Era in Higher Education”, to present its model to an audience formed by
experts in IT technology applied to higher education in the major European Universi-
ties [15].
   But a successive and even greater acknowledgement came in June 2013, when Al-
maLaurea, invited by the World Bank, successfully presented its model in Washington
(Figure 5). A great award for the whole country, and a commendation of its activities,
representing a global model for the University system worldwide [16 - 17].




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                                                                       Figure 5. Presentation of AlmaLaurea at the World Bank in
                                                                       Washington




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      Biographical notes

   Andrea Camelli taught Social Statistics at the University of Bologna until 2012. His
own research has focused on the long-term analysis of educational processes. He was
a member of the Commission for statistics at UNESCO in Paris. In 1994 he founded the
Inter-University Consortium ALMALAUREA. A model subsequently extended to upper
secondary school with AlmaDiploma and AlmaOrièntati. Thanks to the support of the
European Union, ALMALAUREA is now committed to extending its model in Morocco,
Tunisia, Armenia, Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Serbia, Montenegro. ALMALAUREA
has recently been presented in Washington at the invitation of the World Bank.




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