Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia

MISSION

The Marco Biagi Foundation is a higher education foundation set up (pursuant to Act no. 388, 23 December 2000, and the Regulations implementing the Act, in D.P.R. no. 254, 24 May 2001) in December 2002, shortly after the death of Professor Marco Biagi, who was assassinated by the Red Brigades on 19 March 2002.
The Foundation was established at the initiative of Professor Biagi's family and the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, where he taught labour law until his death. The aim of the founders is to honour the memory of Professor Biagi and to promote his innovative thinking and ideas for reform.
The mission of the Foundation is to promote and consolidate relations between higher education and the world of work, with particular reference to the institutions, associations and enterprises in the territory where it operates. For this purpose the Foundation favours the integration in the local and national context of a labour relations culture promoted by advanced university training. Young people and the labour market, a key issue in Marco Biagi's reform proposals, are at the centre of the activities of the Foundation, which serves as in ideal forum for exchanges between the Universities, the institutions, enterprises and associations, in order to achieve a convergence of objectives and interests. The main task of the Foundation, which operates solely in the interests of the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, that provides the institutional framework, consists of promoting and implementing studies and scientific research projects at national and international level in the field of labour relations;promoting master’s programmes, training courses, internships and career guidance programmes, higher education projects, including advanced level apprenticeships, and doctoral research programmes.
As from 2009, with the renewal of the governing bodies, the Foundation intends to maintain a programme of activities in close synergy with the local system of production, making full use of the experience and skills acquired in the first six years of its activities.
In pursuing its institutional mission, the Foundation supports: the postgraduate degree in Labour Relations and the Master's programme for Labour Market Experts at the Faculty of Economics in Modena; in addition it has planned a number of Master's p rogrammes for advanced-level apprenticeships , implemented with the financial support of the Emilia-Romagna Region, and has contributed to the setting up of the Doctoral Research School .