In a world of widespread and rapid change, as the present one, the necessity for a growing diversification of products and available services, and the reduction of the corresponding life cycles require companies to deal with the technological innovation, in its multiple forms, in an appropriate way. The demand for competent professionals, able to join information from heterogeneous disciplines and capable of generating new knowledge for the company is getting more and more evident. A clear proof is the emphasis laid on human resources, which are today recognized as an important successful factor. Companies do nowadays operate within a logical process of strong decision decentralization, in which the proxy requires widespread and shared, as well as interdisciplinary and strongly specialized knowledge.
Training demands are similarly important: on the contrary institutional organizations’ response to such requests remains inadequate, especially because of the necessity for ever changing training courses, whose contents clearly depend on technological scenarios and on the real opportunities offered by the job market.
The role of the TCN Consortium is to contribute to fill the existing or latent gap within the structures and the available activities, regarding the training sector, carefully and promptly orienting the training offer, meeting the specific needs of the industrial and technical worlds. Furthermore it aims at operating in an as much organic way as possible, to limit the obvious consequences of the fragmentation implied by any multidisciplinary knowledge transfer, as well as to use topical methods to the service efficiency advantage.
