The no profit CULTURAL ASSOCIATION UMBRIA TRAINING CENTER was founded in 1994 by a team of experts in tourism, vocational training, local sustainable development and human resources management.

OBJECTIVES The aim of the UTC is to foster innovation, development and change in the people and in the organisation through the promotion and implementation of studies, research, vocational training activities, cultural exchanges and social activities, integrated actions for local development, meetings and conferences, publishing. A motivated group of human resource managers, vocational training programme planners and managers, trainers enables to act scientifically and flexibly.

STRATEGY The Umbria Training Center develops projects for companies, public bodies, schools and associations through custom made services thank to a team of national and international experts and consultants and to a network of national and international partner organisations.

The certification of the management system according to the UNI EN ISO 9001:2000 for drawing-up, implementation and management of vocational training, sustainable development and research projects guarantees the results’ quality and the efficiency and the effectiveness of the actions.

SECTORS The Umbria Training Center gained a lot of experience in planning, management and evaluating projects in the framework of EU Initiatives: Leonardo Da Vinci (exchanges, placements, pilot projects and language competencies), Socrates, Youth, Employment NOW, Adapt, Leader II, Equal, Agenda 21. With the support of the ESF, the UTC has carried out vocational training actions aimed to prevent the school abandonment, to upgrade the workers’ skills, to promote the e-learning, to foster the sustainable tourism development, to support the businesses’ setting up, to promote the innovation and competition in tourism businesses. The Umbria Training Center is focused on tourism, hospitality industry, catering and gastronomy, rural tourism, local planning, rural development, biological agriculture.

ITALIAN PARTNERS The Umbria Training Center collaborates with provinces, municipalities, local bodies, universities, enterprises’ consortia, cooks associations, tour operators and vocational training organisations.