In 2025, Accademia HModa will organize courses for 200 students, among 11 different training paths delivered in partnership with institutions and several leading companies in the supply chain in Tuscany, Veneto and Marche
On the school orientation side, the “ Storie di Futuro - Made in Italy” training initiative, which involved more than 1,400 students in six Italian regions, home to Italy's main fashion districts, comes to a successful close
Accademia HModa Società Benefit srl today represents a benchmark for the growth of highly qualified talent for the luxury and Made in Italy industry. Since 2023, Accademia HModa has operated as a benefit company, confirming its commitment and investment in a sustainable and responsible future.
Through innovative vocational training paths and orientation programs such as “ Storie di Futuro” in secondary schools, Accademia HModa promotes generational change and supports the link between education and employment, enhancing the craft professions and responding to the sector’s need for sustainability and growth.
Claudio Rovere, founder and president of Hind, commented, “We are proud to see Accademia HModa grow with such a significant impact on the education and employment of new generations of professionals. In a context where craftsmanship and technical skills represent an invaluable heritage for our country, it is crucial to ensure that the excellence of Made in Italy is handed down and enhanced.
The success of Storie di Futuro, with a remarkable involvement of students and teachers, also shows how important it is for the sector to invest also in the growth and training of new generations, working to bring them closer to the sector and thus encourage the generational change necessary to ensure the maintenance of the excellence that has always distinguished Made in Italy in the world.
In addition to meeting the needs of Group companies, investing in the training of specialized figures and inspiring new generations is therefore a strategic choice to preserve and innovate the Italian manufacturing tradition.”
Innovative and Specialized Training Courses
In response to the growing difficulty of companies in finding specialized personnel, Accademia HModa is committed to providing excellent training courses aimed at hiring, integrating theoretical lessons with intensive practical training in teaching laboratories based in the Tuscany, Veneto and Marche regions. To date, the average hiring rate is 75% of trainees, placed mainly in Group companies, as well as in client companies or along the supply chain.
In the last years, Accademia HModa has experienced steady growth in the number of courses offered, the involvement of companies, and the number of students, which by 2025 will reach about 200 participants on 11 distinct training paths through collaboration with most of the HModa Group companies, leaders in various sectors from textiles and apparel to leather goods and footwear. This progress highlights Accademia HModa’s strategic role as a bridge between training and employment, with a focus on enhancing the historical professions of high fashion and districts.
Accademia HModa offers differentiated paths, suitable both for young talents who want to learn the techniques of haute couture, and for those who want to enter the Group’s companies professionally.
To this end, Accademia HModa has developed specific initiatives for each area of Made in Italy, in line with the skills of the different HModa Business Units. Special projects include:
- Ente Formativo Calzaturiero delle Marche (EFC): inaugurated in April 2024, the training center created near Calzaturificio Valmor – an HModa Group shoe factory specializing in the production of men’s sneakers and headquartered and in Civitanova Marche – EFC is recognized by the Marche Region for the training of high-end footwear artisans. Following the success of the first and second editions, the institution will expand its training offerings in 2025, including new courses focused on training new resources for specific stages of the production process. With an intensive program of 600 hours, including 240 hours of in-company internships, EFC enables participants, 15 people per class, to obtain an EQF3 level certificate, with at least 51% of the trainees placed.
- Districts Academy: a training initiative with the sportswear hub of Project – an HModa Group company based in San Tomio di Malo (VI) that specializes in denim and sportswear – and RBS – an HModa Group company based in Lendinara (RO) that produces outerwear – that includes 250 hours of theoretical-practical training to a group of 12 students, with a certificate of participation and certification on safety, designed to gain access to the corporate team.
Storie di Futuro – Made in Italy
The training of HModa and its Accademia is not only aimed at training employment-ready figures, but also at the systemic goal of fostering a deeper generational change in the sector. With the beginning of 2025, in fact, the first edition of “Storie di Future – Made in Italy”, the school orientation course aimed at secondary schools in six Italian regions (Lombardy, Veneto, Emilia-Romagna, Tuscany, Marche and Campania), desired by HModa and Accademia HModa, in collaboration with the certified training provider La Fabbrica, a benefit company and educational communication agency associated with the UNA network, closed with a more than positive balance.
The initiative – launched at the end of 2023 with the aim of introducing very young people to the professions and trades of Made in Italy fashion and orienting them to choose high schools with a job outlet in the sector in order to contribute to generational turnover in a strategic sector for the Italian economy – saw the overall participation of 1,442 middle school students from all over the territory, divided among 27 classroom meetings to discover the opportunities offered by the textile, fashion and accessories supply chain. Of these, 375 students also participated in company visits, touching production processes and meeting professional figures among the industry’s best excellences.
In addition, on the web portal dedicated to the project – www.storiedifuturo.it – 1,605 students tested themselves with a playful-training test, useful for discovering their attitudes. To support teachers, 366 teachers enrolled in the training course on guidance teaching.
Within “ Storie di Futuro,” excellent numbers were also obtained by “Bee a Maker”, a sub-project aimed at a more adult audience (from high school fifth grade students onwards), in which 43 young people were able to participate in meetings organized to get to know HModa companies, thus fostering initial contacts and also taking advantage of the opportunity to leave their CVs.
