The CCUM for Colleges
The Conference of Colleges of Merit (CCUM), represents, promotes, and supports the educational and residential activities of the Colleges through:
- Staff training
- Study and research activities, benchmarking, and analysis of performance indicators of the Colleges
- International networking
- Assistance in the development of university housing
- Operational support for the Ministry of University and Research in recognition and accreditation procedures
- Search in proceedings for recognition and accreditation
At these aim CCUM also organizes events to promote merit and the College brand.
The commitment of the Colleges to orientation
From high school to university
The Colleges offer orientation programs for university life students in the last classes of high schools through personal orientation interviews and events. The programs are integrated with those offered by universities.
From the University to the world of work
Training, support and community are the basis of development of potential for each student, in search of themselves, and their talents to start designing their professional career, during the last years of the university.
College Diploma
The 'College Diploma' is issued by the individual College and certifies the skills acquired during the college experience. In some cases, it certifies the acquisition of specific skills through professional assessment activities carried out by independent certification companies.
The Diploma can be presented as an additional certification in the selection procedures of public administrations as established by the individual calls, and to employers in the private sector.
Study Center
The Study Center organizes initiatives and research aimed at valuing merit, history, training and competence models, lifestyle and the idea of community, present in the University Colleges of Merit.
Among the publications promoted and commissioned by the Study Center:
“The Value of Merit Colleges” Of 2019 by European House of Ambrosetti. The study, aimed at identifying the points of value and distinctiveness of the University Colleges of Merit, aimed to qualify and quantify the contribution they offer to the country, and to make the reality of the Colleges known to students, families and stakeholders.
“The University Colleges of Merit” Of 2025 by IPE. “The text explains in detail the profile of the residential realities examined: through the methodology adopted, the commented and compared data, an exhaustive picture of the University Colleges of Merit and the general and local context in which they operate city by city is presented. Research is a valid tool, basic for internal dialogue and discussion and for the dissemination of the mission and organization of University Colleges, which represent a unique infrastructure for students, their families, for the academic world and the Italian System.”
Progetti
CCUM Academy for Professionals
A permanent training hub aimed at operators of Colleges of Merit aimed at organizing and developing joint, highly qualified initiatives that respond to the challenges common to all Colleges of Merit. The teachers and trainers are experts in the field active in various capacities in training agencies and companies, sometimes designers of the same training courses, professors and/or academic researchers.
Future Direction. Skills and tools for orienting students in the world of work
A highly qualified online training course aimed at College Directors, Career Office and Service Managers, Referents for Training and Cultural Activities of Colleges, professionals from the Orientation and Placement offices of universities, institutions for the right to study, career coaches and other specialists in the sector.
Course end date: May 2025
Internship & Placement opportunities
The initiative Excellence in the Network 2025 organized by the CCUM and the National Federation of Knights of Labor, it is aimed at undergraduates and recent graduates of the 57 Colleges of Merit to access training internships at excellent companies in different sectors.
The objective is to promote a path to bring undergraduates and recent graduates of the Colleges of Merit closer to the world of work and business culture at companies of excellence in the network of the National Federation of Knights of Labor.
Download the list of opportunities here!
For more information:
stageopportunities@cavalieridellavoro.it
academy@collegiuniversitari.it
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