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PCTO

With Law 107/2015, school-to-work alternation became an obligation for all students in the last three years of high school (400 hours for technical institutes, 200 hours for high schools). This obligation is a virtuous opportunity for the university to multiply the incoming orientation activities for our degree courses.
The 2019 Budget Law has, moreover, provided for the renaming of the school-work alternation courses referred to in Legislative Decree No. 77 of 15 April 2005 as "transversal skills and orientation courses" (henceforth referred to as PCTO)

Career opportunities

Market requirements are essentially identifiable in the need for public administrations to equip themselves with personnel qualified in the interpretation and implementation of spatial government policies, with reference to the national and international frameworks that will increasingly influence public development policy decisions. The liberal professions and research sectors would also find considerable benefits from having personnel who have gained valuable theoretical and in-depth experience in the field. The sectors interested in the professionalism of PhDs in Urban Design for the Transition City can thus be identified in:
- Public government and land management administrations;
- Private sector, relating to collaborations with professional firms, study centres and agencies that provide high-profile land analysis, planning and management services;
- Service companies for the design or implementation of territorial information systems, multi-criteria analysis systems, territorial impact assessments of projects, strategic environmental assessment, etc.;
- Public or private research institutes on territorial transformations.
Graduates in Urban Design for the Transitional City may continue their studies by enrolling in two-year Master Degree Courses two-year degree courses and in particular the Master's Degree Course in Spatial Planning [Class LM 48], which constitutes the higher professional level of the Planner's university education, in continuity with the three-year degree course.
Subject to a State Examination, the title of Junior Planner can be obtained and registration in the Order of Architects, Planners, Landscape Architects and Conservators, section B, 'Planning' sector.

Profession

Subject to a qualifying examination, L21 graduates may enter the Professional Register of the Order of Architects, Planners, Landscapers and Conservators, Land Planning sector, in section B.

With the LM48 Master's degree, again subject to a qualifying examination, one can gain access to section A of the same sector.

Both degrees also give access to the state examinations for the professions of Agro-Technician, Surveyor, Agricultural Technician and Industrial Technician, in addition to the qualifications and apprenticeships envisaged by the regulations in force. The apprenticeship period, where prescribed, can be carried out in whole or in part during the course of studies in accordance with procedures established in agreements stipulated between the Orders or Colleges and the Universities (Presidential Decree 328/2001).

The state examination for qualification as a Territorial Planner and Junior Planner (Section A, 'Territorial Planner' sector; Section B, 'Planning' sector) takes place as per the regulations defined by Presidential Decree No. 328/01 and subsequent amendments and additions.

WITH THE THREE-YEAR DEGREE TITLE
For enrolment in the Order of Architects, Planners, Landscapers and Conservators in Section B, "Planning" sector
1) a practical test concerning the technical analysis of the phenomena of the city and the territory or the evaluation of plans and programmes of urban, territorial and environmental transformation
2) a written test concerning the analysis and evaluation of the urban planning compatibility of a public work
3) a second written test consisting of a theme or graphic test in the subjects characterising the training course
4) an oral test on the subjects covered by the written tests and on legislation and professional ethics.

Download of Presidential Decree No. 328 of 5 June 2001

Help Desk

The L21 and LM48 Boards have set up a 'help desk'. Out-of-course students or students wishing to report a problem or dysfunction in the L-21 and LM-48 degree programmes may contact the members of the "contact group" who, while respecting privacy, conduct individual interviews to identify any difficulties encountered and, where possible, initiate initiatives aimed at facilitating the study pathway.

On the basis of individual interviews, the contact point identifies recurrent problems and responds with dedicated initiatives aimed at facilitating the study pathway, working alongside the student and interacting within the Boards of Studies as a spokesperson for the problems identified while respecting the student's privacy.

Are you an out-of-course student? Or, do you have a problem? Do you want to report a dysfunction detected in the activities of the CoS?

Contact the "Help Desk".
Write to Professors Giuseppe Abbate, Maria Sofia Di Fede, Chiara Giubilaro, Flavia Schiavo, Daniele Ronsivalle

Visit the DARCH page on "Learning Tutors"

Alumni

The L21 and LM48 BoDs organise the Alumni Initiative, which aims to promote the employment opportunities of the BoDs through an event that takes place at the same time each year and provides an opportunity for students and graduates of the BoDs to socialise in an informal atmosphere and enter the world of work.
During the event, students meet alumni selected from year to year who, working as planners in Italy or abroad, talk about their experience in the world of the profession. In an informal atmosphere, the students discuss the different working realities, exchange contacts and network.
The organisation of the initiative for the current academic year is currently underway.

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