Development of the reporting profession in Sicily, financed by contributions of the European Social Fund, directed to training the unemployed 46° Intersteno Congress Fabrizio G. Verruso Praha, 24th of July 2007

Why these two training projects? Because our professional sector feels the need to become qualified with appropriate skills, without neglecting the knowledge of the different techniques for recording speeches 46° Intersteno Congress Fabrizio G. Verruso Praha, 24th of July 2007

Speech recognition softwares are still surprisingly ignored by the usual IT consumers, maybe not so much in their marketing, but rather as to their performances At the same time, shorthand is characterized by its modernity 46° Intersteno Congress Fabrizio G. Verruso Praha, 24th of July 2007

“Scripta manent” and “Verba volant” are the result of a partnership of public and private entities, between EURO Association and the Provincial Administrations of Palermo and Catania, the Regional School Bureau for Sicily, the Unitary Entity of the Italian Secretariat (EUSI), the “Giuseppe Aliprandi” Italian Academy and the “Tirone” reporting society 46° Intersteno Congress Fabrizio G. Verruso Praha, 24th of July 2007

The financial measures, both belonging to axis III of “Human resources” are: Women’s training (measure 3.12) Orientation, information, access and re-integration in the labour world for the reduction of long-term unemployment (measure 3.03) 46° Intersteno Congress Fabrizio G. Verruso Praha, 24th of July 2007

The main steps of the bureaucratic pathway: analytical planning of the initiative signing up of the agreements, with a public notary’s deed, among the project partners 46° Intersteno Congress Fabrizio G. Verruso Praha, 24th of July 2007

The educational projects: 620 hours in total: classes held for 495 hours 13 modules, among which: Fundamentals of shorthand writing, speech recognition, speed (70/80 wpm for shorthand and 100 wpm and over for speech recognition), introduction to the profession, parliamentary and regional law, reporting, IT, English as a foreign language, Professional Orientation. 46° Intersteno Congress Fabrizio G. Verruso Praha, 24th of July 2007

A few statistical data: 68 applications in total: 45 for Palermo and 23 for Catania mean age of candidates: 25 years old 18% with a University Degree 37% students at University 85% never studied shorthand 46° Intersteno Congress Fabrizio G. Verruso Praha, 24th of July 2007

EUSI CERTIFICATES: an added value to the training activity, consisted in one shorthand passage and one reporting by means of speech recognition dictated at an increasing speed, i. e.: shorthand passage: duration 5 minutes, last minute 135 syllables speech recognition passage: duration 3 minutes, last minute 245 syllables, fast transcription (within 30 minutes after the end of the dictation) 46° Intersteno Congress Fabrizio G. Verruso Praha, 24th of July 2007

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Penalties were calculated according to Intersteno regulations for those some typologies of competitions 46° Intersteno Congress Fabrizio G. Verruso Praha, 24th of July 2007

Internship experience took place at the Provincial Administrations for 125 hours trainees were subdivided into working groups all groups had a tutor 46° Intersteno Congress Fabrizio G. Verruso Praha, 24th of July 2007

On the occasion of the next Congress, we hope Intersteno might make an appraisal of the results achieved in the training of future reporters. INTERSTENO SHOULD BECOME THE WORLD LEADER IN THE TRAINING OF PROFESSIONAL REPORTING 46° Intersteno Congress Fabrizio G. Verruso Praha, 24th of July 2007

THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION 46° Intersteno Congress Fabrizio G. Verruso Praha, 24th of July 2007