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Del Bianco Sabrina

De Narda Jenny

Sanna Andrea

Good morning everybody. My name’s Sabrina Del Bianco.
My friends and I are 3 students of the 5th and final year at ITC “Cecilia Deganutti”, which is a technical commercial school based in Udine.
During the last school-year we and our classmates followed a project called “Simulimpresa” organised by our local Chamber of Commerce with the support of our school teachers. We were the first to experiment this new activity in our school.
As the name “Simulimpresa” suggests, the aim of this activity was the creation of a virtual enterprise.
The project provided us with some theoretical sessions at the Chamber of Commerce and in the end, during the summer, a 2-week working stage in some companies.
For 6 months our school timetable changed, as we attended 1 morning lesson plus 1 afternoon lesson not at school but at the Chamber of Commerce. Our teachers tried, whenever possible, to adapt their school plans to this project’s needs and to share some issues (especially in business and legal subjects) with their colleagues at the Chamber of Commerce.
During these months we were trained by 3 tutors.
In the first period a psychologist helped us to divide into 3 groups and to organise the time we needed to work and develop our virtual enterprise. This person was very useful to us to create 3 balanced groups, in which each component could find his/her role.
After the group formation we were trained by 2 professionals of the trade sector (a business consultant and an expert in commercial law) who helped us to prepare our business plan, which was the final result of the project.
To conclude the activity we had a working experience in some companies operating in the same sector as the virtual enterprise we had created.
My mates will explain to you the different types of virtual enterprises and the working stage experiences.

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Good morning, my name’s Jenny De Narda and I will talk about the three virtual enterprises we created.
For each group there was a coordinator who had to give a role to each group member considering his/her skills and abilities and the roles in each group had to be those of a firm, that is Managing Director, Marketing Manager, Finance Director and so on.
After assigning roles, each group had to decide what kind of firm they wanted to create and then which type of company, legally speaking, it was better to establish.
All the groups decided to create three limited companies, as this form of business was more suitable to our needs.
The first group, which was composed by seven members, developed the plan of a pub called “Aliby Pub”. This pub, located in the town centre, was aimed at people of every age and proposed different kinds of music every week with bands, DJs… The pub didn’t sell only drinks but also snacks, sandwiches, pizzas and had a lot of different offers that could satisfy the customers.
The second firm, “Life Events”, was a company specialised in the organisation of parties, ceremonies, concerts, meetings and any other event which should be celebrated adequately. They were involved in preparing and taking care of everything, from transport to music, from food to entertainments, the bureaucratic part included.
The last group formed a partnership which was engaged in the production and marketing of jewellery and similar. This company had very innovative ideas, the most important was to grant customers that the real diamonds used came from legal markets and not from the black market; the other interesting innovation was that the customers could personalise his/her piece of jewellery with their favourite gem or even drawing or planning his/her own jewel.
After deciding the kind of business they wanted to establish, each group had to start with the drawing up of the constitutive deed and the Statute. Each member of the group had to write his/her curriculum vitae which was then enclosed in the final report, together with a short presentation of partnerships, a visiting card, the firm’s logo, the headed notepaper and finally, the hardest part, that is the business plan.
To draw up the business plan, each group was subdivided into smaller parts, formed by 1 or 2 elements, and every single subgroup was in charge of a specific task such as searching and analysing the market, advertising, talking about the business mission and objectives and the drawing up of the balance sheet.
At the and of the project, two coordinators for each group successfully presented their reports to their school teachers, some parents and some experts of the Chamber of Commerce.

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Good morning, my name’s Andrea Sanna and I’ll tell you about the final phase of this experience: the Working Stage.
At the end of the 4th school year the students of the class 4 Igea of I.T.C. C. Deganutti had a work experience from the 11th to the 23rd of June 2007. Each student was assigned to an enterprise or association and had to work for it to try a job experience but also to improve him/her own skills. The enterprises involved in that project were different and some of the most important ones were the following:

ASSOCIAZIONE DELLE COOPERATIVE FRIULANE
This is an association of all the cooperatives based in F.V.G.. It is in charge of managing all the financial/economical/legal operations that cooperatives have to deal with and it also takes care of their advertising and arranges meetings and events for them.

CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
The chamber of commerce has a lot of tasks to carry out. Generally we can say that this institution is responsible for coordinating all processes that are involved in national and international trade markets like agriculture, commerce, enterprises, trade regulations… It has a lot of different offices and each of them is specialized in dealing with a specific topic like “patents and protests”, “new enterprises”, etc…

SNAIDERO
Snaidero is a worldwide famous enterprise that produces kitchen furniture. It has lots of different lines of products and they are all very high-quality. This enterprise is hugely developed and it is involved in a global trade market.

DANIELI AUTOMATION
Danieli Automation is an enterprise that coordinates all the programs processes that make Danieli’s machinery work. Danieli is a very important business in the engineering industry and it has relations all over the world concerning metal production and supplies.
During this experience each student was followed by a business tutor who taught him what to do; we had also to keep a diary and write everything we did during the stage. We also kept in touch with our school teachers who visited us to know how our work was going on. In the end the teachers and the tutors collected our opinions. The class has generally been pleased to make this experience; some students could benefit from this more than others, however, the class generally enjoyed the experience.

Fine…! Are there any questions about this?
Ok, I’ve finished my talk and if there aren’t any questions I would like to thank the Chamber of Commerce that organized this project and helped us do it in the best way, our business and school tutors that supported us during the experience and our economics teacher, Ms Cotterli, that offered us her help whenever we needed, and in the end, thank you very much for giving us the opportunity to take part in this experience.

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