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Press Release -- December 2nd, 2021
Source: Telecom Italia Sparkle
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Sparkle Renews Its Collaboration with Fondazione Ortygia Business School for the Professional Development of University Students in Sicily

The TIM Group’s global operator participates also this year in the “Young Women Empowerment Program” supporting young female talents in economic and scientific disciplines from the universities of Palermo and Catania

Rome, 2 December 2021

Sparkle, the first international service provider in Italy and among the top global operators, adheres also this year to “YEP – Young Women Empowerment Program”, an initiative promoted by the Fondazione Ortygia Business School to support the personal and professional growth of female university students in Southern Italy. As part of the project, Sparkle will accompany the development of young women in Sicily, which has always been a strategic region for the operator.

Born from an idea by ​​Lucrezia Reichlin, President and Co-Founder of Ortygia Business School, the Young Women Empowerment Program intends to offer the new generations useful tools to guide their academic and career choices, develop merit and promote ambition and confidence in the future.

In this context, ten Sicilian students enrolled in master’s degree courses in economic and scientific disciplines at the University of Palermo and the University of Catania will be supported by as many Sparkle managers through individual mentoring sessions during which they, in addition to becoming aware of their potential to propose themselves in the world of work with greater awareness, they will have the opportunity to come into contact with a high-tech working reality with solid roots in the territory.

It is in fact in Sicily that Sparkle has developed, through the two poles of Palermo and Catania, the main internet hub in the Mediterranean, the heart of technological innovation and a gateway for traffic from and to Europe for Africa, the Middle East and Asia. The regional capital hosts the Sicily Hub, a latest generation neutral data center, while the Sicily Lab, a hyper-convergent data center and technological innovation laboratory, is located in Catania.

In the previous edition, the dialogue between students and Sparkle mentors was stimulating and constructive for both parties and continued also at the end of the program, establishing a concrete bridge between the university and the world of work. The experience was presented at the Global Carrier Awards international competition, ranking among the finalists in the “Best Inclusion & Diversity” category. Morevoer, the program was presented at the 4 Weeks 4 Inclusion (4W4I), the inter-company event that from October to November 2021 saw over 200 companies engaged in a four-week consecutive marathon on inclusion. Sparkle’s collaboration with Ortygia Business School was further strengthened with the participation of a young manager in the “Mediterranean Leadership Journey“, the Foundation’s flagship training course aimed at strengthening managerial skills.

We have enthusiastically confirmed our adherence to the YEP program after the positive experience of last year” said Elisabetta Romano, CEO of Sparkle. “The promotion of female talents is a determining factor for the development of the area and we are proud, with our participation, to bring the contribution of the telecommunications industry“.

Joining the YEP project confirms the commitment of Sparkle and of TIM Group to the development of female presence and to the reduction of gender disparity in a traditionally male-dominated technological sector.

About Sparkle

Sparkle is TIM Group’s fully owned Global Operator, first international service provider in Italy and among the top worldwide, with a proprietary backbone of more than 600,000 km of fiber spanning from Europe to Africa, the Americas and Asia. Leveraging its global IP, Data, Cloud, Data Center, Mobile Data and Voice Platforms, Sparkle offers a full range of ICT solutions to Enterprises, Internet Service Providers, OTTs, Media and Content Players, Application Service Providers as well as Fixed and Mobile operators. Its sales force is active worldwide and distributed over 32 countries.

Find out more about Sparkle following its Twitter and LinkedIn profiles or visiting the website tisparkle.com.

About Fondazione Ortygia Business School

Fondazione Ortygia Business School is a higher education school for managers built in the heart of the Mediterranean from an idea of ​​the economist and professor Lucrezia Reichlin. The project consists in the creation of a center of excellence in Syracuse with the aim of creating a bridge between Europe and the Mediterranean that favors the development and economic growth of the countries of the area, acting as a catalyst for business initiatives and economic dialogue between cultures. At the same time, the initiative intends to contribute to the revitalization of southern Europe, and in particular southern Italy, by building skills and commercial networks with the countries of the southern shore of the Mediterranean that facilitate a recovery of Southern and Southern Europe.

Website: ortygiabs.org | Twitter: @OrtygiaBS | Facebook: @OrtygiaBS | LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/school/ortygiabs | Instagram: @ortygiabs

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