Nursery schools for employees, ten companies (from Eni and Intesa) build the largest national network: how it works

Companies on the net to guarantee support and care services to its employees. This is the meaning of Memorandum of understanding « We grow the future » Promoted by a dozen reality in different sectors among the major ones in the country: A2A, Engineering, Eni, Fibercop, Fincantieri, Intesa Sanpaolo, Ita Airways, Leonardo, Open Fiber and Towers Watson Italy. The goal is to develop The largest national Nursery Network to which all workers and workers can access employees of the participating companies.

A year of work

The value of the initiative lies first of all in the networking of companies to create a social value that goes beyond their single perimeter. « A group of companies engaged in parenting issues has worked in the last year to carry out this ambitious project, which aims to offer fundamental support to families, facilitating the conciliation between work and private life and improving the quality of life of the workers’ parents », says a joint note, in which the work behind the scenes is underlined to achieve the result.
A second relevant aspect is the involvement and support of the government. Evident to begin with the involvement of the most important public participation, from Leonardo to Fincantieri. It is no coincidence that the agreement was signed in the presence of the Minister of Labor and Social Policies, Marina Calderone.

A Regime from 2026

The project will have In 2025 an experimental phase and will go out in 2026. The goal is to make a centralized digital platform operational that puts on the net of corporate and private nursery schools to which all the workers and workers of the signatory companies will be able to access. The National Nursery Network will allow the employee of Choose the most appropriate structure for your children among those belonging to the various companies that adhere to the agreement, also in operation of the headquarters of work or residence.

The latest data on the birth rate that fell to 1.18 children per woman make the initiatives that hold together work and self -care and loved ones particularly urgent. Obviously this does not make the interventions for creating places in the nests put in place with the funds of the PNRR less necessary. A dossier on which you should accelerate. But the commitment of these ten large companies shows how The world of production is clear that development and growth need the involvement of women in the context of paid work, outsourcing a part of the free care work.