PROJECTS FOR SCHOOLS
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Sarlux works with schools to help students gain insights into the world of industry and link their education with first-hand experience.
For more than 50 years, the Saras Group has been promoting education and training activities for young people in schools and maintaining close relations with universities, aimed at fostering knowledge, skills and professional standards that enable young people to promote social development around the themes of employment, sustainability and economic growth, in a region such as Sardinia, which has struggled with issues of unemployment, particularly among young people, and the brain drain of inland areas.
One of the Group’s main objectives is to make entrepreneurial culture more widespread and help people to understand its value and importance.
Projects for schools
University
Postgraduate courses
Scholarships
Seminars
Traineeships
Dissertations
Lectures
High schools and vocational schools
Competitions
Entrepreneurship education for high school students
Conferences
Middle schools
Conferences
Seminars
UNIVERSITY
- Design and develop industrial technologies,through research and educational activities for scientific and technological innovation.
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Support students and build their knowledge and skills,through classroom-based seminars, internships or training schemes and study grants to enable them to pursue new professional opportunities, both with our company and with other industrial players.
Seminars and traineeships
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I believe that this initiative has been of fundamental importance for our education as students and to spur us on to always give our best. I found it very motivating to discuss my dissertation (hydrogen production from renewable sources) with respect to the company’s interests.
Laura, graduate in Chemical Engineering at the University of Cagliari
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The various Saras Group companies have a long tradition of organising seminars aimed mainly at undergraduate and Master’s degree students in mechanical engineering and trainees in various disciplines. The seminars took place in person as long as it was feasible and then digitally after the Covid-19 measures were introduced in 2020.
- “Industrial system organisation and management”.
- #digitalSaras: our digital transformation programme and Asset 4.0 initiatives
- The new frontiers of predictive maintenance
- Asset Management in an industrial operation
- An invaluable resource: water – Management, needs and treatment of water cycles at the Sarlux industrial site
- Project management
- The role of engineers in our organisation
- From University to the labour market
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During the last open day before the onset of the pandemic, Sarlux welcomed to its Industry 4.0 Workshop more than 60 students from the Faculty of Chemical, Mechanical and Electronic Engineering and researchers based in Sardinia, to give them a first-hand view of the #digitalSaras programme. The future engineers attended presentations and Q&A sessions with the members of the Sarlux team, learning more about how augmented reality and big data are changing the world of industry.
Projects and studies
For example: with the Faculty of Chemistry, a project on the application of nanotechnology to distillation processes; with the Faculty of Geology, advanced training courses in the field of remediation and, in collaboration with CRS4, a “top-down cluster” on groundwater modelling and other environmental modelling applications.
Sarlux also collaborates in the Master’s course in Energy Resources Management (SAFE), which is sponsored by the Group’s parent company and covers integrated energy resource management methods with the cooperation of multiple players including public agencies, companies, financial operators, trade associations, media, academia and research. This Master’s course expands considerably professional opportunities in occupations directly or indirectly related to the energy and environmental sector.
Scholarships
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Thanks to the sponsoring companies, the AIDIC award ceremony has now become a successful event, continuing even in the difficult times we are currently experiencing.
Massimiliano Grosso, Department of Mechanical, Chemical and Materials Engineering, University of Cagliari
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HIGH SCHOOLS AND VOCATIONAL SCHOOLS
Access to quality education fosters cultural growth, personal development and well-being: it gives everyone the tools to achieve their full potential. To this end, Saras, through the Group companies, offers a range of projects to meet the schools’ requirements and to contribute to innovative and more effective teaching.
Sarlux has partnered with the schemes for high school students sponsored by the Ministry of Education entitled “A scuola di impresa” (business awareness) and “Competenze Trasversali e Orientamento (PCTO)” (soft skills and orientation paths). We offer orientation seminars to high school students, to introduce them to a complex industrial operation that involves aspects such as workplace safety, human resources, training, management and corporate organisation, to give them a taste of the business world and help them to start thinking about future career options.
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We are a school linked to the needs of the local area: meetings like this with Saras produce valuable input and further motivation to study.
Luciano Sanna, Headmaster of the Industrial Vocational School “Angioy” in Sassari
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The projects linked to the ministerial programme “Soft skills and orientation paths” (PCTO) continued online and, where possible, in person throughout 2021.
Specific seminars were held in 8 classes at 3 vocational schools, in which company engineers and managers covered industrial topics such as safety, environment, energy efficiency, production processes, maintenance processes, ICT and various others, often using simulations to demonstrate the Group’s way of working and pass on what is useful for entering the labour market.
COMPETITIONS
To work on the project, students relied on the store of knowledge and skills provided by Sarlux staff on issues relating to the environment, safety, energy efficiency, and the Industry 4.0 programme, developed to improve the efficiency and output of production processes through new digital technologies. The best project was for the decorative design concept for the shuttle buses carrying Group staff within the Sarlux industrial site.
The RAIn – “Tell me about the Future and Innovation” competition has now seen a number of editions; open to students of the last three years from all the high school in Sardinia, the competition is on the theme of change and new technologies.
The students were asked to present, in a three-minute video, their vision of the future, with a choice of topics including school, culture, health, transport, sustainability, work, energy. The makers of the best videos were rewarded with visits to technology start-ups in Italy and abroad to further develop their ideas and project design capabilities.
MIDDLE SCHOOLS
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The initiatives and activities with Saras fit in perfectly and are complementary to the activities we plan every year; thanks also to the great and constant commitment of the teachers, who take advantage of these very useful opportunities for our students.
Headmaster of the Comprehensive School in Sarroch
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Over the years, theGroup’s commitment to the right to education has led to thecreation of a chemical laboratory, sports facilities (including the provision of defibrillators), and the organisation of seminars, workshops and financial literacy activities.
Particular attention was paid, especially during the peak phase of the pandemic, to providing IT teaching equipment for both the distance learning with the donation of tablets and classroom learning by equipping the school with state-of-the-art computers and printers.
As part of the “Saras for Schools” educational programmes, the Group has reconfirmed its values of social commitment and sustainability by delivering to the approximately 120 students, in the spirit of the circular economy, textbooks on loan for use, which will be then passed down to the following year’s students, unless new editions are adopted.
