- UniCredit welcomes the third academic year of its award-winning educational platform UniCredit University: The Group-wide training ecosystem helping employees excel in their roles and meet the evolving needs of customers and the market.
- UniCredit University was inaugurated in Italy in 2022 and has delivered over 2 million hours of training in Italy, provided in-person training to over 22,000 colleagues in over 20 training centres across the country, and offers over 70,000 digital courses to colleagues throughout UniCredit's network of European banks.
- UniCredit University Italy offers high-quality professional training to Group employees through an internal faculty of over 280 business colleagues certified as trainers by a leading Business School.
- UniCredit University was awarded the prestigious ABI Prize for Innovation in Banking Services Edition 2024.
UniCredit today inaugurated the third academic year of UniCredit University Italy in Turin, marking another year of the European banking group's revolutionary investment in a cross-continental education platform to support the continuous development of its employees' professional skills.
The University, launched in 2022 as a pilot project in Italy, was subsequently extended and developed for the benefit of all employees in the Group's 13 countries, enabling a tailored approach to learning and developing skills for each business area and corporate function.
The UniCredit University project, part of a Global Learning & Development framework, is building a training model that aims to develop all people's talents through a customised offering, giving employees the tools to succeed and shaping a cutting-edge team within UniCredit that is ready to face the challenges of the future.
UniCredit University is one pillar of a major investment by the Group in education, which is being delivered through various channels: UniCredit University, Banking Academy, and UniCredit Foundation. This investment is driving the development of the communities where the Group operates and putting education at the service of all its key stakeholders, including employees and customers.
UniCredit aims to foster inclusion, entrepreneurship, innovation, and employability in the labour market, in order to spur the development and growth of the European economic bloc in line with the Group's ambition to be the bank for Europe's future.
"We want to invest in our people," says Andrea Orcel, Group CEO at UniCredit. "Unlocking their potential with the highest quality of professional training. Our ambition is to be the bank for Europe's future, and we know we can achieve this by empowering our employees to be their best in their roles and unlocking the enormous value UniCredit has at its core. We are doing this through UniCredit University, an innovative and pioneering initiative in the banking sector."
"Education is a uniquely powerful tool for creating better outcomes. It runs through everything we do at UniCredit. By unlocking performance excellence through UniCredit University and delivering a best-in-class service, we will not only help our clients succeed - we will be able to do more to support educational initiatives in our communities, helping young people realise their ambitions and do great things in Europe."
"Nurturing the talent of each of our colleagues is the main growth lever of UniCredit," says Ilaria Dalla Riva, Chief Administrative Officer of UniCredit in Italy. "UniCredit University Italy, now excitingly entering its third year, is making a significant, positive difference in what each person brings to the Group."
In the two-year period 2022-2023, UniCredit University delivered over 2 million hours of training in Italy, through over 4,500 in-person and virtual classrooms; provided access to in-person training to over 22,000 employees; and guaranteed an average of 45 hours of training per capita. This was supported through an advanced and innovative Group digital learning system that guarantees access to over 70,000 pieces of training content, comprising peer-to-peer learning initiatives focusing on upskilling and reskilling the skills required for the future.
UniCredit University is tangible evidence of our commitment to unleash the potential of our people by supporting them day-to-day in the realisation of their talents and, simultaneously, of our Purpose: to empower communities to progress.
We do this for all our stakeholders:
- Customers and non-customers, through the Banking Academy, which offers training and education on banking, finance, digitalisation, innovation, and much more free of charge to individuals and businesses;
- Our employees, through the UniCredit University.
- The third sector, through the UniCredit Foundation, which works daily to combat school drop-outs, facilitate school-to-work transitions, promote access to university, and support research for young Europeans.
Turin, 16 April 2024
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