ENAC - Ente Nazionale Canossiano

ENAC (Ente Nazionale Canossiano) is a non-profit organisation with almost 30 years history, which provides education and training, consultancy and vocational guidance, professional re-training and labour market services through its 85 Canossian Schools and VET Centres located in 10 Italian regions.

The main aim of ENAC is to promote personal and professional development enhancing individual competences and attitudes. In particular, within its activities, it favours those interventions towards more disadvantage people, at risk of social/professional marginalization.

Over the years ENAC has developed strong partnerships with several key stakeholders at European, national, regional and local level. Especially in the last years, international activities have played an important role for ENAC that has been involved – as partner or leader – in several EU projects (KA1, KA2, KA3, Jean Monnet and Sport), in other projects using regional funds as well as in incoming activities or projects extra Europe through the Canossian Foundation.

The network of schools, vocational training centres, guidance centres relies on a stable workforce that is able to offer a service of excellence and professionally qualified staff: ENAC and its members involve an annual average of 1500 people. In addition, more than 500 people collaborate in several project activities. On annual average, there are more than 14,000 students and users of ENAC educational, training and work services. In particular, in the field of Vocational Education and Training, we gather 18 VET Centres that provide training, education, counselling and work placement activities to 5,300 users on average per year.