Next-generation skills

The Capgemini 5G Academy is teaching students essential skills in the field of 5G. By doing so, we are investing in the future workforce – and encouraging the development of ideas that can change the world.

Technology powered by 5G is revolutionizing sectors as diverse as entertainment, manufacturing, and healthcare. At the Capgemini 5G Academy, based in Naples, Italy, and run in collaboration with Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, a group of students has gained hands-on industrial experience of these technologies.

Launched in January 2020, over just seven months 30 undergraduate and graduate students explored the dynamics of digital transformation stimulated by 5G, under the supervision of an expert panel of Capgemini lecturers.

The skills of tomorrow

Equipping the next generation of young people with 5G skills is more essential than ever – and an investment in the future workforce. Indeed, 65% of participants in the academy were later hired by Capgemini to bring their skills into the wider company ecosystem.

Four teams of students, with diverse backgrounds and skillsets, collaborated to research and develop actual 5G solutions that companies would be able to adopt soon after. The four areas of focus were healthcare, media and entertainment, manufacturing, and insurance.

Pushing the boundaries

Pushing the boundaries of healthcare technology to create a better future requires expert contributions from a variety of disciplines. Francesco and Mario Ambrosino, an economist and theoretical physicist by training, were grouped with two biomedical engineers, Martina Giangrieco and Alfonso De Vivo, as well as Giovanni Crisci, another economist.

“They knew us better than we knew ourselves,” said Francesco. “They could tell which other students would complement our abilities and interests, and who would stretch us in new ways.”

Inside stories

Future-shaping projects

Hunting for dragons

Sarah Gonçalves wasn’t always a data engineer. She began her career as an archaeologist, unearthing the secrets of the past in sites across France before retraining as a data engineer. She brings the same curiosity to her new vocation at Capgemini, using artificial intelligence (AI) to uncover what lies beneath the surface.