text: 3 About us The Vocational Guidance and Work Counselling HELP DESK is a service structure belonging to Bologna s Municipality administration; it was born as the result of a collaboration with Aldini- Valeriani, the first technical high schools in the Bologna area and one of the oldest technical schools in Italy. It was established by the Bologna s Municipality administration in 1844 to create a point of excellence for the development of technical culture. The school administration of Aldini-Valeriani has only recently been handed to the State; however, the Bologna s Municipality administration continues to invest in the promotion of technical culture and provides the Network of Technical Institutes of the metropolitan area of Bologna with services and the experience gained in recent years by Vocational Guidance and Work Counselling HELP DESK. Purpose of the Vocational Guidance and Work Counselling HELP DESK is to co-operate with the schools in order to consolidate and widen an increasingly successful relationship between school, the business/enterprise world and territory. Such a relationship is embodied in the ability to daily offer to students and graduates of the technical sector an array of services and activities whose objective is to qualify the learning career and subsequently promote the shift from school to work or to universitary studies.