Those who intend to start-up a business and those who feel the need to specialise in new market sectors requiring specific skills or registration in rolls, may find effective support in the Chambers training activities. The training courses for aspiring entrepreneurs can be divided into: Training for Young Entrepreneurs, Former Managers, Employed and Self-employed Persons Becoming Entrepreneurs, Basic Training for Aspiring Entrepreneurs and Preparation for Qualification Exams.

Training for young entrepreneurs
This training section aims both at vocational qualification, before placement in a business context, and training, for people who already work in a company. These training activities are carried out by trading associations, which perform multi-disciplinary activities targeting the guidance and management of business functions.
Training programs are complemented with exercises on entrepreneurial ability, propensity to risk and innovation, etc...

Former Managers, Employed and Self-employed Persons Becoming Entrepreneurs
This type of training is mainly carried out through workshops and consultancy provision. It is provided by business schools and a few service companies.

Basic Training for Aspiring Entrepreneurs and Preparation for Qualification Exams
Basic vocational training can be provided by both public and private structures, authorised by the Regional Authorities, to whom detailed information and documents pertaining to the training course venue, premises, teachers and curricula must be produced.

For example, if aspiring entrepreneur intends to carry out an activity envisaging the administration of food and drinks (bar, cafés, pizzerias, restaurants and the like), or intends to manage a reception structure (hotel, guest house, hostel, etc.), he/she has to attend a professional training course, authorised by the Region and organised by the Chamber of Commerce or by any trading association (Confcommercio, Confesercenti), before registering in the relevant Register .

If the aforesaid course is successfully completed, the final exam is considered as qualifying, in that it is equivalent to the conferment of one of the professional requirements needed to be allowed registering.
Other vocational training courses are those devoted to the qualification for the registration in the Register of Factors and Mercantile Agents.

After the introduction of a regulatory reform, the professional requirements to be met in order to business in the catering sector consists in having performed sales activity or worked as employee or collaborator in a commercial firm operating in the catering sector, for at least two years during the last five-year period, or having positively attended a catering vocational course, established or acknowledged by the Regions. Regional Authorities define the organisation procedures, the vocational training course duration and subjects to be dealt with, and guarantee its implementation also through conventions with the Chambers of Commerce and the entrepreneurial organisations operating in this sector.

In order to carry out any brokerage activity, a secondary school degree with a specialisation in business is needed (accounting or business high-school diploma etc.) or, alternatively, a commercial or law university degree. Failing said certificates or qualifications, an exam must be passed at the Chamber of Commerce.

One of the requirements to be met to be allowed passing said exam consists in having worked in brokerage businesses, either as an employee or collaborator, for at least two years. As an alternative to this professional practice, a suitable preparatory course for qualification exams must be attended.
Preparatory courses for brokerage exams are organised by the Regions and, upon authorisation from the Regional Authorities, such courses can also be organised by the Chambers of Commerce. Both trading associations and Chambers of Commerce organise preparatory training courses for people who intend to pass the exams and register in the Roll of Shipbrokers.