History, Challenges and Opportunities of Italy’s Transition to a Regulated Profession

Abstract

Since 2018 conservator-restorer is a regulated profession in Italy. The article gives a brief recount of the steps that led form a completely unregulated sector through a series of legal provisions to the protection of the title and an obligatory study course at EQF 7 to access the profession. The qualiÞcation procedure which signed the passage to a regulated profession is discussed in detail. At the end a short review of the problems of the procedure, as well as the challenges and opportunities of the outcomes is given.