SIMULIMPRESA was born after a deep analysis of the situation for reducing the gap between education/training field and labour market. 
Today in Italy the practice firm concept is present in different areas (administrating field, tourism field and industrial field) and turned to different users typologies, as follows:
young people with a low school attendance, unemployed, graduates from high-schools or universities, workers integrated within innovator process who must up-date their own vocational skills, unemployed women intending to reintegrate into the labour market and students from high-schools.
Therefore the supporting organisations involved in Simulimpresa are:
Vocational Training Centres, Technical Public High-schools, Professional Public High-schools, Real Enterprises, Universities, Chambers of Commerce, Trade-Unions.One of the main points of this methodology is the users autonomy.The declared objective is to allow the participants in practice firms the acquirement of transversal skills, respecting their individual peculiarity.Particularly there are some important elements as:

Let them doing alone
The user, when acquired already the minimum skills to develop his activity, he must do the tasks trying to understand and to solve the problem for reaching the expected results without the help of the trainer.The verifying moment and the corrections will be made after, even if it doesn’t mean avoiding the explanations of contents.

Sense of responsibility
This sense is realized in the documents and in the operations made within each office of the practice firm.Therefore is necessary that each participant must understand the own tasks and be responsible for fulfilling them.The rotation system of the participants is another instrument for increasing the sense of responsibility.

Co-operation
During the work in the practice firm the users must help eachother but they must transfer their competencies to the next who will take their place.

Team working
Often for the office work is necessary to do some activities together with other colleagues. It’s very important to form a group that is working with maximum efficiency and respecting the enterprise decisions. They have to reach a good result for the enterprise.

Proposal capability
Each participant must have the opportunity to express the own opinion regarding the practice firm functioning and to propose improvements. These proposals will be discussed with the other colleagues and after they will make decisions. It’s important taking into account the motivation during these discussions and if necessary, help them to find the solution.

Self-learning
In the practice firm it’s necessary to have materials (on paper, multimedia, videotapes) for consulting different subjects when the users need. The use of these materials must be stimulated, but also the trainers must control it.

Part of the tasks of the Central Office is to offer external services to the practice firms (Banks, Tax Office, Social Insurance, Chamber of Commerce, Clients, Suppliers, Transports, specifically Tourism services, etc) but also to control the quality of the documents coming from the practice firms and to identify possible "formative mistakes". In this way The Central Office reports these "formative mistakes" to the trainers of the practice firms (sending back the document in a yellow envelope) and they can interfere to recuperate the training deficit of the participants.
In setting up new practice firms and co-ordinating existing practice firms, the Central Office offers advice, trainers training and is running support programs for trainers.
To verify the results of the activities, each month there are meetings with the trainers, for setting up standards for the procedures and to reach a high quality for the national and international network.There are many projects presented by the Central Office and approved for improving the quality system within the Italian network.
All these projects have a detailed passage regarding the life cycle of the project:
- the feasibility study ·        
- working process analysis·        
- tasks identification·        
- the organisational behaviour and the necessary skills to manage the working process·        
- to identify the training objectives·        
- project planning and co-ordination ·        
- materials production and internal monitoring activities
All these things led to the training activity and to the results certifications and credit, to the evaluation made on 3 levels: to the beginning, during and after.