Apple to open Academy in Naples - Renzi

(ANSA) - Rome, July 7 - Italian Premier Matteo Renzi on his Facebook page Thursday announced that Apple plans to open its new iOS Developer Academy on the San Giovanni a Teduccio campus of the University of Naples Federico II on the city's eastern outskirts.
    "(The Academy) will involve the entire university system, opening the doors to hundreds of students. The Academy courses will be free and there will be scholarships for some of the students," Renzi wrote. "We're very satisfied. Naples and Italy's south are fantastic places for training and investment".
    Renzi recalled that the initial announcement of Naples as the location for Apple's first Developer Academy in Europe came in January when Apple CEO Tim Cook visited Palazzo Chigi.
    "After months of site inspections, Apple has finally chosen its institutional partner and place: the Federico II university campus. My compliments above all to Rector Gaetano Manfredi," Renzi wrote.
    "I'm certain that the local business structure will know how to support and sustain this great opportunity".