Students work with fresh fruit at the Carpigiani Gelato University in the northern town of Anzola dell'Emilia , near Bologna. Every year Carpigiani selects a group of highly motivated Italians ready to leave everything to open gelato shops abroad. Besides funding scholarships for the programme, the company also covers half the price of buying a new Carpigiani machine and will buy it back inside a year if the business folds. Reuters/Stefano Rellandini