UNIVERSITY RESEARCH PROJECTS (COORDINATION)
06/2023 – 06/2025 Principal investigator / Coordinator in the PRIN national project: “Women’s inclusion in innovation and entrepreneurship”, award n. 2022TX2T3Y.
04/2023 – 04/2024 Principal investigator in the project “The interplay between regional and university institutional quality and its effect on academic entrepreneurship”, Progetto PRA, University of Foggia
11/2011 – 06/2015 PON art. 13 - 02.00186.341739 “University-Industry Interaction” (InfoPack)
RECENT EXPERT INVOLVEMENTS
2024-2025 – “HORIZON-EIE-2024-CONNECT-02-01: Expanding Academia-Enterprise Collaboration” Role: Member of the Expert Panel.
2024-2027 – “European Innovation Scoreboard (EIS) and the Regional Innovation Scoreboard (RIS) 2024-2027”, EC DG Research & Innovation, with EFIS Centre, Brussels - Role: Policy Analyst.
2018-2021 – Member of the Expert Committee for the evaluation and monitoring of the initiatives promoted by the Emilia-Romagna (Italy) Regional Law 7/2002 with reference to the “Regional Programme for Industrial Research Innovation and Technological Transfer (PRRIITT)”.
2020-2021 - Study on factors impeding the productivity of research and the prospects for open science policies to improve the ability of the Research and Innovation system to transform financial investment in research into valuable outputs such as break-through innovations, EC, DG-RTD, Contract N° 2018/RTD/A2/OP/PP- 07001-2018, RTD/2020/SC/006, Role: Project manager.
2016-2017 - Support activity to the implementation of the 3-year integrated plan ESF-ERDF-FEASR: High competencies in research, technological transfer, and entrepreneurship, ROP-ESF 2014/2020, with ASTER Emilia-Romagna.
2014-2015 - Member of the National Expert Committee for the evaluation of the expressions of interest for the Action Cohesion Plan - Pre-Commercial Procurement, Italian Ministry of University and Research (MIUR).
2013 – 2020 - Italian Ministry of University and Research (MIUR): National Expert in the programming committee of HORIZON2020: “Europe in a Changing World – Inclusive, Innovative and Reflective Societies”.
RECENT RESEARCH REPORTS
2024 - Study on Innovative Practices in Legislation around Emerging Tech, with EFIS Centre, Brussels - Role: Policy Analyst.
2023 - Study supporting the assessment of EU Missions, the review of mission areas and the analysis of EU Mission’s portfolio of instruments and actions, with EFIS Centre, Brussels - Role: Policy Analyst.
2020-2021 - Green Steel for Europe, with CEPS, Brussels - Role: Policy Analyst.
2020-2021 - EU’s global Leadership in Renewables, with CEPS, Brussels - Role: Policy Analyst.
2019 – The World Bank, A Framework for Europe 4.0 Flagship - Analysis of Industry 4.0 and digital transformation based on “enriched” Horizon 2020 data. Role: Researcher.
2018-2019 - Specific Support to Tunisia on the Promotion of Private R&D and on the Research Priorities Methodology, under the Horizon 2020 – European Commission Policy Support Facility (PSF), with Technopolis Group, Brussels – Role: Rapporteur.
2017-2020 - “ONLINE-S3”, a Research and Innovation Action of the Pillar “Science with and for Society”, under the call ISSI-4-2015 On-line mechanisms for knowledge-based policy advice, with EFIS Centre, Brussels - Role: Policy Analyst.
2017 - Portugal: Assessment of the state of play concerning the implementation of the RIS3 and comparison with situation in another Member State, with Technopolis Group. Role: Policy Analyst.
2013-2017 - Regional Innovation Monitor PLUS, EC DG Enterprise and Industry / DG Regional policy, with Technopolis Group. Role: Policy Analyst/Country Representative. Regional Reports: Emilia-Romagna; Puglia (New materials and nanotechnology); Lombardia (Industry 4.0 and smart systems).