Awards & Grants

PRIN 2022: Strengthening TARgeting and Guidance with Actionable and Timely Evidence (STARGATE) for the implementation of the ItalianNational Recovery and Resilience Plan, Principal Investigator, MUR

PRIN PNRR 2022: Policies for Transition: Impact and Governance (POTION), Unit Coordinator, MUR

Best Referee Award for Regional Studies (2022) Regional Studies Association

COVID-19 Rapid Response Fund - How can social science research and expertise help shape the post-COVID-19 world? London School of Economics

Public policies and the cost of social distancing: what works to mitigate the firm-level impact of social distancing during the COVID-19 crisis?, with Riccardo Crescenzi

Best Policy Evaluation Proposal (2016) DG Regio EU Commission

How can the EU Cohesion Policy help persistently under-performing regions?

Regional Studies Association and DG Regio EU Commission Best Conference Paper (2015) at the conference “Challenges for the New Cohesion Policy in 2014-2020: An Academic and Policy Debate”, Riga, February 2015

Epainos Runners up (2013) European Regional Science Association