Projects

Selection of recent research projects

• PRIN 2022 Project funded by MUR (Italian Ministry of University and Research): "The subjective well-being of immigrants and natives: Italy in the European context (WELL-MIG)" 

• PNRR PNRR Enlarged Partnership 8-Age-It Age-It: Ageing well in an ageing society: Spoke 1 Sapienza “The demography of ageing. Measures, models, and socio-economic implications”  

• Horizon 2020 Project funded by the EC (grant agreement no. 101016247) COVINFORM: "COronavirus Vulnerabilities and INFOrmation dynamics Research and Modelling" (Team leader for Sapienza)

• French National Research Agency ANR research grant “Montage de Réseaux Scientifiques Européens ou Iternationaux”: "Interdisciplinary Research Network on the Demography of the Arab World-REDEMAR" 

• Visiting Grant funded by InGRID-2 project (H2020 grant agreement no. 730998): "The well-being of forced immigrants in Germany "

• Horizon 2020 Project funded by the EC (grant agreement no. 833870) PERCEPTIONS: "Understand the impact of novel technologies and social media on perceptions of Europe in Countries abroad" (Team leader for Sapienza)

• Italian National Institute of Statistics (ISTAT) Research project “Lo squilibrio dei sessi alla nascita nel contesto migratorio: evidenze in Italia” (2018-2020) (Participant as an expert on the topic)

• Italian National Institute of Statistics (ISTAT) Research project “Misure del benessere per stranieri e migranti” (2018-2019) (Participant as an expert on the topic)

• Cost Action 16111 Funded by the EU: “International Ethnic and Immigrant Minorities' Survey Data Network” (2017-2021): (Member of the Management Committee and leader of WP5)

• “EU-MED relations: cooperation, borders and migration” Sapienza University of Rome - Research grant: 2017-2019, (P.I.)

• “Female genital mutilation prevalence among immigrants in Europe”, research grant of the European Institute for Gender Equality, (EIGE) 2017-18, (Senior quantitative researcher for Italy)

• “Ponti: social and economic inclusion, young people and women, innovation and diasporas” cooperation project funded by the Italian Ministry of the Interior and CIES Onlus, 2017/18, (Scientif. Resp.).

• “Observatory on Children in Difficulty and Abandoned Children of the Rome Municipality”, Rome Municipality and Virtus Onlus research contract, 2014-2017, (Scientif. Resp.)

• SODEMOMED: “Sociological and Demographic Analysis of the Lifestyles transformations in the Mediterranean”, French National Agency for Research-Research Grant ANR: 2013-2017, (Scientif. Resp.)

• Scientific Label for International Conferences: “Workshop: Youth, Migration and Development in the Mediterranean” of the Università Italo-Francese (UIF), Rome 4-6 May 2016, (Scientif. Resp.)

•  “Small-size cities and social cohesion: policies and practices for the social and spatial inclusion of international migrants”, Italian Ministry of Research and Education Research Grant (PRIN), 2013-2016, (Participant)