• Secretary to the Unit at European Commission
DG Development and Cooperation - EuropeAid - Geographical Coordination Neighbourhood East (Eastern Partnership) Unit
• Duty station: Brussels (Belgium)
• Main duties:
General administrative support;
Document management;
Internal communication within the Directorate-General;
Organisation of meetings;
IT and logistics Support

• Project Officer at the European Students' Union (ESU)
• Duty station: Brussels (Belgium)
• Main duties:
Project Officer for the following projects:
- Student Advancement of Graduates Employability > SAGE (ESU is the leading partner) - EU Lifelong Learning Programme
- Financing the Students' Future > FINST (ESU is the leading partner) - EU Lifelong Learning Programme
- Quest for Quality for Students > QUEST (ESU is the leading partner) - EU Lifelong Learning Programme
- Children as Change Agents in the Science and Society Relationship > SiS Catalyst (ESU is consortium partner) - EU Seventh Framework Programme (FP7)
- Sharing Practice in Enhancing and Assuring Quality > SPEAQ (ESU is consortium partner) - EU Lifelong Learning Programme
- Mapping the Implementation and Application of the Standards and Guidelines for Quality Assurance in the European Higher Education Area > MAP-ESG (ESU is consortium partner) - EU Lifelong Learning Programme
- Use of ICT in Music Teaching and Production > NetSounds (ESU is consortium partner) - EU Lifelong Learning Programme

• EU Policy and Funding Officer at the European Centre for Research in Asia, Africa and Latin America
• Duty station: Brussels (Belgium)
• Main duties:
Policy monitoring, research and project management in the field of European Union funds for research and higher education (Seventh framework programme for research and technological development – FP7, European neighbourhood and partnership instrument - ENPI, other EU programmes). Policy monitoring and research in the field of ICT, Nanosciences, Nanotechnologies, Materials and new Production Technologies

• Freelance contributor to economic publications of the University of Bologna (Italy)
• Duty station: Telecommuting
• Main duties:
Economic and political research with focus on South-Eastern Europe

• Lecturer and Judge for the “Youth Innovation Competition on Global Governance-YICGG 2010” on “Globalization, Localization and Global Governance" organized by Fudan University Shanghai, China
• Duty station: Shanghai (China)
• Main duties:
I gave the lecture "Global Factors – Local Development: Regional Development in the European Union". I supervised the students in their research activity and evaluated their final papers

• Visiting Researcher at Dialogue Europe Research Centre, University of Sofia "St. Kliment Ohridski"
• Duty station: Sofia (Bulgaria)
• Main duties:
I conducted the research "Regional Development in the European Union. The case of Bulgaria". I analysed the role that EU structural funds, foreign direct investment, remittances from abroad and other socio-economic factors have in regional development in Bulgaria

• Project Officer at United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs - United Nations Fellowship Programme
• Duty station: Office for Development Cooperation of the Italian Embassy in Tirana (Albania)
• Main duties:
Conducting research, studies and analyses on the macroeconomic situation of Albania, private sector development, energy and water supply sectors, EU-Albania relationships and other.
I worked also on several topics related to development aid effectiveness (e.g. “EU Fast Track Initiative on Division of Labour”, Capacity Development, Millennium Development Goals, Accra Agenda for Action, etc.).
I prepared supporting administrative documents and Terms of Reference for several missions of Italian senior experts.
I participated in conferences and meetings with Albanian, Italian and international stakeholders (Institutions, Non Governmental Organizations, etc.) and contributed to the preparation of the international Conference “The European Union Instrument for Pre-Accession Assistance and the Italian Development Cooperation in Albania”, held in Tirana on May 26-27

• Trainee in the Communication & Networking Unit at EMA - European Union Medicines Agency
• Duty station: London (UK)
• Main duties:
Support in dealing with internal and external communication of the Agency;
Editing of the CD Rom for the “EMEA-EGA Info Day 2008”;
Drafting of WIN (Work Instructions) for “Requests to Access to Information”;
Updating the EMEA transparency internal web pages on “Access to Information” and “Access to Documents”;
Proofreading of the Italian version of the Summary of the Thirteenth Annual Report of the EMEA.
During my traineeship I attended the following training courses:
EDMS - Electronic Document Management System; Project Management

• Researcher and Coordinator at CIRPET Research Centre - Department of Economics, University of Turin (Italy)
• Duty station: Turin (Italy) and field research in the Balkan countries
• Main duties:
Research on economic development and investment opportunities in a number of transition countries (including field research in Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia Herzegovina and Macedonia).
Project manager for the projects "Observatory on Caucasus" and "Observatory on Central Asia". As research centre’s coordinator, I carried out also clerical duties and supervised many students in writing their graduation thesis. Since 2007 I am Member of the CIRPET Assembly

• Tutor for the Course “Economic Transition, Enlargement Processes and Globalization” of the XIV CEI Summer School "Beyond the Enlargement. The Wider Europe and the New Neighbourhood", organized by the Institute for Central, Eastern and Balkan Europe of the University of Bologna (Italy)
• Duty station: Cervia (Italy)
• Main duties:
I coordinated and supervised all the lectures and activities for 23 students coming from all over Europe. I corrected the students’ final papers

• Supervisor and Lecturer at University of Rome "Tor Vergata" (Italy)
• Duty station: Rome (Italy) and e-researching activity
• Main duties:
E-researching activity and supervision for young researchers for the “Youth Innovation Competition on Global Governance-YICGG 2008” on “Global Governance: Growth and Innovation 2020" organized by UNDP China, Fudan University Shanghai, Rome Tor Vergata University, Politecnico of Turin.
I gave lectures on "FDI in the Western Balkans" and "Economic relations between Italy and China"

• European Union Comenius Programme Assistant at High School "Vasil Levski" (Yambol, Bulgaria)
• Duty station: Yambol (Bulgaria)
• Main duties:
I taught Italian language and culture, informed the students about the European Union and its programmes for young people and cultivated the notion of European citizenship. I studied Bulgarian language

• Tutor for the Course “Economic Transition, Enlargement Processes and Globalization” of the XIII CEI Summer School "Beyond the Enlargement. The Wider Europe and the New Neighbourhood", organized by the Institute for Central, Eastern and Balkan Europe of the University of Bologna (Italy)
• Duty station: Cervia (Italy)
• Main duties:
I gave a lecture on “Foreign direct investment in the Western Balkans” and I coordinated and supervised all the lectures and activities for 23 students coming from the Balkans states, Ukraine and Russia. I corrected the students’ final papers

• Events Assistant at USOC - United States Olympic Committee
• Duty station: Turin (Italy)
• Main duties:
Event services connected with the XX Winter Olympic Games: access control, assistance and information for visitors and media

• EU Funding and Policy Assistant at Eurecna
• Duty station: Bucharest (Romania)
• Main duties:
Project “Follow-up Technical Assistance for the Small and Medium Sized Enterprise Sector” for the Romanian Agency for SMEs and Cooperatives – European Union Phare Programme.
I prepared background documents on several policy issues that were relevant to Romania at that time. In particular, I explored topics related to enterprise development policies (Small and Medium Enterprises). I drafted project proposals for international organizations’ tenders for several countries, including Bosnia Herzegovina, Moldova and Jordan

• Researcher at CIRPET Research Centre - Department of Economics, University of Turin (Italy)
• Duty station: Turin (Italy) and field research
• Main duties:
Research on economic development and investment opportunities in the former Soviet Union and Eastern European countries (including field research in Romania and Bulgaria) and researches on the internationalisation of Italian companies and industrial districts

• Policy Assistant at Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Romania
• Duty station: Bucharest (Romania)
• Main duties:
Collecting data and information, meetings and interviews with Italian investors in Romania and Italian and Romanian agents of private and public bodies, working in the economic and political field

• Radio Speaker at Radio Romania International
• Duty station: Bucharest (Romania)
• Main duties:
Reading texts for the Italian language course

• Assistant to the professor of the Italian language course, Faculty of Political Science, University of Bucharest
• Duty station: Bucharest (Romania)
• Main duties:
Reading and correction of texts translated from Romanian to Italian

Chairman of the session “Croatian Economy: Evolution, Transformation and anti-crisis measures” at the International Seminar “Croatia: a Mediterranean Bridge” and speaker with the presentation “The external dimension of the Croatian economy: Foreign Direct Investments, trade and business opportunities” organized by the Fundación Tres Culturas del Mediterráneo, Seville, Spain (8-9 February 2011)

Interview for the online magazine "Servizio Civile" about my website regarding working and studying opportunities abroad for young people (15 November 2010) - In Italian

Lecturer for the Course “Economic Transition, Enlargement Processes and Globalization” of the XVI CEI Summer School "Beyond the Enlargement. The Wider Europe and the New Neighbourhood", organized by the Institute for Central, Eastern and Balkan Europe of the University of Bologna (Italy).
The Summer School has been organized in the framework of the TAIEX, the Technical Assistance and Information Exchange instrument managed by the Directorate-General Enlargement of the European Commission Cervia (8 September 2010)

Speaker at the EU TEMPUS International Conference in Management and Finance (ICMF2009), University of Tirana, Albania (12-13 March 2009)

Interview for the newspaper "Il Foglio" about Central Asia (5 July 2008) - In Italian

Speaker at the Annual Meeting of ASIAC (Italian Association for the Study of Caucasus and Central Asia) (27-28 June 2008)

Speaker at a meeting on rural development in Romania at Sermig NGO (17 June 2008)

Interview for the University newspaper "Futura" about countries in transition (March 2008) - In Italian

Speaker at the Conference "Economic relations between Italy and the former Yugoslavia", Turin Chamber of Commerce, Italy (28 February 2007)

Representative of CIRPET Research Centre at the Annual Meeting and Business Forum 2006 - European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, London, United Kingdom (21-22 May 2006)

Speaker at the Conference "Development and Competitiveness in Emerging Countries", Turin Chamber of Commerce, Italy (4 March 2005)

Representative of CIRPET Research Centre at the "Expert Meeting on Good Governance for Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises" - UNECE, Geneva, Switzerland (1-2 April 2004)

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