My experience of more than 6 years at the City of Issy-les-Moulineaux (Paris, France), in the domain of EU projects (CIP, H2020 and Interreg NWE) and Smart City helped me to develop an important set of knowledge and know-how around the needs and encountered bottlenecks of Cities (and public authorities) in the definition of living lab projects, particularly at transnational and transborder level. I have a deep knowledge about the various cities initiatives in Europe and to be particularly adapted to support Cities to organize and to deploy exchanges of good practices and to support them to do so. I have been involved in projects in various themes related the URBACT work programmes, particularly on digital transformation (data, citizens’ participation, AI), co-creation of policies with stakeholders (culture, 5G, mobility) and sustainability (waste, smart grids). I have also a great knowledge of R&D in general, due to experiences in academia and IPR, and I adapted this knowledge to Cities. I set up a collaboration with “Major Cities of Europe”, a European non-profit association which promotes the development of new services. It facilitates exchanges of good practices and ideas between cities. This collaboration helps me to be the privileged contact of many municipalities and to collaborate daily with them, also to collect and to help to solve their daily problems in designing their local policies and to set transnational cooperation with other Cities.

I graduated in International Political Sciences in Turin (Italy), with a specialization in European Union economics, and more particularly on the role of the EU funding in the development on peripheral countries. I have a good knowledge on various methodologies to support the exchange of good practices, from the more “classical”, like conferences, events or surveys, to more innovative, such as interactive webinars, workshops and/or focus groups. In this context, I have been working to define new evaluation strategies and tools, mainly based on data and artificial intelligence to improve the existing ones. During my experience in Issy-les-Moulineaux, I managed and developed the relations of the City in the field of the smart and digital services, in particular the exchange of good practices with other cities, in bilateral relations and/or in the framework of French, European and international organizations (OASC, ENOLL, Major Cities of Europe). In this framework, I support the non-profit organization Major Cities of Europe (www.majorcities.eu) to help its Cities to create and/or join consortia of EU projects and to enhance the networking and dissemination capabilities of the MCE network of European Local Governments. In this framework, I support the animation and exchange of good practices between Cities.