Since the ’90, I had a career in studying, defining and implementing employment strategies and services for the labour market, with a focus with towns. More recently I enlarged my area of action to the creation of work opportunities troughs sustainable urban development. In the last 4 years I developed a wide understanding of topics related to integrated and sustainable urban development through: my work in different incubators and hubs of Social Innovation; writing part of ESFR Regional Operative Programmes; managing projects in Fondazione Giacomo Brodolini. In the last 2 years, I operated on projects and methodologies that lead to urban development from a participatory approach, with sharing policies and economy, codesign and contamination. My commitments with Local Administrations lead to designing and implementing policies related to innovation, co-designed community led solutions and services on a wide set of city challenges like: social inclusion, youth employment, economic development, smart and green city, sharing policies. In Rome I founded an Impact Hub and I’m responsible of its international networking and development. In Milan I support FabriQ, a Social Innovation Incubator, dedicated to social enterprises, and MHUMA Milan HUb for MAkers, an R&D laboratory and education centre for the application of digital manufacturing to social innovation. In Carrara I’m scientific coordinator of Art Hub dedicated to the local development through contemporary art economy.

I have been working on exchange and learning processes, mostly at transnational level, for almost 20 years. Mixing my core competences in EU Policies and Funds and Computer Science, I have designed and managed learning processes for groups both off line and on line, on idea generation and project development on issues such as employment, social inclusion, counselling, empowerment of talent, creation of shared value , international cooperation, youth empowerment and leadership, stakeholders engagement, partnership building etc. As project manager, thematic expert, Communication Officier, I have designed and managed learning, community building and stakeholders’ engagement processes both internally and externally in a variety of countries and regions. In my wide experience as trainer I used different methodologies always focused on engagement and empowerment of the participants. Recently I included in my tools webinars, mental maps, innovation labs setting, living labs, hackathons. As trainer for profit and no profit organizations, with NEETs target group, weak labour force, managers, trainers, I design and manage both citizens’ and stakeholders’ engagement processes involving public and private actors at both city and regional level in order to support their social innovation work.