During Doc and Post Doc activities, I started investing on research in Urban Management and Partecipatory Planning as Tools for Integrated and Sustainable Development. As an Adjunt Professor of Public Management, I was the Scientific Coordinator and/or Director of Master Programmes and Capacity Building Transnational Projects aimed at enforcing innovative managerial models for City Administrators and Managers. On behalf of EUROPEAID and of the Italian Ministry of International Affairs, I coordinated several twinning projects with MENA and Eastern Europe Country addressing sustainable urban development. At the moment, I advice the Ministry of Economy, Department of Cohesion and Development Policies, in the design, ex-ante assessment and coordination of the the National Operational Programme for Metropolitan Areas. In the past URBACT programming period, I was contracted as National Trainer and as “ad hoc” expert within USEACT and MY GENERATION AT WORK Networks. I started supporting to Local Authorities and Key Stakeholders in ‘90s, now being more than 15 years that I’m involved in strategic planning in urban and rural areas. I’m in command of facilitation and visioning techniques and coordinate interactive teamworking and consensus-building for an active engagement of Key Stakeholders on urban issues at Trans-national, National, Regional and City Level (recent topics addressed: Metaplanning, Urban Finance, Social Inclusion, Digital Urban Agenda, Crowd-sourcing for Urban Growth)

As coordinator of several EU projects and Professor and Trainer involved in international Courses and Training Initiatives, I usuallu manage Up-scaling/re-scaling and up-grading of skills, often supported by team-building/management, future visioning and scenario planning in multi-cultural, multi-actor and multi-purpose networks. From the very beginning of my career, I had the opportunity to practice tools and methods applied to exchange and learning processes in transnational cooperation contexts, by adopting PLEF (Personalised Learning and Exchange Frameworks) supported by COPs, Implementation/S Labs, Creativity Hackathons, and Art-Based Inspirational Learning and Exponential Disruptive Training. A personal reflection and investment on Disruptive Training led me, in recent times, to turn-around traditional ways of designing and delivering bench-learning, traditional-way and on-distance as well. With my team, we created an Open-Source interactive tool (Skill Adapter) to profile individual skills, create distributed multi-functional teams and generate individual information and learning paths, by activating inputs from different community-members. This helps both individual success and the adaptation of contents to the different levels of understanding and practices that can be found in transnational partnerships. Visual canvas techniques + gamification are often in my toolkit for wrap-up and take-aways.