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> > September 2011 - ongoing
• Project Officer at the European Students' Union
• Duty station: Brussels (Belgium)
• Main duties:
Project Officer for the following projects:
- Student Advancement of Graduates Employability > SAGE (ESU is the leading partner)
- Financing the Students' Future > FINST (ESU is the leading partner)
- Quest for Quality for Students > QUEST (ESU is the leading partner)
- Children as Change Agents in the Science and Society Relationship > FP7 SiS Catalyst (ESU is consortium partner)
- Sharing Practice in Enhancing and Assuring Quality > SPEAQ (ESU is consortium partner)
- 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)
- Use of ICT in Music Teaching and Production > NetSounds (ESU is consortium partner)
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> > April 2011 - July 2011
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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
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> > October 2010 - February 2011
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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
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> > July 2010
• 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
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> > December 2009 – June 2010
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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
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> > January 2009 - December 2009
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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 in May 2009
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> > December 2005 – September 2008. Since 2007 I am
Member of the CIRPET Assembly
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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
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> > September 2008
• 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
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> > October 2007 – June 2008
• 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
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> > September 2007
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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
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> > February 2006 – March 2006
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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
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> > June 2005 – October 2005
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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
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> > November 2003 – August 2004
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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
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> > January 2004 – March 2004
• 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
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> > July 2002
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Radio Speaker at Radio
Romania International
• Duty station: Bucharest (Romania)
• Main duties:
Reading texts for the Italian language course
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> > October 2001 – June 2002
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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
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Lectures, Conferences, Interviews
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 (February 2011)
Interview for the online magazine "Servizio Civile" about my website regarding working and studying opportunities abroad for young people (November 2010) - In Italian
Speaker at the EU TEMPUS International Conference in Management and Finance (ICMF2009), University of Tirana, Albania (March 2009)
Interview for the newspaper "Il Foglio" about Central Asia (July 2008) - In Italian
Speaker at the Annual Meeting of ASIAC (Italian
Association for the Study of Caucasus and Central Asia) (June 2008)
Speaker at a meeting on rural development in Romania at Sermig NGO (June 2008)
Interview for the University newspaper "Futura" about countries in transition (March 2008) - In Italian
Representative of CIRPET Research Centre at the Annual Meeting and Business Forum 2006 - European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, London, United Kingdom (May 2006)
Speaker at the Conference "Economic relations between Italy and the former Yugoslavia", Turin Chamber of Commerce, Italy (February 2007)
Speaker at the Conference "Development and Competitiveness in Emerging Countries", Turin Chamber of Commerce, Italy (March 2005)
Representative of CIRPET Research Centre at the "Expert Meeting on Good Governance for Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises" - UNECE, Geneva, Switzerland (April 2004)
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