CURRICULUM VITAE ET STUDIORUM
PERSONAL DATA
• Born in Merano/Meran, Italy
• Researcher at the European Academy of Bolzano/Bozen – Research area Minorities and Autonomies, Institute for Studies on Federalism and Regionalism
• PhD candidate at the University of Innsbruck, Comparative Federalism
• Language skills: German mother tongue, Italian excellent, English fluent, French very good, Spanish, Russian and Finnish basic knowledge.
• Memberships: Euro-regional Association for Comparative Public Law and European Union, Devolution Club, NECE Expert group "Politische Bildung", board member of the NGO Association for Community Colleges
EDUCATION and WORK EXPERIENCE
since 2006
Researcher at the European Academy of Bolzano/Bozen Institute for Studies on Federalism and Regionalism
2005/2006
European Union's Economic and Social Committee (EESC) in Brussels, Social Affairs, Employment and Citizenship Section (SOC), research analyst and administrators' assistant
2005
Master Degree in International Sciences and Diplomacy, Faculty of Political Sciences, University of Turin, Italy, thesis in Comparative Politics&Law: "Cultural diversity and minorities: The legal and political framework in Europe" (344 pp)
2003/2004
Multidisciplinary course on Human Rights, Social Justice and Development, Unicef and the University of Turin, Italy
2003
Visiting researcher at the European Centre for Minority Issues; assistant in the "Minority Ombudsman Project"; proofreader and assistant to publication officer (European Yearbook for Minority Issues)
2002-2005
Cooperation with language schools and translation companies (German teacher and translator)
2001-2002
German teacher at the Istituto Tecnico Commerciale Carlo Levi per corrispondenti in lingue estere, Turin, Italy
2001
Advanced Diploma in European Studies, Jean Monnet Institute, University of Turku, Finland 2000-2001 Erasmus student at the University of Turku, Finland
1998
Degree (Maturadiplom) Linguistic High School "Beda Weber", Meran, Italy
PUBLICATIONS
Books
Auf dem Weg zu asymmetrischem Föderalismus? editor together with F. Palermo, R. Hrbek, C. Zwilling, Nomos, Baden-Baden, 2007
Chapters in Books/Journals
"Wechselwirkungen im Frankreich der drei Ozeane: unterschiedliche Auswege aus der Impasse zwischen Assimilation und Emanzipation", in: Europäisches Zentrum für Föderalismus-Forschung Tübingen, Jahrbuch des Föderalismus 2009, Band 10, Nomos, Baden-Baden, 2009.
"Reinhold Gärtner: Politiklexikon für junge Leute", Rezension in: Pallaver, Kager (Hrsg.): Politika09, Südtiroler Gesellschaft für Politikwissenschaft, Jahrbuch für Politik, Edition Raetia, Bozen, 2009.
"Federal Scaffolds in the Western Balkans", in: The Federalist Debate - Papers on Federalism in Europe and the World, Year XXII, Number 2, July 2009.
"Aperture asimmetriche nel decentramento d'oltremare francese e britannico: considerazioni comparative sulle relazioni con le ´madrepatrie` e l'Unione Europea", in Atti del Convegno "La Costituzione Francese", Bari, 22-23 Maggio, Cedam, Padova, 2009, with S.Parolari.
10 entries in the biografies' section of the dictionary on European Integration (voci: Ralf Dahrendorf, Jürgen Habermas, Erhard Busek, Mario Rainer Lepsius, Gregor Woschnagg, Wolfgang Petritsch, Wilhelm Haferkamp, Monika Wulf-Mathies, Peter Schmidhuber, Alois Pfeiffer) in: "Dizionario dell'Integrazione Europea", Piero Craveri, Umberto Morelli and Gaetano Quagliariello (eds.), Rubbettino Editore, forthcoming.
"South Tyrol's institutionalized linguistic diversity - status quo and challenges" (article), rapporteur report "Linguistic and cultural diversity within the concept of managing diversity", in: Conference Proceedings "Everyday multilingualism" (Eisenstadt, 12-15 June), UNESCO/BMUKK, 2008.
"Bosnien Herzegowinas Spielart des Föderalismus", in: BZ1999, Numero Speciale/Sondernummer 2008, Fondazione Alexander Langer Stifung, Bozen/Bolzano
Co-author of the bilingual Glossary "Politische Bildung - Confusing Converstaion" - the 100 most useful terms in civic education, Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung , Bonn, May 2008
"A challenge for European society", report on the Biennal Conference 2006 of the EESC on a living Europe, in: Periods of Reflection, Annual 2006-7 of the ACC
Cronache Convegni, "Cooperazione inter- e sovracomunale in Tirolo, Alto Adige e Trentino: il caso della pianificazione urbanistica", Dimaro (TN), 13 e 14 ottobre 2006, together with S. Parolari, in: Diritto Pubblico Comparato ed Europeo, 1/2007, Giappichelli Editore, Torino
"National Minorities in the European Union", Policy Paper in ACCent Journal, 2003
"I diritti umani nell'Europa che cambia", GE 185, Autunno 2003
Articles in EURAC science magazine ACADEMIA
"EU-Expansion im Indischen Ozean", ACADEMIA #50, 2/2009
"Zero-Sum Games and the EU perspective: Bosnia&Herzegovina's never-ending transition", ACADEMIA #50, 2/2009
"Bosnien Herzegowina - eine Sisyphusarbeit", ACADEMIA #48, December 2008
"Leben in der Scheinrealität?", article/interview with D. Dedovic at the conference "13 years after Dayton - which future for BiH?" (15-18 May 2008), ACADEMIA #47, July 2008
"The Rise of the Regions", ACADEMIA #43, March 2007
"Very close and comfy - novel ideas for a new Europe", ACADEMIA #41, August 2006
Online articles
"The European Union's emerging security role in the Western Balkans", 12 November 2008, Webzine of the young European federalists, www.thenewfederalist.eu
Scientific translations
"South Tyrol's consociational democracy: between political claim and social reality", in: J.Woelk, F.Palermo, J.Marko, Tolerance through Law: Self Governance and Group Rights in South Tyrol, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, Leiden, 2008
Parts of "Asymmetrie in Föderalstaaten und in der Europäischen Union", in F.Palermo, R.Hrbek, C. Zwilling, E.Alber, Auf dem Weg zu asymmetrischem Föderalismus?, Nomos, Baden-Baden, 2007
LECTURES, PAPERS, TEACHING APPOINTMENTS
"Regionalisation and Separatism - the fundamental difference from a scientific point of view", paper presented at the IRE-Symposium (Institut der Regionen Europas) "Regionalisation - Strenghtening or Subversion of the National State?", Salzburg, 15 September 2009
"The European Social Model - complementary driving force for the European Economic Reform Agenda?", paper presented at the Second Annual Expert Seminar on European Federalism, Ventotene Island, 2-4 September 2009
"Beyond the unitary-federal dichotomy: asymmetry as the rule for the accomodation of cultural diversity?", paper presented at the 21st IPSA World Congress, chair in the special session "The Challenge of Ethno-Nationalist Politics", 12-16 July 2009, Santiago de Chile
"Frauenrechte im Iran: diritti velati, diritti violati?", Einführung und Moderation der Podiumsdiskussion mit der Nobelpreisträgerin Shirin Ebadi und der Journalistin Giuliana Sgrena, 3. Juli 2009, EURAC, Bozen/Bolzano
"Mehr Föderalismus, weniger Autonomie?", Podiumsdiskussion in Innsbruck über die Föderalisierug Italiens und ihre Auswirkungen auf Südtirol, Universität Innsbruck, Südtiroler HochschülerInnenschaft, 14. Mai 2009
"Il caso Alto Adige", introduzione e discussione in occasione del progetto "Rete interregionale/transnazionale tra istituzioni pubbliche di utilizzo delle risorse professionali nella gestione e trasformazione dei conflitti" (Provincia Autonoma di Bolzano), 23 Aprile 2009, EURAC, Bolzano/Bozen.
"Democrazia partecipativa in Europa - verso la settima legislatura del Parlamento europeo", Firenze, 20-21 febbraio 2009, representative of the EURAC-Institute for Studies on Federalism and Regionalism, workshop participant "The reform of the EU-Budget".
Discussant at the conference "Cross-border cooperation in Europe: the perspective of national law and administration", University of Trento, on the topic 'Crossborder Cooperation in the Northern Dimension', Crossplan Project, University of Trento, 3 November 2008
"The CFSP and CFDP after Lisbon - quo vadis?", paper presented at the expert meeting "Which model of federalism in the 21st century Europe?", 30-31 August 2008, Istituto Altiero Spinelli, Ventotene Island, Italy
"The EU's emerging security role in the Western Balkans - case study BiH", paper presented at the 25th Internatioanl Seminar Week, Federalism in Europe and in the World - 2009: A Governments' Agenda for Europe and the World, Altiero Spinelli Institute for Federalist Studies, Ventotene, 31 August - 05 September, Italy
"Diversity management through territorial autonomies - South Tyrol and other best practices", lecturer at the Master Programme `International Conflict Mediation - Peaceworkers´, University of Bologna and Province of Bolzano/Bozen, 5 July 2008
"Institutionalized linguistic diversity in South Tyrol", paper presented at the International Conference "Everday Multilingualism" within the forum "Multilingualism in Diverse Contexts", Rapporteur for the Workshop "Linguistic and cultural diversity within the concept of managing diversity", UNESCO/BMUKK, 12-15 June 2008, Eisenstadt, Austria
"Il processo di regionalizzazione in Francia", guest lecturer at the University of Lecce, Law Faculty, Course Comparative Constitutional Law, 21 May 2008
"Introduction to the Autonomy of South Tyrol" ; lecture for Balkan youth delegations, 15 May, EURAC, in occasion of the initiatives "13 years after Dayton - which future for Bih?"; for detailed information of all Balkan-focused activities in May 2008, please click here
Master on European Integration and Regionalism 2007/2008, Module III Federalism and Regionalism, "Recent transitions towards regionalism in Western Europe: France" and "The Committee of the Regions", 30 January 2008 and 4 February 2008, University of Graz, Austria
International Diversity Summer School, Panel discussant "Diversity in Practice" and lecturer "European Linguistic Diversity Management", University of Vienna, Translation Centre, 09-10 July 2007
"Ethnic consociational democracy - the case study of South Tyrol", lecturer at the Master Programme `International Conflict Mediation - Peaceworkers´, organised by the University of Bologna and the Province of Bolzano, 20 January 2007
ACC-rapporteur at the biannual conference "Living Europe: a challenge for European Society", European Economic and Social Committee, 18 and 19 September 2006, Brussels
"European Models of Governance", "South Tyrol and its Autonomy", "Linguistic diversity in the European Union", lecturer at the "Sport and Cultures in Dialogue" seminar in Kong, Denmark, 22-26 June 2006
Sprachminderheiten in der EU", lecture for the Steinmetzschule, Laas, 13 June 2006
Attendance at the UEF/WFM Joint Conference "Federalism, peace and democracy; the experiences and contributions of the European Union and the African Union", November 2005, Brussels
WORKSHOPS/TRAININGS/CONFERENCES
September 2009
Organisator and moderator of the kick-off meeting "Bosnia Erzegovina: memorie divise, futuro comune?", EURAC, 25 September, in cooperation with the Alexander Langer Foundation (Project "Educazione alla Mondialità").
December 2008
Inaugural Session of the UN Forum of Minority Issues on "Minorities and the Right to Education", 15-16 December.
October 2008
Attendance of the "Training for Trainers" organized by ALDA with the support of CoE and the DG Education and Culture, Bruxelles 01-03 October 2008
August 2008
Participant at the 25th International Seminar Week, Federalism in Europe and in the World - 2009: A Governments' Agenda for Europe and the World, Altiero Spinelli Institute for Federalist Studies, Ventotene, 31 August - 05 September, Italy
June 2008
Participant at the workshop "Föderalismus im Alpenraum 'revised' "- Institut für Föderalismus (IFÖ), IBK, und EURAC-Institut für Föderalismus- und Regionalismusforschung (SFeRe), 19-20 June 2008, Vorarlberg, Austria
May 2008
Organisation of the International Conference "13 years after Dayton - which future for BiH?", the workshop "Introduction to the Autonomy of South Tyrol" and the workshop "Un nuovo discorso per l'Europa", EURAC/CIEMEN/Alexander Langer Foundation, 15 and 17 May 2008, Bolzano/Bozen, Italy
October 2007
Member of the NECE Expert-group; workshop Part II "Confusing Conversation" - Über die Schwierigkeit in einer Fremdsprache über politische Bildung zu sprechen - Kloster Seeon, 04 to 06 October 2007, Germany
August/September 2007
Participant at the seminar week "International Cooperation for Memory", 26 August to 02 September 2007, Srebrenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Fondazione Alexander Langer Stiftung/Tuzlanska Amica
February 2007
Member of the NECE Expert-group; workshop "Confusing Conversation" - Über die Schwierigkeit in einer Fremdsprache über politische Bildung zu sprechen - Schloss Hofen, 15 to 18 February, Bregenz, Austria
November 2005
Stakeholders' Forum "Bridging the gap: how to bring Europe and its citizens closer together", EESC/EC, Brussels, ACC representative and work shop leader of the open space method session "What is at the other end of the bridge?", 7 and 8 November, EESC, Brussels
October 2005
Attendance as EESC research analyst at the High Level Conference "Sustainability of the European social model" Federal Chamber of Labour of Austria (BAK), Brussels, EESC
July 2005
Participant at the project week "Cultures in dialogue", Denmark/Germany, Jarupland Højskole, Deutsche Nachschule Tingleff, Østersøen Højskolen, 17 to 30 July 2005, www.cid2005.org
November 2004
Scholarship for the seminar week "Minority youth and participation in public life", Sinaia, Romania, Minorities of Europe (MOE)
September 2004
Organisation and workshop facilitator at the "Europe of rights college II", Reggello, Toscana, Italy, Association for Community Colleges, 14-23 September 2004
August 2003
Participant at the two weeks project "Europe of rights college I", Reggello, Toscana, Italy, Association for Community Colleges, 2-11 August 2003
March 2003
"Turkey and the EU", 10 days study trip to Istanbul, Turkey, University of Aarhus, Denmark
October 2002
Scholarship for the seminar week "European co-operation: a way of learning about minorities", Wroclaw, Poland, Hatikvah
July 2002
Participant at the two weeks project "Youth 2002" (EU Constitution), Aabenraa, Denmark, Association for Community Colleges
June 1999
Participant at the two weeks "Minority course", Aabenraa, Denmark, Østersøen Højskolen