Merit-based scholarship.The European Leadership Programme is a Brussels-based project which enhances leadership values and skills through a comprehensive formation experience that is offered to current and emerging leaders. It combines the elements of political training, higher education, community building, social outreach and faith formation.

Administrative and organizational support to the project coordinator of the Ethiopian Catholic Church Social and Development Commision Branch Office of Emdibir Eparchy (ECC-SDCO/Em) in the implementation of ongoing rural development projects aimed at the empowerment of groups of women from different villages of the Eparchy. The scope is to ameliorate the quality of their families lives through a better nutrition achieved thanks to a diversification and intensification of the agricultural production.Main activities and responsibilities: • Drafting of monthly report about the implementation of the projects followed;• Collection of information and photographic material for advertisement and promotion purpose;• Weekly monitoring of the projects’ activities on field;• Communication facilitator among ECC-SDCO/Em offices, partners and other donors included in the projects;• Participation to institutional meetings for different Italian NGOs (Caritas Udine, Mission Onlùs e CeVI);• Organisation of the activities’ timetable for different Italian NGOs, institutional delegation and donors’ missions;• Support in the writing of new projects;• Drafting of accounting reports for different foreign donors: verification of the expenses’ eligibility, registration of the accounting documents (invoice, voucher, receipt, etc).

Support to the Staff of the Embassy.- Consular and Visa Section• Organisation of a humanitarian corridor of refugees to Italy;• Translation of official documents;• Drafting of detailed reports concerning denials of visa for which it has been lodged a complaint;• Drafting of messages for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation;• Drafting of Note Verbale in Italian, English and French; • Attendance to official meeting;• Analysis of paperwork of the Consular and Visa Sections;• Visa delivery;• Printing of passports and Emergency Travel Document;• Assistance in the pre-enrolment procedure of foreign students into Italian Universities;• Recording of consular earnings;• Management of the emails of the Consular and Visa Sections;• Accounting at the visa section;• Assistance in the reception of the users at the Consular and Visa Section (language: Italian, English and French).- Commercial Section• Drafting of messages for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation;• Drafting of Note Verbale in Italian, English and French; • Attendance to official meeting;• Attendance to seminars;• Research of information about Italian companies in Ethiopia;• Research for the realization of the week of the Italian cuisine (Sicilian street food to be held in November);• Assistance in the organisation of a seminar for the promotion of the geographic indications and of the property rights in Ethiopia.- Others• Advice concerning the update of the Embassy website;• Assistance in the organisation of the Italian Republic Festival reception organized at the Embassy.

Main activities and responsibilities: Welcoming, information and support activities for freshmen. Organization of fast friendship opportunities and trip to discover and become confident with the city of Bologna. The tutor is a bridge between Er-go, students and the University of Bologna. I was entitled to find solutions to possible problems and to introduce freshmen to the university life, the Er-go system and the city of Bologna.