Managing Director of the European Fashion Heritage Association.Project coordinator for EFHA in the common European Data Space for Cultural Heritage, the new flagship initiative of the European Commission to accelerate the digital transformation of Europe’s cultural sector, and foster the creation and reuse of content in the cultural and creative sectors. The deployment of the common European data space for cultural heritage is funded under Digital Europe Programme of the European Union.https://pro.europeana.eu/page/common-european-data-space-for-cultural-heritageInnovation Manager in the inDICEs project (January 2020 - March 2023), funded by the EC under the H2020 DT-Governance-13 call, with the aim to empower policy-makers in the Cultural and Creative Industries (CCI) to fully understand the social and economic impact of digitisation in their sectors and address the need for innovative (re)use of cultural assets.https://indices-culture.eu/Project manager and Activity leader in the CrowdHeritage project (September 2018 - February 2020), co-funded by the EC under the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) programme, with the aim to develop an open platform that uses the power of the crowd in order to improve the metadata quality of digital cultural heritage content stored in Europeana, the European portal for cultural heritage, and in the databases of cultural heritage institutions across Europe.https://crowdheritage.euProject manager in the Europeana DSI (Digital Service Infrastructure) Core Service platform, funded by the EC under the CEF programme, coordinating the contribution of the EFHA fashion aggregator in the improvement of data quality in Europeana.https://pro.europeana.eu/project/europeana-dsi-4

Leading strategic projects and coordinating the participation of Istituto Luce Cinecittà in research & innovation international projects. Including but not limited to:Project manager and Activity Leader in the Europeana Subtitled project, co-funded by the EU under the CEF Programme.https://pro.europeana.eu/project/europeana-subtitledProject coordinator of Europeana Media, a CEF Generic Service project (September 2018 - February 2020) with the aim to develop a unified media player service for the Europeana Collections portal.https://pro.europeana.eu/project/europeana-mediaProject manager and Europeana TV pilot coordinator within Europeana Space, EU co-funded project (2014-2017) with the aim to create new opportunities for employment and economic growth within the creative industries sector based on Europe’s rich digital cultural resources.http://www.europeana-space.eu/Project manager and metadata specialist within Mecanex, H2020 research project (2015-2016) with the aim to develop innovative tools for automatic annotation and editorial support of multimedia content, extraction of personalized information and adaption of enriched multimedia content in multi-screen environments.Project manager and Network activities coordinator within EUscreen and EUscreen XL, EU co-funded projects (2009-2016) aimed at the creation of a Best Practice Network of television archives across Europe, for achieving a highly interoperable digitised collection of television material.http://www.euscreen.euProject manager and Community leader for Footage Libraries within Presto4U, EU co-funded project (2013-2014), to promote, raise awareness and improve the adoption of audiovisual preservation research results in the AV domain.Project manager and metadata specialist within the European Film Gateway (EFG), EU co-funded project (2008-2011) for the creation of a European Best Practice Network on Film and Audiovisual Archives.http://www.europeanfilmgateway.eu

Representing the interest of the European Aggregators for Cultural Heritage.

In charge of the project for the creation of the audiovisual database and cataloguing system of the National Film Archive and the subsequent consolidation of the film, photo and video archive and their evolution. Project leader for the realisation of the web front-end of the cataloguing system of the film, photo and video archive and its evolution during the past 10 years.

Technical coordinator of the Europeana Fashion project (2012-2015), co-funded by the EU under the ICT-PSP call and aimed to create a Best Practice Network of fashion archives, libraries and museums across Europe, to aggregate and bring online over 700,000 fashion-related digital objects, ranging from historical dresses to accessories, photographs, posters, drawings, sketches, videos, and fashion catalogues.http://www.europeanafashion.euWP leader within the VIDI-Video, EU FP6 research project (2007-2010) for the creation of an advanced video search engine that allows semantic access to audiovisual content.http://www.vidivideo.eu

Project manager and Work Package leader within HOPE, EU co-funded project (2010-2013) under the ICT-PSP call, aimed to create a Best Practice Network of social history archives, libraries and museums across Europe, for achieving improved access to the vast amount of highly significant but scattered digital collections on social history in Europe. http://www.peoplesheritage.eu

Senior researcher and head of the R&D dept. at the Centre for Methodologies and Applications in Historical & Audiovisual Archives of Consorzio Roma Ricerche.Project manager and IT specialist for national and international research projects in the digital libraries domain.Deputy member of the Italian Organization for Standardization Working Group on Cinematographic Works (UNI GL6).Member of the European Committee for Standardization - Technical Committee (CEN/TC 372) on Cinematographic Works.http://www.filmstandards.org

In charge of the project for the creation of the audiovisual database and cataloguing system of the audiovisual archive of AAMOD. Team leader for the realisation of the web front-end of the cataloguing system of the film and video archive and its evolution.IT specialist within the “MayDayNet 2002” European co-funded project (2001-2002) for the realisation of a web portal on the history of the Labour Day, collecting digital material from different audiovisual archives. Responsible for the technical aspects of the project. Contributing to the web site design and to the audiovisual database design and implementation.