10–12 June 2026PaduaModerator
Coordination of the working group visit within the Erasmus+ project HEQUITY — Building Higher Education Quality InclUsion PaThwaYs
Talks, Projects & Networks
Research lives on connections with the real world.
I am grateful for the invitations to conferences, seminars and public events. They are where this work meets the people who live it: colleagues inside the university, and civil society, associations and students outside it.
Talks and events
8 June 2026PaduaSpeaker
Launch event of the WHY EDI MATTERS project
Presentation: EDI, care and social justice: welcoming refugees and students at risk at the University of Padua
16 April 2026OnlineSpeaker
WHY EDI MATTERS webinar
Presentation: EDI, care and social justice: welcoming refugees and students at risk at the University of Padua
25 March 2026OnlineSpeaker
Seminar “Inclusive education in a world that hurries”
Presentation: Time, care, and refuge. Slowness as an inclusive practice in higher education
12 December 2025PaduaModerator
Focus group with international students within the Erasmus+ project HEQUITY — Building Higher Education Quality InclUsion PaThwaYs
2 December 2025Leipzig University (Germany)Project coordinator
Screening of the documentary Refugee Girls by Leonardo Cinieri Lombroso and roundtable with the director, within the Arqus initiative “ARQUS: an Alliance supporting Refugees' right to a Qualified and Unique Study experience”
12 November 2025University of Minho (Portugal)Project coordinator
Screening of the documentary Refugee Girls by Leonardo Cinieri Lombroso and roundtable with the director, within the Arqus initiative “ARQUS: an Alliance supporting Refugees' right to a Qualified and Unique Study experience”
27 October 2025PaduaModerator
Event “Le radici del futuro: il Progetto Arrupe per l'inclusione universitaria”
20 October 2025University of Granada (Spain)Project coordinator
Cinefórum “Universidad y Refugio”: higher education facing forced displacement. Screening and roundtable with the director Leonardo Cinieri Lombroso, within the Arqus initiative on refugee students
8 October 2025PaduaModerator
Two events titled “Imagine all the people”, organised by the Municipality of Padua
1–3 October 2025RomeSpeaker
International conference “Refugees and Migrants in our Common Home: Mobilizing Academic Communities”
Presentation: Role and responsibility of Italian universities for refugees
23 September 2025Vilnius University (Lithuania)Project coordinator
Screening of the documentary Refugee Girls by Leonardo Cinieri Lombroso and roundtable with the director, within the Arqus initiative “ARQUS: an Alliance supporting Refugees' right to a Qualified and Unique Study experience”
3 June 2025Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (France)Project coordinator
Screening of the documentary Refugee Girls by Leonardo Cinieri Lombroso and roundtable with the director, within the Arqus initiative “ARQUS: an Alliance supporting Refugees' right to a Qualified and Unique Study experience”
29 May 2025Cinema Lux, PaduaSpeaker
Cineforum “Oltre lo schermo: human rights, new technologies and climate change”. Screening of Quando non puoi tornare indietro by Leonardo Cinieri Lombroso and discussion with the director
7 May 2025University of Graz (Austria)Project coordinator
Screening of the documentary Refugee Girls by Leonardo Cinieri Lombroso and roundtable with the director, within the Arqus initiative “ARQUS: an Alliance supporting Refugees' right to a Qualified and Unique Study experience”
10 April 2025University of Wrocław (Poland)Project coordinator
Screening of the documentary Refugee Girls by Leonardo Cinieri Lombroso and roundtable with the director, within the Arqus initiative “ARQUS: an Alliance supporting Refugees' right to a Qualified and Unique Study experience”
7 March 2025Maynooth University (Ireland)Project coordinator
Within MU Social Justice Week; screening of the documentary When You Can't Go Back and roundtable with the director Leonardo Cinieri Lombroso
27 February 2025Ca' Foscari University of Venice (online)Speaker
Teaching session in the professional course “Master in Diritto allo Studio Universitario”
Presentation: Il diritto allo studio universitario per rifugiate/i e students at risk
20–21 February 2025University of TurinSpeaker
International conference “Policies and tools for strengthening the competences of students in a socio-economically precarious situation: the role of universities — models and experiences in comparison”
Presentation: Policies and tools for strengthening the competences of refugees and students at risk: case studies from the University of Padua
20 February 2025University of Innsbruck (online)Speaker
Aurora International Peace Conference “The Role of Higher Education in Peacebuilding”
Presentation: The Role of Higher Education in Peacebuilding: actions of solidarity and peace education from the University of Padua
11–12 December 2024Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona (Spain)Speaker
International conference “Inclusive Comprehensive Internationalisation: enhancing global learning opportunities for ALL students”
Presentation: Increased opportunities for underrepresented students: the inclusion of refugees in the higher education system
11–12 November 2024University of PaduaSpeaker
International conference “Global Civil Society's value and law power facing a crisis of values and law. Ideas and actions to shape an international order of peace”
Presentation: A multi-level governance of resilience: civil society, universities and local governments for the support of refugee students
6 November 2024OnlineSpeaker
Arqus Staff Training Week on Inclusion & Diversity
Presentation: Widening access to university: refugees and students at risk in academia
20 June 2024PaduaModerator
World Refugee Day celebration in the city of Padua, with the Municipality of Padua and the association Popoli Insieme
25 May 2024PaduaModerator
Event “Rotte del cambiamento — Stories from the Change Environment project”, association Popoli Insieme, Centro Antonianum
8 May 2024University for Foreigners of PerugiaSpeaker
Seminar “Coming to Italy to study at university. Entry, stay, study, work”
Presentation: The integration of refugees and students at risk in the university system
January–June 2024PaduaModerator
Project “Di-segni di pace”, association Popoli Insieme: monthly meetings between university students and refugees on peace and human rights
Projects and networks
Alongside my research and consultancy, I take part in European projects, communities of practice and networks that connect universities, NGOs and civil society around access to higher education.
Projects and consultancy
Erasmus+ project
HEQUITY — Building Higher Education Quality InclUsIon PaThwaYs
An Erasmus+ project that strengthens cooperation on inclusion and diversity in European higher education institutions: it builds knowledge on effective DEI policies for migrants at administrative level, and supports capacity building among higher education staff and policy researchers.
My role: I contribute to the project as a member of the association Popoli Insieme.
Erasmus+ project: external consultant
FreeAC
FreeAC works to mitigate the loss of talent and brain drain in Ukraine by strengthening cooperation between Ukrainian and EU higher education institutions, and by protecting the freedom of Ukrainian academia to research, learn, teach and disseminate. It also develops a post-war strategic outlook for an inclusive higher education sector within the European Higher Education Area.
My role: At the request of the University of Graz, I supported the Italian partner CESIE (an NGO based in Palermo), sharing my knowledge of welcoming activities and official procedures for Ukrainian students in Italian universities.
Arqus bottom-up initiative
ARQUS: an Alliance supporting Refugees' right to a Qualified and Unique Study experience
Funded by the ARQUS European University Alliance, the initiative organises a day of reflection on refugee students at each partner university. The universities commit to spreading good practices and to stimulating dialogue on the importance of opening the doors of higher education to those in need.
My role: I coordinate the project and travel to the nine universities of the alliance, presenting my research and leading the debate.
Collaborative resources
MOOC
Education trade unions for refugees and migrants. Module 1 — Introduction: migrants and refugees
A 15-minute MOOC produced within the Erasmus+ project “In and Through Education: Education Trade Unions Supporting the Inclusion of Refugees and Migrants (ETU4REF)”, which strengthens the ability of education trade unions to support the integration of refugees and migrants.
My role: I prepared the module at the request of the Global Campus of Human Rights, together with Prof. Paolo De Stefani.
Booklet
Transforming Futures: Why and How Your Institution Should Champion Refugee Education Pathways
One of the final outputs of the EU AMIF project “EU PASSWORLD”, which widens complementary pathways linked to community sponsorship.
My role: At the request of Pathways International, I reviewed the first draft and contributed comments and quotes to the final version.
Networks and communities of practice
Working groups “Advocacy” and “Research on migrants and refugees”
Refugees and Migrants in Our Common Home: Mobilizing Academic Communities for Action
A global initiative led by Villanova University and its partners to mobilise academic communities around the challenges faced by migrants and refugees.
My role: I am a member of two working groups: Advocacy, and Research on migrants and refugees.
Community of practice
Share's Higher Education for Refugees Collaboration Network (HERCoN)
Coordinated by ICMC Europe, HERCoN is dedicated to creating sustainable pathways for refugees to access higher education across the European Union.
My role: I am part of the community of practice.
Community of practice
Diversity and Inclusion Hub of European University Alliances
An initiative of the European University Alliances: a collaborative platform where the alliances share good practices, exchange experiences and strengthen cooperation.
My role: I am part of the community of practice.
Community of practice
Multicultural and Migration Studies Forum
Coordinated by Patrycja Rozbicka (University of Wrocław), this community of practice fosters collaboration among educators in intercultural communication and migration studies, sharing research insights, teaching practices and innovative approaches.
My role: I am part of the community of practice.
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