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Research Transfer, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship

• 1993-1996: Educational partner with Intel Corporation Italia; 1999-2017: educational manager and project lead through ACAB s.r.l., a consultancy company founded to provide educational-technology services linked to Intel.
• Intel Teach to the Future: introduction and long-term management of the programme in Italy, with large-scale teacher involvement and national dissemination.
• Development of low-cost educational computing prototypes, including an Intel Atom-based device conceived for educational adoption and sustainability, and a fully recycled-cardboard desktop prototype based on Intel architecture.
• 2006-present: co-founder of Canalescuola, the first university spin-off/cooperative initiative created with two students and still active in educational technologies, inclusion, and school-oriented dissemination of good practices.
• 2012-present: co-founder of Fublab Coop., the university’s second spin-off/cooperative initiative focused on technology, education, applied experimentation, and inclusive design.
• 2014: presentation at the Scratch Conference hosted at the MIT Media Lab of a redesigned PicoBoard-inspired hardware tool intended to support the development of low-cost inclusive assistive computing solutions.
• 2021-present: co-founder of Fublab s.r.l., created to access specific EU funding lines; subsequent development of the Digital Mediators course for unemployed women in the Autonomous Province of Bolzano, oriented toward educational-social work, digital citizenship, and the harmonious integration of technologies into everyday life.
• 2023-present: member of the team awarded a provincial innovation grant in the Autonomous Province of Bolzano for the development of an innovative laptop prototype for primary school; the project is currently moving from prototyping toward pilot production and school-based experimentation.

Selected Teaching and Training Areas

• Educational technologies, media pedagogy, and digital pedagogy in higher education and teacher education.
• Technologies for inclusion: teaching and applied work since 1998, including initiatives connected with specific learning disorders (DSA) and low-cost inclusive technological solutions.
• STEM and computational-thinking education, with long-standing engagement in programming cultures and hands-on experimentation from the early 1990s onward.
• Training activities for universities, schools, companies, and public bodies; among early examples, development of an Internet course for older adults for the Family Department of the Municipality of Ravenna (1997).
• Supervision of numerous student traineeships and entrepreneurship-adjacent learning paths involving students and graduates in applied educational and technological initiatives.

International and Professional Engagement

• Author of papers presented at six conferences of the Media Ecology Association; ongoing development of a research line on digital ecology as an extension of media ecology.
• Participation from the 1990s onward in numerous academic, EU-funded, private, and mixed research and development projects with partners across Europe and North America / Canada.
• Long-standing participation in the Scratch learning community and multiple Scratch-related conferences hosted at the MIT Media Lab.
• Judge in FIRST LEGO League competitions in Italy since the early editions; judge in robotics competitions connected with the NAO platform.