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Professor Patrizia Battilani

Patrizia Battilani is Professor of Economic History at the University of Bologna, Italy. Her primary research interests are the history of culture and tourism with applications in the field of participatory tourism planning, enhancement of UNESCO world heritage sites and European cultural routes, as well as business history with a focus on social enterprises. Currently she has the scientific responsibility for the Bologna unit of the Interreg Italy-Croatia Recolor (Reviving and EnhanCing artwOrks and Landscapes Of the adRiatic) and she is part of the research team of RurAllure (Horizon 2020), FabRoutes (Erasmus+), Mistral (Interreg Med). She is also part or the research team for the project  “The tourism during the Civil War and the first Francoism, 1936-1959. State and private companies in the tourist recovery of Spain”, funded by the Spanish Minister of the University.  With Carlos Larrinaga she has recently co-edited the book “Coastal tourism in Southern Europe in the XXth century”, Peter Lang, 2021.

Professor Elisa Baroncini

Elisa Baroncini, PhD in EU Law, is Full Professor of International Law at the University of Bologna. Co-Chair of the ESIL IG on International Economic Law, and Coordinator of the IEL Interest Group of the Italian Society, Elisa teaches at the Bologna School of Law International Law and International Trade and Investment Law. She has been Visiting Professor at the China-EU School of Law, speaker and organizer of many international conferences, Visiting Researcher at the European University Institute. Elisa manages and participates in international and national research projects. Her main fields of research include: the reform process of the WTO dispute settlement mechanism; the relation between free trade and non-trade values; transparency in IEL; the new generation of EU FTAs and their enforcement; the participation of the European Parliament and the Commission in the EU treaty-making power. She has been awarded the Jean Monnet Module Re-Globe (Reforming the Global Economic Governance: The EU for SDGs in International Economic Law) and she is the Coordinator of the UNA Europa Seeds Research Project WHC@50 (Forever Young: Celebrating 50 Years of the World Heritage Convention).

Associate Professor Valentina Orioli

Valentina Orioli, Architect and PhD, she is Associate professor of Urban Planning at the Department of Architecture, and councilor in charge of New mobility, infrastructures, liveability and care of public space, valorization of cultural heritage and Unesco Porticoes, Green footprint project and urban parks. In the previous administrative mandate 2016-21 she was councilor in charge of Urban Planning, Environment, Nomination of I Portici di Bologna to Unesco WHL and deputy mayor since 2020.

Her teaching and research activities are aimed at the knowledge and experimentation of tools for the design and governance of urban and regional transformations, in a perspective that focuses on physical space and its regeneration and draws on the comparison with the disciplinary tradition but also with urban history. She is Vice President of Urban@it, a National center for urban policy studies based at the University of Bologna.

Adjunct Professor Martina Massari

Martina Massari, architect and PhD in Urban Planning. Currently Research Fellow at the architecture Department of the University of Bologna and freelance architect/planner, engaged in cycling mobility planning and design in the Emilia Romagna region. She has been a Research Fellow at the Chair for Regional Building and Urban Planning at the Leibniz University of Hannover.

She is part of the “CPCL Agency”, the “TRACE Team” and the “Collaborative and Adaptive Cities” research groups of the university of Bologna. She has been engaged in the H2020 project ROCK - Regeneration and Optimisation of Cultural Heritage in Creative and Knowledge Cities. She is currently involved the H2020 project GRETA-Green Energy Transition Actions.

Her research and practice interests stemmed from her PhD thesis which discussed the role of “intermediate places” between social innovation practices and urban planning in Bologna. She is Adjunct Professor of Urban Planning and academic tutor of the Course of Advanced Service Design at the University of Bologna.

Associate Professor Giulia Crippa

Giulia Crippa, Associated Professor at the University of Bologna, Department of Cultural Heritage.

She was Full Professor at the University of São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto Campus, in the Information and Documentation Sciences course. She is an accredited doctoral and masters lecturer in the postgraduate programme in Information Sciences at ECA-USP.

She is head of the research group of the CNPq Directory BIBLIOTHECA DISCIPLINATA dedicated to studies in historical bibliography. She is a researcher in the research group of the CNPq PRACTIC - Group for the study of cultural practices and information and communication technologies. She had a post-doctoral internship at CSAC - Centro Studi e Archivio dela Comunicazione (University of Parma, Italy).

She was coordinator of GT3 - Mediation, Dissemination and Appropriation of Information (National Association of Research in Information Science and Librarianship - ANCIB - Brazil) for two terms (2012-2016). From 2012 to date she composes the Board of Directors of the Italian Memory House (CMI) in Ribeirão Preto. From 2017 to 2019 she was editor-in-chief of the journal InCID.