The Future of Education

Silvia Dell’Acqua holds a Master of Science in “European Politics and Governance” from London School of Economics and Political Science and graduated in “International and Diplomatic Studies” at the University of Trieste (Gorizia Campus).

She started working on eLearning, European education and training policies at Istituto per gli Studi di Politica Internazionale (ISPI) in Milan, then she worked for more than six years in research and communications at the research institute of the Ministry of Education in Florence, at the Italian Lifelong Learning Agency (INDIRE) where she focused on the pedagogical methodology and implementation of Information and Communication Technologies in European and national educational projects (eTwinning).

In 2010 she joined the European University Institute as Outreaching and Networking Coordinator of Consortium for Applied Studies on International Migration (CARIM) then she worked for four years at the Global Governance Programme, firstly setting up the Academy of Global Governance, aimed at high level executive training of diplomats, senior officials and academics, then she became Coordinator of the Research Areas in Climate Governance, Global Economics, Cultural Diversity and Transnational Governance.

Since October 2014 she has joined Vesalius College in Brussels, the international campus of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), where she served as Director of International Programmes, Projects and Outreach. She focused on global academic partnerships, joint and double degrees, study abroad department management, academic marketing and outreach.

From April 2016 she will work at Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna of Pisa as expert in European project design, management and monitoring on the following academic topics: life science, international relations, law and economics.

Silvia is currently Italian expert for Erasmus+ 2014-2020 in higher education, secondary and primary education sectors.

Area/s of Expertise: European Project Management and Monitoring, EU Governance, Transnational Educational Cooperation, EU Project Management, Global Higher Education, Executive Training, Applied Research, eLearning, Internationalization of Research, Institutional Marketing and Networking, Corporate Social Responsibility.