Social Innovation Working Group (GLIS)
The Social Innovation Working Group (GLIS) has been established to strengthen coordination across the University on social innovation, promoting dialogue and the sharing of information, best practices and opportunities from national and international networks. The working group was launched in December 2025.
Objectives and activities
The working group carries out the following functions:
- Collecting and sharing information from national networks and organisations (e.g. ICSSI, HUB Regione ER) and international ones (e.g. SEED2SCALE) active in this field;
- Sharing calls and calls for proposals to promote participation in projects funded through national and European external funding programmes;
- Internally sharing best practices in terms of definitions, project development and fields of application, with the aim of systematising contacts with key actors at national and European level and encouraging opportunities for exchange with them;
- Supporting the University’s governance in the definition of policies and strategic activities;
- Liaising with the delegates appointed within the Departments, with particular reference to the Third Mission delegates;
- Coordinating with the administrative divisions involved.
Component
Coordinator: Maria Letizia Guerra, Rector’s Delegate for Public Engagement
Academic members
- Magali Fia (Department of Management – DiSA)
- Giuseppe Torluccio (Department of Management – DiSA)
- Giulio Ecchia (Department of Economics – DSE)
- Patrizia Battilani (Department of Economics – DSE)
- Riccardo Prandini (Department of Political and Social Sciences – SPS)
- Giulia Ganugi (Department of Political and Social Sciences – SPS)
- Pierluigi Musarò (Department of Sociology and Business Law – SDE)
- Melissa Moralli (Department of Sociology and Business Law – SDE)
- Letizia Caronia (Department of Education Studies “Giovanni Maria Bertin” – EDU)
- Laura Palareti (Department of Education Studies “Giovanni Maria Bertin” – EDU)
- Annalisa Guarini (Department of Psychology “Renzo Canestrari” – PSI)
- Nicoletta Spinolo (Department of Interpreting and Translation – DIT)
- Valentina Cappi (Department of Interpreting and Translation – DIT)
- Alessia Di Eugenio (Department of Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures – LILEC)
- Federico Picerni (Department of Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures – LILEC)
- Francesca Antonelli (Department of Philosophy – FILO)
- Chiara Loschi (Department of Philosophy – FILO)
- Silvia Ballarè (Department of Classical Philology and Italian Studies – FICLIT)
- Beatrice Seligardi (Department of Classical Philology and Italian Studies – FICLIT)
- Corinna Guerzoni (Department of Cultural Heritage – DBC)
- Sara Fiorentino (Department of Cultural Heritage – DBC)
- Federica Boschi (Department of History and Cultures – DiSCi)
- Matteo Cerri (Department of Biomedical and Neuromotor Sciences – DIBINEM)
- Stefano Ratti (Department of Biomedical and Neuromotor Sciences – DIBINEM)
- Raffaella Casadei (Department for Life Quality Studies – QUVI)
- Stefania Rapino (Department of Chemistry “Giacomo Ciamician” – CHIM)
- Simone D’Agostino (Department of Chemistry “Giacomo Ciamician” – CHIM)
- Rita Mazzoni (Department of Industrial Chemistry “Toso Montanari” – CHIMIND)
- Antonella Samoggia (Department of Agricultural and Food Sciences – DISTAL)
- Roberta Paltrinieri (Department of the Arts – DAR)
- Teresa Carlone (Department of the Arts – DAR)
- Cristina Brasili (Department of Statistical Sciences “Paolo Fortunati” – STAT)
- Livia Elisa Ortensi (Department of Statistical Sciences “Paolo Fortunati” – STAT)
- Catia Prandi (Department of Computer Science and Engineering – DISI)
- Barbara Zambelli (Department of Pharmacy and Biotechnology – FaBiT)
- Igor Diemberger (Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences – DIMEC)
- Marina Tadolini (Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences – DIMEC)
- Michela Mazzetti (Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences – DIMEC)
- Giovanni Romito (Department of Veterinary Medical Sciences – DIMEVET)
- Davide La Torre (Department of Mathematics – MAT)
- Claudia De Luca (Department of Architecture – DA)
Professional staff
- Filippo Sartor (ARIN – Local and Global Engagement Unit)
- Valeria Angela Carpenè (ARIN – Public Engagement Office)
- Maria Grazia Fumo (ARIN – Knowledge Transfer Office – Knowledge Enhancement – Knowledge Transfer Office: Life Sciences, Social Sciences and Humanities, Plant Varieties)
- Alessia Franchini (ARIC – Research Development – Social Sciences and Humanities & Excellent Science)