Mariateresa Veltri

Mariateresa Veltri is Adjunct Professor of European Union Law and Post-doc research fellow at the University of Bologna, where she conducts research in the field of immigration and asylum. Her research project, entitled "Expanding Tertiary Education Pathways For Refugees In Europe: The Added Value Of an EU Reference Framework", aims to identify an innovative link bnetween education-based legal pathways with the EU sponsorship schemes, starting from the experience of the UNI.CO.RE program. She is also part of the Global Community of Practice on Third Country Education Pathways, promoted by the GTF on Third Country Education Pathways and collaborates with diverse Int'l and local NGOs and UN agencies in the field of complementary pathways and community sponsorship.

Her research interests include immigration and asylum policies, legal migration, community sponsorship, border management, social and cultural rights, citizenship and pathways to inclusion, EU Charter of Fundamental Rights, human rights litigation, children's rights, child friendly justice. She is author of papers and editor of scientific blogs in Portuguese, English and Italian Go to the Curriculum vitae