Mattia Bottino

Mattia Bottino is a PhD Candidate in Public Governance, Management and Policy at the University of Bologna (Department of Political and Social Sciences). He also partakes in the INCT Participa, as a member of the Núcleo de Democracia e Ação Coletiva at the Centro Brasileiro de Análise e Planejamento (CEBRAP). 

He held visiting positions at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (Mondes Américains) in Paris, France (February-May 2026) and at the Centro de Estudos da Metrópole (Universade de São Paulo and CEBRAP) in São Paulo, Brazil (August-December 2025).

From 2022 to 2025, he worked as Researcher at the Institute for Comparative Federalism of Eurac Research, studying participatory budgeting in Italy, local-level democratic innovations in the Alpine region, and territorial autonomy in Italy and France, with a special focus on Corsica.