Virginia Laconi

• November 2023-: PhD financed by the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (PNRR) on the subject of "Artificial Intelligence, Machine Translation and Inclusive Communication in Public Administration".

• September 2021-September 2023: Master's degree in Specialised Translation at Université Paris Cité (Paris VII) - Master Pro ILTS, Industrie de la Langue et Traduction Spécialisée. French (mother-tongue/first language), English (second language), German (third language). Final mark: 17.13/20 Mention Très bien.

• October 2018-July 2021: Bachelor's degree in Intercultural Language Mediation at Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna (Forlì Campus). French (first language), German (second language), English (third language). Final mark: 109/110.
  

Periods abroad

• May 2025-april 2026: joint thesis supervision at Université Paris Cité

• September 2021-September 2023: Master's degree at Université Paris Cité

• September 2019-January 2020: Erasmus+ at Université Paris Cité (ex Paris-Diderot), L2 Langues Etrangères Appliquées

• June-July 2016: intercultural exchange at Unterhaching, Munich (Germany)

Work experience

• November 2024-may 2025: research internship at the Information and Institutional Communication Service of the Legislative Assembly of the Emilia-Romagna Region

• April 2024-september 2024: research internship at the Equal Opportunities and Anti-Discrimination Office of the Metropolitan City of Turin

• September 2022-September 2023: traineeship as terminologist and translator at Ministère de l'Économie et des Finances, Paris

• October 2020: internship as a translator at LearnAmo

Seminars and conferences

• 19th June 2025: "Technologies de la traduction au service d’un langage administratif inclusif et accessible en Italie et en France" within the Doctoriales event organised by AFFUMT (Association Française des formations universitaires aux métiers de la traduction), at ESIT Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris

• 2nd June 2025: "Traduction intralinguistique, intelligence artificielle et inclusion : le projet “Empowering multilingual inclusive communication” with Rachele Raus (Università di Bologna) and Michela Tonti (Università di Bergamo), at laboratoire ALTAE (ex CLILLAC-ARP), Université Paris Cité. (https://altae.u-pariscite.fr/empowering-multilingual-inclusive-communication/ )

• 26th February 2025: "Présentation de mon mémoire de Master 2 ILTS à Université Paris Cité et application de la méthodologie dans des institutions publiques" at the Master's degree course in Specialized Translation from French into Italian held by Prof. Rachele Raus.

• 14-15th November 2024: conference ‘Artificial Intelligence, Inclusion and Natural Language Processing’ organised within the European research project E-MIMIC (PRIN2022), at the Fondazione Ce.U.B in Bertinoro (FC). Presentation ‘Deep learning and translation for inclusive and accessible language in Public Administration’

• 6th March 2024: "Présentation de mon mémoire de Master 2 ILTS à Université Paris Cité" at the Master's degree course in Specialized Translation from French into Italian held by Prof. Rachele Raus.