Italy Partners

Piste is a partnership between universities from different European countries.

The PISTE project is based on a partnership among eight actors with different backgrounds and from four Member States. It involves three academic institutions, one NGO and four municipalities, one for each field, mobilising research to inform actual practices at the local level.

Italy Project Partners

Have a look at our partners and all team members from Italy in this section.

Fermignano

Fermignano (8,200 inhabitants) is an Italian municipality, located in the Marche Region within the Province of Pesaro-Urbino. Since the early 2000s, Fermignano has received a significant number of immigrants and it has been a forerunner in the adoption of immigrant policies within the area, also cooperating with other towns and bodies. Fermignano also promoted the ‘Charter of Mayors on social inclusion in the Euro-Mediterranean area’.

University of Urbino

The University of Urbino “Carlo Bo” is an Italian university with a strong focus on interdisciplinarity. It is located in the Marche Region, in the Renaissance town of Urbino, in an area rich in vibrant small towns. Our team includes researchers within the Department of Economics, Society and Politics (DESP), who come from different disciplinary backgrounds, but have common interest in migration studies.
Team Member
Eduardo Barberis
Eduardo Barberis, coordinator of the project, is associate professor of Sociology at the University of Urbino Carlo Bo, where he lectures on Immigration policy and Comparative Welfare Systems. He has been involved in a number of international and national projects on diversity (e.g. the FP7 project Divercities) and immigration (e.g. the national AMIF projects “No Discrimination Marche”, “Regional Integration Plan Marche”). He (co-)authored some 140 publications. His research interests include the spatial dimension of migration processes, and the multilevel governance of migration and welfare policies.
eduardo.barberis@uniurb.it
Alba Angelucci

Alba Angelucci (1988) is a Research Fellow at the University of Eastern Piedment, where she lectures on various courses, among which Foundaments of Social Policy, Migration and Society and Methods in Social Science. She coordinates the work of the Italian team in PISTE project, in all the Working Packages (research, local networking, implementation and evaluation of the activities). Her research interests include migration and gender studies, urban sociology and welfare policies, which she analyses with an intersectional and interdisciplinary perspective.

alba.angelucci@uniurb.it
Fabio De Blasis
Fabio De Blasis holds a PhD in Global and International Studies from the University of Bologna. He has worked as a researcher and practitioner in West and East Africa, dealing with migration issues and projects. He has also research experiences in Italy on migrant labour and ‘good practices’ of migrant inclusion in the agricultural sector. He is currently a research fellow at the Department of Economy, Society and Politics (DESP) of the University of Urbino. He is working on Work Packages 2 and 3 of the PISTE project focusing on research-related and local networking activities.
fabio.deblasis@uniurb.it
Federico Rossi
Federico Rossi is a Ph.D. student in Global Studies at the University of Urbino. He is working in Work Package 6 of the PISTE project, dealing with dissemination and communication activities, as well as in other supporting tasks for the Italian team. He is also involved as a research collaborator in the ARCO project, aiming to strengthen community relationships in Fermo (Marche Region), and he is researching for his doctoral thesis on immigrant policies of rural municipalities and small cities. Previously, he worked as a trainee at the Italian National Institute of Public Policy Analysis (INAPP).
f.rossi55@campus.uniurb.it
Gül Ince-Beqo

Gül Ince-Beqo holds a co-tutelle PhD in Sociology, Organization and Culture from the Catholic University of Milan and the Regent’s University of London. The main fields of her empirical and theoretical research are migrant integration and diaspora policies, family migration and gender. She is currently a research fellow at the Department of Economy, Society and Politics of the University of Urbino. She is working on Work Packages 2, 3 and 4 of the PISTE project, dealing with fieldwork and research-related activities. She is also involved in the CONTINUGEE Erasmus+ project on the improvement of refugee children and youth education in Europe.

gul.incebeqo@uniurb.it
Silvia Pitzalis
PhD in Anthropology, Silvia Pitzalis is currently a research fellow at the University of Urbino, Carlo Bo and adjunct professor of “Anthropology of Migration Processes” at the University of Bologna. Since 2005, she has been ethnographically conducting research at a national and international level (Italy, Sri Lanka, Niger, Senegal), developing skills in the study of processes of social, urban and political transformation, marginality and inclusion/exclusion; in the production of background analyses for crisis management, in strategic planning and the construction of positive response and capacity building; in the evaluation and analysis of local, national and supranational policies; in the assessment of administrative-bureaucratic and legal ‘rituals’. In the Piste project, she is involved in the qualitative investigation of migrants’ socio-occupational conditions and rights, their perception by institutions and citizenship, their participation/integration/inclusion in the ‘host’ context and their living conditions in small-scale urban contexts.
silvia.pitzalis@uniurb.it
Athanasia Andriopoulou

Athanasia Andriopoulou holds a European Label PhD in “Democracy and Human Rights” from the University of Genoa (Italy), the University of Panteion (Greece), and the University of Lleida (Spain). She is currently the project manager of the PISTE Project, responsible for the coordination, implementation, and management of the project and of the 4 working teams. As a postdoc interdisciplinary researcher (legal-sociology), she also collaborates in the research programming of the Italian team in all WPs and contributes to all of them, in particular WP2 and WP4, that she co-leads with Fabio de Blasis. She is passionate about exploring the legal and interdisciplinary research environment of citizenship. As an Adjunct Professor at the University of Urbino, she teaches “Public Law on Local Security” and she is also a support-lecturer of “Constitutional Law”, “European Constitutional Law”, “Public Law of Local Institutions” and “Institutions of Public Law”. She was previously a research fellow of the University of Copenhagen on a Horizon 2020 project (DEMOS).

athanasia.andriopoulou@uniurb.it