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Organizing committee

Chair: Ferrari L. & Sgaramella T.M.

 


photoIsabella Giannini

Isabella Giannini, Master Degree in Clinical Psychology and postgraduate course diploma in "Vocational guidance at school" at the University of Padova. She is a licensed psychologist and actually she works as editor assistant at the University Centre for Disability Services and Research, Rehabilitation and Inclusion. She is also in charge of supervising statistical data and carrying out personalized reports; she collaborates in organizing national and international workshops and conferences on Disability and Guidance; she carries out support for master and postgraduate courses and collaborates in research projects of the Centre, in the development of assessment tools for the evaluation of the quality and effectiveness of training programs and services for people with disabilities and of the vocational activities for students with disabilities; she collaborates with the Disability Service of the University of Padova for the training of mentors and volunteers of the the National Civil Service.


photoLoredana Carrieri, PhD

Phd. She is adjunct professor of Psychology of Disability and Rehabilitation in the Educational Sciences Degree at the University of Padova and Verona. Member of Italian Society for Vocational Guidance (SIO) and of the Italian Association of Psychology (AIP). She collaborates with University Centre for Research and Services on Disability, Rehabilitation and Inclusion and the LaRIOS (Laboratory for Research and Intervention in Vocational Designing and Career Counseling) at the University of Padova. Her studies and researches concern vocational guidance and disability, in particular the analysis of cognitive and psycho-social factors affecting social and work inclusion of people with disability. Research works, published on national and international journals, concern the construction and adaptation of new instruments for vocational guidance and for the multidimensional assessment of disability, in order to identify supports for increasing quality of life and participation of people with disability.


photoMaria Cristina Ginevra

La.R.I.O.S. Laboratory

PhD on Vocational Sciences, University of Cassino, Italy, collaborates with La.R.I.O.S. Institute (Laboratory of Research and Intervention in Vocational Guidance), University of Padua, Italy. She is currently adjunct professor at the University of Milan-Bicocca, where she teaches Psychology of disability and school inclusion. Research activities concern the fields of school-career counseling and psychology of disability. As regards school-career counseling, research efforts are directed toward the analysis of relationships between career adaptability, problem-solving, career barriers and gender career stereotypes, and also to the development and the Italian adaptation of assessment instruments and training program aiming at increasing choice abilities. As regards psychology of disability, research activities regard the analysis of the factors associated with the social and work inclusion with special attention to career development, sexuality, and school context. She is member of the Italian Society for Vocational Guidance and co-author of 16 national and international publications.


photoSara Santilli

Sara Santilli, psychologist, post graduate degree in Career Counseling at the University of Padova, collaborates with La.R.I.O.S. (Laboratory of Research and Intervention in Vocational Guidance), University of Padova, Italy, in the organization of vocational guidance projects and research concerning disability, career guidance and job placement. Research interest concern the fields of career counseling and disability. As regards school-career counseling, research efforts are directed toward the analysis of relationships between career adaptability, time perspective and quality of life in younger and university students; training programs aiming at increasing choice abilities, the on-line training “Tre Passi Verso il Futuro” (for middle school) e “Prospera” (for hight school). As regards psychology of disability, research activities, in collaboration with University Centre for Research and Services on Disability, Rehabilitation and Inclusion regard the analysis of factors associated with the social and work inclusion with special attention to career development, career adaptability, employer’s attitudes toward people with disability and parents and child’s attitudes toward students with disability. Auditor of the Italian Society for Vocational Guidance (SIO), she is member of the Italian Society of behavior analysis and modification and cognitive behavioral therapy - AIAMC.


photoDiego Boerchi

Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore di Milano

Diego Boerchi, PhD in Social and Developmental Psychology, is Lecturer at the Catholic University of Sacred Heart in Milan where he collaborates with CROSS (Center of Researches on Vocational Guidance and Career Counseling).
He is Aggregate Professor in “Human Resources and Vocational Guidance Psychology” and “Theories and Techniques of Psychological Tests” and teaches “Work and Organizational Psychology” at Master programs in “Labor Consultant” and “Helping relationships in the contexts of National and International vulnerability and poverty”. He is teacher and member of the Scientific Committee at Master program in “Expert in vocational guidance” and he has promoted an Advanced Course in “E-guidance”.
His publications cover psychological tests for vocational guidance (IVP – Work Values Inventory; 3IP – Iconographic Inventory on Professional Interests; QCP – Planning Ability Questionnaire; gender psychometric differences in psychological tests for vocational guidance), career counseling (outplacement; career guidance; assessment centre) and vocational guidance (educational guidance with particular attention to students who have recently immigrated). In the past, he coordinated vocational projects financed by public institutions (Ofelia; Retica), he dealt with the start up of the guidance centre “Città dei Mestieri e delle Professioni” (The City of Jobs and Professions) in Milan, Genoa and Taranto, he was a member of the Scientific Committee of the Project of Labor Ministry on Guidance Services Quality and he collaborated with HR consultancy.


photoMarilena Ascione

Maddalena Ascione graduated  in Economics and Business and obtained a  Master Degree in Psychology of  School and Career Counseling at the University of Padova.
She is a teacher of  Business Economics  in the high school and since 1994 she is interested and works in career counseling. 
She is  a founder member of the Italian Society of Vocational Guidance (SIO) and member of the Executive Board of the Society from 2004.


photoElisa Di Luca

Elisa Di Luca is the director of Disability Support Service of the University of Padova. She coordinates all the supports to students with disabilities enrolled and promotes activities and projects for the inclusion of people with disability in Higher Education. In 2002 she specialized in Assistive Technologies at the University of Trieste and in 2008 completed a Master Degree in Psycho-pedagogy of Disabilities at the University of Pisa. Since 1996 she has been working at the University of Padova; for three years as an International Mobility Officer and since 2001 moved to Disability Support Service transferring the know-how achieved in the disability area and becoming an expert of international mobility of students with disabilities internationally too. She has been involved as project manager and coordinator of Italian and European projects focusing on the areas of disability and education. Recently promoted and coordinated the project “Le lingue accessibili” at University of Padova funded by MIUR as an innovative project within the actions for the implementation of Italian Law 17/99. She often takes part to National and International Conferences as a speaker and is member of University Centre for Research and Services on Disability, Rehabilitation and Inclusion

 


blankJacopo Tarantino

Hogrefe Editor

Graduated in Natural Sciences, has been involved in experimental research and quantitative methods applied to the study of animal behavior and populations. He obtained degrees of specialization in Research Methodology and Wildlife Management and a Master in Organizational Psychosociology. Since 1988 he has being dealing with scientific publishing and worked in Giunti O.S. Organizzazioni Speciali as Publishing Director until May 2012. He has been Director of several Italian journals in the field of psychology: Bollettino di Psicologia, Giornale Italiano di Psicologia dell’Orientamento, Magellano. Rivista per l’Orientamento, Risorse Umane Newsletter, Items. He has gained a great experience in test industry, dealing with the development of psychometric and psychodiagnostic instruments, which he has been promoting in Italy, and he has contributed to the establishment of test publishers in several European countries. Three times he has been President of ETPG - European Test Publishers Group, and he is member of ITC - International Test Since June 2012, he is CEO at Hogrefe Editore, Italian subsidiary of the multinational group Hogrefe.


blankElena Mostardini

Hogrefe Editor

Degree in Labor Law, she has become lawyer.
For seven years she has been responsible for training and guidance activities, relations with the University and schools, for a trade association representing the Small and Medium Enterprises at regional level.
In this role she was also in charge of job placement, she was part of bilateral commissions for regional consultation on the labor market policies and reforms. She has coordinated many projects for training and guidance under Community programs: ADAPT, FORCE, PETRA and Leonardo da Vinci.
For  12 years, she has been responsible for projects and programs of educational and vocational guidance in Giunti O.S. Organizzazioni Speciali Srl.
From August 2012 she works for Hogrefe Editore Srl, as Educational and Vocational guidance Project Development Manager. She has qualified as special registration of the Register of Expert for competences certification in Tuscany.


blankAntonia Moretti

Previously Headmaster, obtained a Master Degree in Psychology of School and Career Counseling at the University of Padova. She has been one of the organizer and a participant to the ORIOR -Learning to choose, a program for high school students realized in collaboration with La.R.I.O.S. and CorTv association and funded by the ESF( European Social Funds) Program 2007-2013. She is member of the SIO executive board.


 


 

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