Alessandra Gallerano;
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Alessandra Gallerano is the Head of the Projects & Mobility Office at the University of Padua, where she is responsible for coordinating
student and staff exchange programmes, international partnerships, joint programmes and EU-funded projects. She has 10+ years of
experience in developing and managing programmes in the field of HE and international cooperation. Before joining the University of Padua,
Alessandra served as a project manager for Sapienza University of Rome, as well as for the Directorate General of Higher Education, Portugal
and the Council of Europe, France. She is frequently a speaker and a trainer at international conferences. Alessandra obtained an Erasmus
Mundus joint Master’s degree in European Studies from the University of Saint Andrews, United Kingdom, Nova University of Lisbon,
Portugal and University of Perpignan, France.
Laura Brandolin;
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Laura serves as International Relations Officer at UNIPD since 2017, mainly charged with the management of Erasmus+ Key Action 2
projects. She was Project Officer for the Capacity Building “ICMED”, coordinated by UNIPD, and she is the contact person for many other
international projects. Laura is also part of UNIPD working group on Virtual Exchange, implementing the institutional strategy on VE.
In 2011, she was Project Assistant at the Executive Agency for Competitiveness and Innovation (EC), dealing with Eco-Innovation projects
for SMEs, and for the following 5 years she was staffed at the Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering (UNIPD),
supporting the management of national and European research projects, and being in charge of the organization of international conferences.
Francesca Helm;
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Francesca Helm is Assistant professor of English language and translation at the Department of Political Science, Law and International
Studies – University of Padua. She teaches in the second-level degree courses on International Politics and Diplomacy, European and
Global Studies. Her research is in the area of Applied Linguistics, particularly in applications of computer-mediated communication (CMC)
and the socio-cultural context of Web 2.0 for language and intercultural learning, the development of multiliteracies and multilingual
higher education. She is particularly interested in dialogic approaches to virtual exchange, tension and conflict resolution, the use of English
as a ‘global language’ and decolonial perspectives and approaches to language education. Her research also regards the ethical
internationalization of higher education, English and multilingualism in higher education, linguistic diversity and social justice, language and education policies.