Maria Sangiuliano, PhD in Cognitive and Learning Studies, senior gender researcher and trainer, is Research Director and CEO at Smart Venice. Maria has 20 years of working experience in EU funded projects and programs on gender equality.

Her research and work is located at the intersections between social and technological innovation and on diversity sensitive co-design and participatory design methods as tools that make innovation policies and processes more sustainable and inclusive. Maria has been the gender expert in charge of supporting the recently concluded H2020 EQUAL-IST partners in achieving institutional change for gender equality and is currently leading the Smart Venice team in the GE Academy consortium and as a partner in other H2020 projects on institutional change such as CALIPER and CASPER.

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