Francesco Conti

My main task concerns with the designing, developing and managing of the Executive Education Programs and Master Degrees provided by Luiss Business School in the following areas: Lobbying & Communication, Governance, Risk & Compliance and Real Estate. More in detail, the job has to deal with maintaining relationships with faculty and board members in order to shape programmes, to plan and manage budget and to analyze targets. Alongside, coordinating communications and promotional activities represents a substantial part of the whole job.

During this experience I was introduced to the European Project Management and, from the very beginning, directly involved in the writing and management of different projects in which the company was already carrying out. During the initial phase of the internship, I focused on the mechanisms that characterize the Erasmus+ projects: after few months, the reporting and translating activity began my main focus. As my experience and skills started growing, I was asked to take part to the most dynamic phases of few projects, such as kick-off meetings, meetings and mobilities. Sometimes, I happen to help both my colleagues and the participants with quasi-simultaneous translation from Italian to English.

After having successfully completed a Master's Degree in International Functions in 2017, I was proposed by the SIOI Secretariat to become academic tutor in the Master in Communication and Lobbying in the International Relations. During these months, my main task consisted on liaising with students, teaching staff and the Secretariat itself in order to ensure the proper functioning of the Master. Furthermore, I also supported the Secretariat on the occasion of seminars and lectures scheduled for the Academic Year 2017-2018.

Supervised by Counselor Valentina Savastano, the Permanent Mission's responsible for the relationships with the CFS (Committee on World Food Security) and IDLO, my primary job was to assist her in the drafting of short notes and reports following the major meetings and activities of the two above-mentioned organizations. In addition, I also happen to carry out desk research on topics pertinent to the CFS and IDLO workstream and to translate internal documents from Italian to English and (rarely) to French. Alongside this, I also contributed, by adding new contents, to the updating of the Permanent Mission's website.

Mobile Team Italy Project INTERSOS-UNICEF - Intervention in support of Children involved in the migratory process along the central Mediterranean Route. As Field Assistant in a humanitarian aid organization, my job was to interview and map unaccompanied minors in order to provide the organization with a comprehensive view of the phenomenon and, at a later stage, to support mission preparation, draft notes, status report (often under pressure and with tight deadlines) and, lastly, to support the coordination of work and data with the headquarter.

During this internship, I was responsible for the External Relations of the Municipality of Serra De' Conti: more in detail, my job was to liaise with the Municipality's foreign partners (such as Macedonia, Kosovo and France) and sister cities (Frigento, Italy and Knutange, France).