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Managing Board

Francesca Romana Zotta

She founded EuGen in February 2015 in Rome and since then holds the role of President of the association. For six years she worked at the Migration Office of the National Association of Italian Municipalities (ANCI). She gained experience in planning, managing and disseminating EU projects, working for Cittalia in Rome and with the European Projects Association (EPA) in Brussels. She has a degree in Law with a specialization in European policies on human rights and a postgraduate master’s degree in Studies on Migration. She has experience in the planning and management of European projects, in public policies for the reception and integration of migrants in the European Union, in the management of international university consortia for student mobility and in the management of exchanges for the integration of young people migrants.

Marco Buemi

Marco Buemi is Sustainable Development and Social Innovation Manager and EuGen strategic consultant. He works in inclusion and diversity management areas since 2003. He worked 3 years for the Swedish government in the Ministry of Integration and 11 years in Italy as an expert in the presidency of the Council of Ministers coordinating the program management of many European funds. Since 2016 he is an expert on the URBACT program and a specialist in civic crowdfunding and social innovation for the Metropolitan City of Bologna. He collaborates as Facility Manager for the Italian Red Cross and teaches in several Italian and European universities. He has a blog on the online magazine “L’Espresso” entitled “Sustainable Objective” on social, environmental, urban and entrepreneurial issues.

Francesca De Sanctis

Graduated in International Relations at the University of Rome “La Sapienza”, she gained experience in Communications during several work and volunteer experiences abroad, mainly in Central and Eastern Europe. Focused on EU External Relations, she gets in contact with EU funding during a time studying in Brussels, where she deepened her knowledge of European Project Management, plan and dissemination of projects. From February 2020 she’s project assistant for the EuGen team.