23-24 February 2009

speakers

Bulgarelli Aviana

Director of CEDEFOP
Aviana BULGARELLI is the 5th Director of CEDEFOP (the European centre for the development of vocational training) since October 2005.

Aviana Bulgarelli comes from the Italian Ministry of Labour and Social Policies, where she has been Director-General for Guidance and Vocational Training Policies since 2002. During this time, she co-ordinated the Leonardo da Vinci Programme, the European Social Fund Community Support Framework, and other programmes and policies at the national level. Mrs Bulgarelli also represented Italy in meetings of the EU Directors-General for Vocational Education and Training (DGVT) and participated in various EU-level negotiations in the fields of vocational training and cohesion policy.
Her experiences at the forefront of vocational education and training policy-making were preceded by an illustrious career as a researcher in labour market and policy analysis issues. She was Director of Research in the Italian Vocational Education and Training Research Institute (ISFOL) and Director of the Italian Programme and Policy Evaluation Unit of the European Social Fund. She has numerous academic books, international journals articles and conference contributions to her name.
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