People

Martin Mulder -2 posts

Former department head and professor of Education and Competence Studies, Wageningen University, the Netherlands. He specialized in competence theory and research. He did research in the field of human resource development, vocational and professional education and higher education. He received the 2016 European Vocational Education and Training Research Award by the European Commission.

Marzia Bizzaro -2 posts

Marzia Bizzaro, PhD, Psicologa e Pedagogista esperta in disturbi specifici dell’apprendimento. Docente di scuola secondaria presso ISISS Don Milani di Tradate (VA) e consulente per l’area disabilità presso Cometa formazione. inoltre svolge attività didattica presso l’Università di Milano Bicocca per i corsi di specializzazione per il sostegno agli alunni con disabilità e in numerosi Master universitari di II livello su temi di valutazione e diagnosi dei disturbi specifici dell’apprendimento. E’ autrice di numerosi volumi sui processi cognitivi nell’apprendimento con particolare riferimento all’ambito delle abilità numeriche, del calcolo e della soluzione dei problemi. Tra le sue principali linee di ricerca la valutazione dei disturbi dell’apprendimento in matematica, la soluzione dei problemi aritmetici e i processi di comprensione.

Monica E. Mincu -2 posts

Dr Mincu is an established scholar and well known for her work in Italy and beyond. She engaged with teacher education from an improvement perspective, in her capacity as counsellor for a large NGO in Italy – Fondazione per la Scuola/Compagnia di San Paolo, as well as through her scholarship that reached key international audiences (e.g. the BERA and RSA contribution to Research and the Teaching Profession, her scholarship related to teacher education for the WCCES, the World Council of Comparative Education Societies in connection with colleagues from around the world).

Natalia Kaszkowiak -2 posts

She got her degree in the faculty of education at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan (Poland). She is closely related to career counseling for ten years. She works with students as well as job-seekers and unemployed persons. Currently, she works at the Career Counseling Center for Youth in Poznan, where she supports the students in their career development. Her main responsibilities are individual work with pupils, giving seminars and training.

Nicolò Piazza

Paolo Nardi -27 posts

Dr Paolo Nardi is International Affairs and Research Officer at Cometa VET Centre (Italy) and Coordinator of the UNESCO-UNEVOC Centre for Italy. Co-opted Board Member of VETNET (association of researchers in VET). Fellow at PlusValue. Board Member of the Journal Economics and Policy of Energy and the Environment. Degree in Public Administration and International Institutions and PhD in International Law and Economics at Università Bocconi; MA in Public Policy at Brunel University London. His research interests shifted from human geography (namely: non profit, social innovation and community development) to education and training, namely innovations in pedagogy and life skills.

Rachele Ropelato -2 posts

Manager in the Career service Office at Cometa, supporting students and young people in school-job transition. Ph.D. at University of Bergamo-Adapt with a dissertation about Growth Mindset and the Cometa model of work-based guidance.

Sara Motta -2 posts

Sara Motta is a tutor at Cometa Formazione, specialized for supporting dropouts in their new beginning in a VET course. She got a degree in Philosophy in 2013 and for 5 years she has been a teacher in high schools. Her passion for teaching grew up day by day with the desire to increase her skills in educating young people: to this extent, in 2017, she decided to start a new bachelor in Educational Science. Sara is today responsible of the “Cometa High School for Job”, a program focused on dropouts, supporting every year 40 kids in their educational and personal journey, planning and monitoring their internship, counselling also in their transition to the job market.

Sebastian Irigoyen -2 posts

Sebastian Irigoyen is a doctorate candidate in Economics from Université Rennes 1. MA in Economics at Université Rennes 1. His research interest include Vocational Education Training Systems, Labor Markets, Human Development, and Public Policy Evaluation.

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