RESEARCH PROJECTS (selection)
2005- Coordinator of the Comparative Research Project “Atypical Employment and Welfare Regimes”, funded within the EQUALSOC Network (http://www.equalsoc.org/22)
2008- "Comparative School Discipline", coordinate by Richard Arum Social Science Research Council and New York University
2008- "FlexCareer II", coordinated by Hans-Peter Blossfeld and Karin Kurz, Universities Bamberg and Leipzig (http://www.flexcareer.de) funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft DFG
2006-2007 "FlexCareer I", coordinated by Hans-Peter Blossfeld and Karin Kurz, University of Bamberg (http://www.flexcareer.de) funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft DFG
2005- member of the "EQUALSOC Network of Excellence" funded by the EU, http://www.equalsoc.org/
1999-2003 "New Forms of Self-employment". Coordinated by Prof. Walter Mueller, Mannheim University, fundend by the Fritz-Thyssen Stiftung.
1997-1999 "Indagine Longitudinale sulle Famiglie Italiane (ILFI)", directed by Prof. Antonio Schizzerotto, Ia, IIa, IVa e Va wave. dell’Università di Trento (http://www.soc.unitn.it/ilfi/)
1997-1998 "EPUSE: Employment Precarity, Unemployment and Social Exclusion in Europe", CEE-D.G.II, coordinated by Prof. Duncan Gallie, Nuffield College, Oxford.
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1997-1998 "Transformation of labour and future of labour law in Europe", project: CEE-D.G.V, directed by Prof. Alain Supiot.
1995-1996 Progetto Strategico C.N.R. su "Disoccupazione e basso livello di attività in Italia: cause specifiche e rimedi adeguati" coordinated by Prof. Michele Salvati.
1991-1992 “Long-Term Unemployment”, CEE research project, coordinated by Prof. Duncan Gallie, Nuffield College, Oxford.
1990-1992 Researcher of the ’Istituto di Ricerche Economico-Sociali della Lombardia (IRES) Lombardia) nel campo della Sociologia Industriale e del Lavoro. Various projects, among these: with Prof. Antonio Chiesi various research on innovation technologies and the transformation of manufacture work.