BESIO Serenella

FULL PROFESSOR in the scientific disciplinary sector M-PED/03 (currently PAED/02-A), Special Education and Special Teaching, competitive sector 11-D2 (currently GSD 11-PAED/02), at the University of Bergamo since October 2017. Her previous career was at the University of Valle d'Aosta.
RECTOR'S DELEGATE for disability and diversity policies at the University of Bergamo since December 2021.
MEMBER of the Teaching Board of the three PhD programs active at the Department of Human and Social Sciences at the University of Bergamo since July 2017 and previously of others.
PRESIDENT of the Master's Degree Program in "Designing Accessible and Inclusive Living Contexts" at UNIBG, starting from the 2025/2026 academic year.
DIRECTOR of the Specialization Course for Support Activities at the University of Bergamo, cycles IV, V, VII, VIII, and IX.
FOUNDER and COORDINATOR since 2021 of the IperDEA Research and Training Center (Disability Inclusion, Empowerment, and Accessibility) at UNIBG (www.iperdea.it), affiliated with CQIIA (Center for Teaching Quality, Educational Innovation, and Learning).
DIRECTOR of the Level I Master's Program in "Disability Manager" (2019-2020) at UNIBG.
DIRECTOR OF THE DEPARTMENT OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES at the University of Bergamo. d’Aosta from April 2012 to September 2017 (until transferring to UNIBG).
Chair of the European COST Action "LUDI - Play for Children with Disabilities" (2014-2018).
Principal investigator of the PRIN 2022 project "FROB - Family of ROBots for children with disabilities" (2023-2025) and the CARIPLO project "DDM – More than just numbers: disability data matter. A model and a device to support the inclusion of persons with disabilities" (2021-2024).
He has held national and international positions, at the Ministerial and European Commission levels, for the evaluation of research projects.