Filippo Dal Fiore Was Born in Cesena, Italy, in 1977

FILIPPO DAL FIORE
E-learning and Knowledge Economy Researcher
Cà Foscari University of Venice, I

BIOGRAPHY
Filippo Dal Fiore was born in Cesena, Italy, in 1977.
He graduated in 2001 in Communication Sciences at the University of Padua.

During the degree he spent two long periods of study and research at the University of Salamanca (Spain), where he collaborated in the Communication Office, and at Venice International University (a consortium of 6 universities among which the American “Duke University” and the German “Ludwick Maximilians Universitet”), in the training and research center TEDIS (Technologies in Distributed Intelligence Systems).
At TEDIS he took part to the experimental training project “SDILAB”, an innovative laboratory for graduating students who wanted to deepen the problems of knowledge economy and information society in a collaborative way, based on an online platform, focusing on concrete business cases and experimenting alternative organisational models.
After graduation he worked 4 months in Brussels (Belgium) for a European affairs consultancy company, where he had the opportunity to deepen the problems concerning European financing programmes (in particular the Fifth Framework Programme for Research and Technology Development, 5FP), and to collaborate with a project manager in conceiving and managing a few international partnership projects competing for 5FP’s financings, in the fields of collaborative e-learning and e-entrepreneurship.
When back to Italy he collaborated in TEDIS in a project about personalisation of learning paths through reusable multimedia learning objects.
He now works on the ESF funded project “E-learning for artisan SMEs”, an one year long experimentation to verify the potential of e-learning and knowledge management for Italian small enterprises of the mechanic sector. To carry out this reseach project he is supported by the Interfaculty Center for Educational and Didactic Research at Cà Foscari University of Venice, where he also collaborates in the “Training Manager” Master programme and in searching for new opportunities of research partnerships with private enterprises.
His broader research themes of interest are: online communities of practice for continuing education and training; new paradigms and organisational forms for the network society and the knowledge economy; Internet and internationalisation processes; continuing education as a value oriented personal project.
The added value of his approach is that of integrating the communication and social views with the economic perspective, with a clear knowledge of the potentials of the New Information and Communication Technologies.
Filippo is fluent in Italian, English, Spanish and German. He speaks conversational French.