Alberto Gasparini

[1] Prior to his academic training, Gasparini researched and wrote a book on the history of the dispute between the Church and the Dukes of Ferrara between October 1597 and January 1598.

In 1992 he started up a research doctorate (PhD) in Sociology of territorial and international phenomena, of which he was coordinator.As director of ISIG he worked on relations with scholar from, and on the problems of, the countries which emerged from the collapse of the communist system after 1989.

He established relations with the Soviet Institute of Sociology and Academy of Science, the Universities of Moscow, Leningrad (subsequently St. Petersburg), Kharkiv and Tyumen.

In 2000 Gasparini proposed to nine European universities (Trieste, Udine, Nova Gorica, Klagenfurt, Comenius in Bratislava, Eotvos Lorand in Budapest, Babes-Bolyai in Cluj Napoca, Jagellonica in Kraków and the MGIMO in Moscow) and ISIG the idea of forming an international university consortium of European studies (IUIES) to design and organise a research doctorate (PhD) in “Transborder policies for daily life” and two Masters (MA) courses, one on “Communication and methods of European policy making” and the other on “International Peace Operators”.

Housing and the community: City in relation to the symbolism of its spaces, organisations, social planning, technology and the future: Rural modernisation: Prediction and the role of new technologies: Civil society, ethnicity, peace and borders: Gasparini has received the following international honors and awards: