Arturo Lavalle

Arturo Lavalle earned a degree in Modern Languages and Literatures at the University of Cassino, Italy. After having attended the university he made two master courses, one in Economy and Management of Cultural Heritage at the Università Tor Vergata of Rome and the other in Project Cycle Management at the CNR, the Italian National Research Council.He is currently working at the International Relations Office of Università Telematica Guglielmo Marconi where, beside the ordinary activity of that department, he regularly takes part in the drawing up of projects responding to European and International Call for Proposals. He is also involved in the promotion and advance of the Association GUIDE – Global Universities in Distance Education and in the running and administration of M-blog 2009, a blog/platform on international development and open, distance and flexible learning. Concerning the most recent experiences as a conference presenter, it is worth remembering his participation to: Lifelong Learning in the city-region International Conference, Pecs-Hungary – 23-25 September 2007 where he presented the paper “A European city-regions platform for lifelong learning development and social cohesion enhancement”PEN3L / PASCAL 2008 Conference “Learning Regions’ Role in Regional Development and Re-Generation”, Limerick, Ireland 28-30 May 2008 where he presented the paper “The Monti Ausoni Industrial District: Definitive Decline or Possible Re-Generation?”2nd ACDE Conference and General Assembly, Lagos – Nigeria 8-11 July 2008 where he presented the paper “GUIDE Association: a Model of Excellence for Academic Cooperation”ICDE 23rd World Conference, Maastricht – The Netherlands 7-10 June 2009 where he presented the paper “The Impact of Cultural Diversity on Learning in General and on Distance Education in particular”