Graduated with full marks in Economics from the University of Perugia, in 1989, Sylvia began working early in 1990 for a private training services company, as Project Designer and had the opportunity to be trained at the Business School of Administration of Bocconi University in Milan as a Trainer of Trainers. After 6 years of working as an employee she decided to start a personal and professional business project: becoming an entrepreneur.

Since 1997 she is one of the three owners of FORMA.Azione srl, a private company that operates as a consulting company in applying for public funds, mainly addressing the education and training sector as well as being an accredited training centre that specifically accesses ESF funds.

To her professional expertise in Quality Assurance system which she brings to the company she also grown in a specific work area, focused on gender equality in the labour market, in the workplace and in the education, training and labour market chain, thanks to the Executive Master for “Gender Equality Experts in Labour Market Policies”, successfully attended in 2001-2002.

Since 2009 she is the Director of European projects, first working as project designer and since 2015 focusing on European networks and strategic cooperation partnerships. She now works more as projects coordinator supporting other organisations and institutions in applying for funds and/or willing to lead the project partnerships.

She also deepened strategic areas of knowledge and work: first of all, Gender Equality, being assigned as a GE expert in the National Inclusion Group of AIDP (Italian People Management Association); Quality assurance systems, in particular through the European peer review methodology; Validation of non-formal and informal learning – being also professionally certified as a “Validator”; Media and Information Literacy.

Her vision of the future is based on putting VET, Adult Learning and the Lifelong Learning approach, at the core of the Italian and EU