Valeria Sparano
Personal details
Date of birth: 25 January 1979
Place of birth: Turin, Italy
Nationality: Italian
Affiliations
Member of the Italian Political Science Association (SISP) since 2005.
Education and research activity
July 2007
PhD in Political Science – University of Pavia.
Thesis title: “I partenariati pubblico-privati per lo sviluppo locale. Il caso dei Patti territoriali della Provincia di Torino”. Supervisor: Prof. Maurizio Ferrera.
26 – 30 June 2006
First NewGov – Connex Training Course on “New Modes of Governance: Theoretical Approaches and Research Methods”, at the European University Institute, Firenze.
August – December 2004
Visiting scholar at the EU Center of Excellence, University of Wisconsin – Madison, USA.
April 2004 – Present
Research activity at URGE, Research Unit on European Governance.
25 August – 5 September 2003
Summer School in “Quantitative Methods of Policy Analysis”, Progetto Valutazione, Turin.
April 2003
Degree in Political Science (with a focus on ‘Policy Analysis’) received from the University of Turin.
Final grade: 110/110 cum laude.
Thesis title: ‘eGovernment: esperienze, difficoltà e prospettive’. Supervisor: Prof. Luigi Bobbio
January 2003
Research activity on “eGovernment and Information Society” at CSIPiemonte, Turin.
September 2001 - January 2002
Erasmus Program at the University of Wolverhampton, UK.
1998
Diploma di Maturità Scientifica, Liceo Scientifico Giordano Bruno, Turin. Overall mark: 60/60.







