Antonella Fresa

ICCU -MiBAC (Ministry of Culture, Italy)

Engineer at Olivetti at the research centres of Pisa, Ivrea and Cupertino (Califormia) from 1980 to 1989 and at the Tower Tech engineering company in Pisa from 1990 to 1994. She has been involved in EU projects since 1993, writing proposals, managing projects and taking part in reviews and evaluation. From 1998 to 2002 she worked as Project Officer at the European Commission in Brussels. In the last ten years she has personally managed several projects in FP5, FP6, FP7, eTEN and eContent+. She has acted as evaluator and rapporteur for the RTD Framework programmes of the EU. She has extensive personal experience of digital humanities, acting as a consultant to the Italian Ministry of Culture since 2002 and contributing substantially to the work of the Minerva, Michael, Europeana, ATHENA, LINKED HERITAGE, DC-NET and INDICATE projects.