Our Centre

A research community

The members of CRESPI are researchers in Experimental Pedagogy and other related educational fields from the Universities of Bolzano, Bologna, Cagliari, Florence, Milano Bicocca, Modena and Reggio Emilia, Parma, Pavia, Perugia, Roma Lumsa, Roma Sapienza, Roma Tre and Verona.
We see teacher professional development as an ongoing career-long process of building and consolidating professional competence through participating in significant professional learning experiences in contexts that contribute to that process.
We are committed to working in partnership with teachers and educators in a wide spectrum of educational settings involving all age ranges in order to improve educational outcomes through evidence-based approaches, transform teacher action, promote teacher reflexivity and enhance professional learning.

Members

The Centre has concluded its first three-year term. The newly elected governing bodies will be announced on 30 October 2025.

Director

Scientific Coordinator

Secretary

Barbara Caprara University of Modena and Reggio Emilia

Executive Board

Below are the names of the representatives from the thirteen universities for the 2025-2028 term. The members of the Executive Board are also part of the Scientific Council of the Center.

Gabriella Agrusti LUMSA University, Rome
Giorgio Asquini Sapienza University of Rome
Chiara Bertolini University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
Giovanni Bonaiuti University of Cagliari
Davide Capperucci University of Florence
Federico Corni Free University of Bozen-Bolzano

Cristiano Corsini Roma Tre University
Mina De Santis University of Perugia

Claudio Girelli University of Verona
Elisabetta Nigris University of Milano-Bicocca
Andrea Pintus University of Parma
Donatella Savio University of Pavia

Ira Vannini University of Bologna

Other Members of the Scientific Council

Debora Aquario, Gabriele Azzaro, Lucia Balduzzi, Marco Bartolucci, Federico Batini, Guido Benvenuto, Alessia M.A. Bevilacqua, Ivana Bolognesi, Anna Maria Bondioli, Davide Capperucci, Roberta Cardarello, Donatella Cesareni, Andrea Ciani, Cristiano Corsini, Roberto Dainese, Paola Damiani, Valeria Damiani, Mirella D'Ascenzo, Cristiana De Santis, Mina De Santis, Martin Dodman, Piergiuseppe Ellerani, Enrico Angelo Emili, Maurizio Fabbri, Luca Ferrari, Federica Ferretti, Antonio Gariboldi, Maurizio Gentile, Claudio Girelli, Simone Giusti, Giovanna Guerzoni, Dina Guglielmi, Arianna Lazzari, Bruno Losito, Elena Luppi, Vanessa Macchia, Anita Macauda, Consuelo Mameli, Licia Masoni, Maria Cristina Matteucci, Ivo Mattozzi, Elena Mignosi, Elena Pacetti, Chiara Panciroli, Giulia Pastori, Stefano Piastra, Anna Pileri, Andrea Pintus, Tiziana Pironi, Alessandra Rosa, Rosario Salvato, Mariangela Scarpini, Moira Sannipoli, Michela Schenetti, Liliana Silva, Alessandro Soriani, Paolo Sorzio, Elisa Truffelli, Dario Tuorto, Margherita Venturi, Luisa Zecca, Franca Zuccoli.

Operational Secretariat

Francesca Fioretti

Research Collaborators

Phd, ricercatori e ricercatrici, specializzande e specializzandi.

Caterina Bembich, Flavio Brescianini, Alessandra Boscolo, Valeria Cotza, Letizia Capelli, Ermelinda De Carlo, Cristiana De Santis, Daniela Di Donato, Ottavio Fattorini, Claudia Fredella, Alessandro Gelmi, Annamaria Gentile, Martina Ghio, Elisa Guasconi, Carla Gueli, Laura Landi, Claudia Lichene, Annarita Monaco, Alessandro Oro, Valentina Pagani, Giulia Paganin, Franco Passalacqua, Marianna Piccioli, Camilla Pirrello, Aurora Ricci, Ilaria Salvadori, Irene Scierri, Lucia Scipione, Irene Stanzione, Camilla Spagnolo, Agnese Vezzani