Raniero Chelli has over 25 years of experience in international projects with specific reference to EU funded programmes in RTD and international cooperation. Project Management, Communication (personal and institutional) deep knowledge of both public and private sector deriving from experiences as a civil servant (including with the European Commission), as an entrepreneur and a free lance Consultant and as a professional trainer in the area of designing European Projects. He has been responsible for the Operational Unit known as "Training, Capacity building and Project design" at CIRPS (the Interuniversity Centre for Research on Sustainable Development of Rome University "La Sapienza") and as such he was the coordinator of the Master in "Cooperation and Design for Sustainable development" run by the Centre. He is currently responsible for the International Projects area at CATTID (University of Rome "Sapienza".