Roberta Lunghini holds a degree in Foreign Languages and Literature from the Università degli Studi of Perugia. In 2006-2007 she collaborated with IPRS (Institute for Psychoanalytical Social Research) in Rome. Her main duties were the planning and monitoring of field research within the European project “Equal Action II”. Since April 2007, she works as Editor for the Italian Desk of West, she is also Director Assistant; among her tasks: she is responsible for the research, the collection and analysis of texts and articles the drafting of institutional acts, calls and events at national, regional and local levels in the field of social policies. She has also been Editor in the framework of two projects funded by the European Union: “Disability and Social Exclusion” and “West News – West Community”.