The Team

Chairman of Longarone Fiere, Councilor of the Italian Chamber of Commerce in Munich and delegate for the North East of the EABO (European American Business Organization) in New York. Dr. Bellati has been for years Director of Eurosportello Veneto, Director of the Office of Representation of “Unioncamere del Veneto” in Brussels and Secretary General of “Unioncamere del Veneto”. He has also worked for the European Commission and for the European Parliament in Brussels, for Alenia in Rome and for Credito Italiano in Milan and Venice. He has particular expertise in law, European policies and funding.

Following her master degree in archaeology at the University of Padua in 2007, Valentina combines her humanistic and cultural background with the projects design field. First, she starts a collaboration with UNESCO in Paris, and later enters the world of international cooperation (she cooperates with the NGO ATS pro Terra Sancta in Jerusalem and then works as Project Officer at the UNESCO office in Amman). Since 2018, she has been working as a freelancer in the field of European projects in Italy, coordinating and writing transnational projects on behalf of several public and private entities, and collaborating in the development of project outputs in the field of cultural heritage management. Since 2019, she has been working with the Venetian Cluster as Project Manager. Her areas of experience range from the protection and valorisation of tangible and intangible cultural heritage, the link between culture and development, thus also touching on the issues of cultural tourism, the creative industries and crafts, to the protection of cultural heritage (illicit trafficking of cultural goods and protection of cultural heritage in case of conflict).

Virginia first graduates in Philosophy and then attends the second level Master in Management of Cultural Heritage and Activities. After the realisation of a Project Work, Virginia starts to collaborate with Venetian Cluster dealing with support to the identification of calls and the writing of regional, national and European projects. She has also works on feasibility studies for the renovation and economic sustainability of historic buildings.

Alessandro is a manager and entrepreneur with experience in Italy and abroad, engaged in the energy, construction and infrastructure sectors. Councilor of Confindustria Vicenza SIT, Alessandro now is Chairman of the Regional Innovative Network dedicated to the cultural heritage, as well as Councilor and Shareholder of Venetian Cluster. He is also Chairman & CEO of Smart Future an Energy Service Company based in Vicenza.

Morgana holds a master’s degree in Economics and Management of Cultural Heritage and the Arts. After graduating, she specialised in digital communication and social media. Thanks to professional courses and experience in the field, she has had the opportunity to work for public and private structures dealing in particular with the online communication of events and cultural sites. She started collaborating with Venetian Cluster in 2019.