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Alberto Gasparini (born January 13, 1940, in Modena, Italy) is an Italian professor of sociology. He is a founder and president of the International University Institute of the European Studies (IUIES) and director of the journals Futuribili (New Edition), ISIG Journal and IUIES Journal. [1]
Prior to his academic training, Gasparini researched and wrote a book on the history of the dispute between the Church and the Dukes of Ferrara between October 1597 and January 1598. Gasparini graduated in sociology from University of Trento (Italy) in 1969. He started working as junior and then senior researcher at the International Sociology Institute of Gorizia (ISIG) from 1970. He was lecturer and then associate professor in sociology of organizations at the University of Bologna from 1977 to 1987. In the 1983 was visiting scholar at University of Washington, Seattle. In the 1987 he became a full professor of urban and rural sociology at the University of Trieste. In this university he also taught sociology of international relations and techniques of forecasting. In 1989 he was appointed director of ISIG, and then director of the Department of Human Sciences at the University of Trieste. In 1992 he started up a research doctorate (PhD) in Sociology of territorial and international phenomena, of which he was coordinator.As director of ISIG he worked on relations with scholar from, and on the problems of, the countries which emerged from the collapse of the communist system after 1989.
He established relations with the Soviet Institute of Sociology and Academy of Science, the Universities of Moscow, Leningrad (subsequently St. Petersburg), Kharkiv and Tyumen. This led to a macro-research project on relations among ethnic groups in Europe, including three (Italians, Friulani and Slovenes) in Friuli-Venezia Giulia, three (Serbs, Hungarians and Slovaks) in the Yugoslav region of Vojvodina, four (Ukrainians, Russians, Jews and Belarusians) in the Ukrainian Kharkiv Oblast, and four (Russians, Ukrainians, Caucasians and Tatars) in the Siberian Tyumen Oblast.
While working at the University of Trieste and ISIG he resumed publication of the prediction journal Futuribili which deals with the prediction of social and political developments that have included the Yugoslav wars, Russia, the lives of futurologists, the concepts underpinning prediction, the future of religion and the Italy of the future.
In 2000 Gasparini proposed to nine European universities (Trieste, Udine, Nova Gorica, Klagenfurt, Comenius in Bratislava, Eotvos Lorand in Budapest, Babes-Bolyai in Cluj Napoca, Jagellonica in Kraków and the MGIMO in Moscow) and ISIG the idea of forming an international university consortium of European studies (IUIES) to design and organise a research doctorate (PhD) in “Transborder policies for daily life” and two Masters (MA) courses, one on “Communication and methods of European policy making” and the other on “International Peace Operators”. The students and teachers come from all over the world and carry out all academic activities in English.
From 2007 Alberto Gasparini has been appointed a full member of the Club of Rome. [2]
As well as academic publications, Gasparini has written, co-authored or edited 87 books. A selection is listed below, according to the main themes.
Housing and the community:
City in relation to the symbolism of its spaces, organisations, social planning, technology and the future:
Rural modernisation:
Prediction and the role of new technologies:
Civil society, ethnicity, peace and borders:
Gasparini has received the following international honors and awards:
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