Italy

Alessandra Vittorini is an architect with a PhD in Territorial and Urban Planning. She has held senior positions at the Italian Ministry of Culture and served as Director of the Fondazione Scuola dei Beni e delle Attività Culturali.

From 2012 to 2020, she directed the Superintendency for Architectural Heritage and Landscape of Abruzzo, and later the Superintendency for Archaeology, Fine Arts and Landscape for L’Aquila and the earthquake-affected area, coordinating activities and programmes linked to the post-2009 earthquake reconstruction. She led the restoration of the Basilica of S. Maria di Collemaggio, which received the European Heritage Award/Europa Nostra Award 2020 (Grand Prix, Conservation category).

Between 2020 and 2024, she directed the Fondazione Scuola dei Beni e delle Attività Culturali, an institute for training and research in cultural heritage management, promoting research and training programmes nationally and internationally, including the PNRR national digital skills training programme for cultural heritage.

She is a member of the Technical Committee of the Extraordinary Government Commissioner for post-2016 earthquake cultural heritage reconstruction, serves on the Advisory Board of the Master in Management of Cultural Heritage and Institutions at Politecnico di Milano, and participates in several scientific committees, including Intrecci: International Journal of Architectural Conservation and Restoration and the series Ethics and Cultural Heritage of the Italian National Research Council. She is Vice-Chair of the Selection Committee for “Conservation and Adaptive Reuse,” a member of the Jury for the European Heritage Awards/Europa Nostra Awards 2025, and sits on the Scientific Committee of the Archaeological Park of Ostia Antica-Rome.

Francesco Trovò is an architect (IUAV) with a PhD in Conservation of Architectural Heritage from Milan Polytechnic. He served for many years as an official architect at the ABAP Superintendency for the Municipality of Venice and its Lagoon, where he took on various coordination roles, including the UNESCO site “Venice and its Lagoon” and was responsible for the restoration of important public buildings in Venice.

He is an associate professor in Architectural preservation at the University IUAV of Venice. He carries out study and research activities on historical buildings in Venice, Cultural Heritage and climate change. He has participated in international conferences and is the author of several scientific publications. He sits on numerous scientific committees of journals and is a member of associations dealing with Cultural Heritage, such as Green Building Council Italia and ICOMOS Italia.