Prizes, Awards & Grants

2026 – Seal of Excellence–MSCA Individual Fellowships 2025, a quality label awarded by the European Commission to outstanding researchers and project proposals submitted under Horizon Europe’s Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Postdoctoral Fellowships which score 85% or above and could not be funded due to a lack of budget. The awarded Horizon TMA MSCA-PF-EF (Postdoctoral Fellowships-European Fellowships) project proposal Ref. 101268453–AIMPER, submitted under the call HORIZON-MSCA-2025-PF, scored 88.40%.
2025 – Selected by Ca' Foscari University of Venice for a grant (ranked #2 with 85/100 points) to participate in the EUTOPIA Design Intrapreneurship Programme (Challenge 1: Overcoming existing barriers in designing joint educational or research programs), organised by University of Gothenburg (Sweden) and Pompeu Fabra University of Barcelona (Spain), held on 3-4 June 2025 at University of Gothenburg (Sweden).
2025 – Awarded by Ca' Foscari University of Venice two mobility grants for teaching staff (score 90/100) at the University of Sarajevo (Bosnia and Herzegovina) and at the University of Cape Verde in the context of Key Action KA171 of the Erasmus+ ICM extra EU program.
2025 – Selected by Ca' Foscari University of Venice - ranked #1 with the highest score, out of two researchers - to participate in the EUTOPIA Innovation Challenge for Researchers themed “Ocean: Industry-Driven Solutions for a Sustainable Blue Economy”, held on 5-9 May 2025 at NOVA University of Lisbon, Portugal.
2023 – European Research Council (ERC) Visiting Fellowship Programme (VFP) 2023/2024 awarded by Ca' Foscari University of Venice. 1-month mobility fellowship at Iscte – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal, hosted by Yonatan N. Gez, Principal Investigator (PI) of ERC grant project AfDevLives No. 101041788. 2.300 EUR.
2023 – Overseas Programme - Call 2023 for teaching in the BA/MA programme in Political Science at the Department of Political Science, Faculty of Social and Political Science, of Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University (TSU), Georgia, in the framework of the scientific and cultural cooperation agreements stipulated by Ca’ Foscari University of Venice with non-EU universities. 1.500 EUR.
2023 – Erasmus+ KA107 International Credit Mobility (ICM) Extra-UE scholarship 2022-2025 for teaching students (ISCED 0312, 0222) at the School of Public and International Affairs, ADA University, Baku, Azerbaijan.
2022 – Research project funded by the Italian Ministry of Research and University - MUR (Directorial Decree No. 502 of 25/11/2022) under the call 'Young Researchers-Marie Skłodowska-Curie (MSCA) Seal of Excellence' (Directorial Decree No. 247/2022). Research project 'Lawful Emerging and Disruptive Technologies and Warfare. Consistency with International Law and further Considerations and Implications (LEDI)' (ID SOE_0000045). 150.000 EUR.
2022 – Recipient of seven grants (three ranked #1, four #2) by the European and Ibero-American Academy of Yuste Foundation for the participation in the international courses of the Campus Yuste programme included in the XXIII edition of the University of Extremadura’s International Summer-Autumn Courses: 'Iberian Dialogues. José Saramago: A Minute, a Century' (27-29 June 2022); 'The Worlds of Charles V. Humanism, Education, and Transmission of Knowledge in Europe and America' (6-8 July 2022); 'Youth and Europe: The Past, Present and Future of Building a Peaceful Continent' (13-15 July); 'The Challenge of Working Together: EU-Latin America and the Caribbean Relations in the Face of Major Global Challenges' (20-22 July); 'Elio Antonio De Nebrija: From Extremadura to America' (27-29 July 2022); '9th International Virtual School Cavila' – 'Teaching by Means of Videos' (27 June-22 July 2022)/'Heritage and Territorial Identity' (14-16 September 2022); 'Universal Accessibility, Social Inclusion and Leverage for Change Towards Equality' (21-23 September 2022).
2022 – Recipient of a partial scholarship by the European Scientific Institute (ESI) for the ESI Postdoctoral Training Program 'Social Sciences and Humanities in a Post-crisis period 2022/23'.
2022 – Institutional grantee, nominated by the Military University Institute (IUM)/General Staff of the Armed Forces (EMGFA), for the participation in the 2021 - Institutional grantee, nominated by the Military University Institute (IUM)/General Staff of the Armed Forces (EMGFA), for the participation in the 13rd Civil Crisis Management Course (XIII CGCC 2022), held at the National Defense Institute (IDN), Portugal, held at the National Defense Institute (IDN), Portugal, March 28-May 20, 2022.
2021 – Recipient of three grants (two ranked #1 and one #2) by the European and Ibero-American Academy of Yuste Foundation for the participation in the international courses of the Campus Yuste programme included in the XXII edition of the University of Extremadura’s International Summer-Autumn Courses: 'The Future of Health in Europe and the World: Challenges and Solutions to a Global Challenge' (27 September-1 October 2021); 'European Citizenship, Identities and Values' (4-8 September, 2021); 'Economic Impact of Climate Change in Latin America and the Caribbean' (25-27 October 2021).
2021 – Institutional grantee, nominated by the Military University Institute (IUM)/General Staff of the Armed Forces (EMGFA), for the participation in the 1st Program on Theory of Conflict Resolution (CTRC), held at the National Defense Institute (IDN), Portugal, September 22-December 15, 2021.
2021 – Seal of Excellence–MSCA Individual Fellowships 2020, a quality label awarded by the European Commission to outstanding researchers and project proposal submitted under the Horizon 2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions (MSCA) individual fellowships which score 85% or above and could not be funded due to a lack of budget. The awarded Standard European Fellowships (EF-ST) project proposal Ref. 101018114-EDT, submitted under the call H2020-MSCA-IF-2020, scored 91%.
2020 – Short Term Grant for Armenian Studies (Ref. 250390) awarded by the Armenian Communities Department of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal, for the research project 'Nagorno-Karabakh: Analysis of a Semi- Frozen Conflict'. 2.500 EUR.
2020 – Winner/recipient of the 14th edition of the European Research and Mobility Grant for European Studies 2019/Charles V European Award – Antonio Tajani, by the European and Ibero-American Academy of Yuste Foundation, Spain, with the research/contribution 'The Polar Silk Road: A Euro-Sino Economic, Political and Geo-strategic Challenge', that will be included in Vol. 13 of the series Cuadernos de Yuste released by Peter Lang International Academic Publishers, Bruxelles, Berlin, Bern, New York, Oxford, Warszawa, Wien. 2.500 EUR.
2019 – Research grant from the Knights of Vartan Fund for Armenian Studies administered by the National Association for Armenian Studies and Research (NAASR), U.S. 1.500 USD.
2018/2022 – Research fellowship (Ref. SFRH/BD/136170/2018) funded by the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (Foundation for Science and Technology, FCT) - Ministry of Science, Technology and Higher Education (Ministério da Ciência, Tecnologia e Ensino Superior, MCTES), Portugal, and by the European Social Fund (ESF). Research project 'Hybrid Conflict and the Impact on Humanitarian Law'. 51.281,04 EUR.
2016 – ISCTE-IUL Scientific Award for the paper 'The Islamic State: A Clash within the Muslim Civilization for the New Caliphate', Conflict & Terrorism, Vol. 39, No. 2, pp. 85–105. 2.300 EUR.
2005 – Gold medal/annual award 'Premio Isimbardi' of the Province of Milan, Italy.
2004/2007 – Eminent writer award of the Unione nazionale scrittori e artisti (Writers and Artists National Association, Italy).
2003/2004 Tuition weaver for high merit from the University of Milan, Italy.
2002 – Silver plate of the President of the Italian Republic, Hon. Carlo Azeglio Ciampi.

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