Sofia Corradi is Ordinary Professor of Permanent Education at "Roma Tre State University”, Director of its Laboratory of Lifelong Learning and of its Postgraduate Course in Lifelong Learning.
She studied and performed research at Columbia University in New York City (as a recipient of Fulbright and of Columbia fellowships), at the UN Commission on Human Rights, at The Hague Academy of International Law and at the London School of Economics. In 1980, she became Associate Professor of Adult Education (with permanent tenure) at the University of Rome “La Sapienza.”
For twenty years, she was Scientific Director of the Rome office of the Standing Conference of Rectors of Italian Universities (CRUI). She is world-renowned as the founder of the Erasmus Programme of the European Union for the interchange of students between universities.
She was Member of the Steering Committee and Italian Representative in the Placement Project (1988-90) funded by the European Union, and from which the EURES network was founded (1993) for the intra-European placement of workers.
For three terms (1993 – 2000) she was an elected Member of the Academic Senate of the  “Roma Tre State University.” In 2002, she was elected member of the Board of EAEA, the Brussels-based pan-European Association for the Education of Adults.
She speaks and writes in English and French, and understands spoken and written Spanish and Portuguese.
She is the author of hundreds of articles and essays in scientific journals, as well as in leading newspapers, some of which are in English and French, or have been translated into other languages, such as Russian or Lithuanian. A few of her books include:

• Erasmus e Comett (Rome, Bulzoni, 1988.)
• Erasmus, Comett, Lingua, Tempus. Educazione permanente e formazione universitaria internazionale (Rome-Milan, Franco Angeli, 1991).
• (With an ample abstract in English) Le Conferenze dei Rettori delle Università, italiana (CRUI) comunitaria (EUREC), paneuropea (CRE), mondiale (AIU-IAU). Storia e documenti (Rome, Aracne, 1998).
• Cittadini italiani e cittadini europei. Per una educazione a nuove cittadinanze. In collaboration with Teresa M. Mazzatosta. (Rome, SEAM, 2001).
• (With an ample abstract in English) Un percorso di auto-educazione. Materiali per una bio-bibliografia di Mario Verdone. The Lifelong Learning of a Self-Made Man. Materials for a Bio-bibliography of Mario Verdone. In collaboration with Isabella Madia. Laboratory of Comparative Education and Laboratory of Lifelong Learning of the State University “Roma Tre”. Rome, Aracne, 2003).

Eugenia Tesoro, a graduate in Scenography at "Fine Arts Academy" in Naples she received the Master Degree in Creative communication for cultural heritages at "Brera Fine Art  Academy" in Milano. She did graduated studies in Lifelong Learnig in "Roma Tre State Univesity" and has been Assistant of prof. Sofia Corradi at "Laboratory of Lifelong Learning" in the same University.
Qualified teacher since 1988, she taught Art and Design in the Secondary Schools and Lyceums in Napoli and has special expertise in European and Regional matters. She has carried out her professional activity of graphic and designer cooperating for a long time with the newspaper “Il Mattino” in Naples, "Amnesty International – Italian Section", the "Naples Tourism Promotion Company". For about ten years she has been responsible for the graphic image at "San Carlo Opera House" in Naples for whom she designed, among other things, the commemorative medal for the 240th anniversary of its foundation. She cooperated for the graphic image with “Ballet du XXe Siècle de Maurice Bejart” (Bruxelles), “Ballet National de Marseille - Roland Petit”, “Joe Lazzini Ballet” (Paris) and “Carla Fracci Ballet Company” (Milano). In 1995 she realized the "DNA Monument" for the Montedison Factory in Jakarta (Indonesia).
Since 1990 she is interested in experiments of computerized design and particularly in the use of new technologies in learning and in visual communication. She is the author of hundreds of articles in leading newspapers.
In the last ten years she was the Co-ordinator of several Educational Transnational Projects funded by the European Union. At present she is the overall Co-ordinator of NEAC- Network of European Alimentary Culture, a network funded by the European Union Commission in the framework of the "Lifelong Learning Programme" (formerly Socrates-Comenius).
Some of the activities included: