Graduated in 2006 in Architecture and Urban Planning from the University of Florence (Italy), Eleonora Berti has obtained in 2010 a PhD degree in Landscape Architecture and Planning, studying the connections between the Council of Europe Cultural Routes programme and the European Landscape Convention. She joined the European Federation of Napoleonic Cities in March 2020 as deputy director, and took up her director position in January 2021. Eleonora is Individual expert in the European Cultural Forum, created by the European Commission, DG EAC and since June 2023, she is President of the French Federation of European Cultural Routes (FFICE).
Between 2009 and 2019, Eleonora has been working at the European Institute of Cultural Routes as Senior Project Officer. Among her tasks, she was responsible for coordinating the certification and evaluation process of the Cultural Routes of the Council of Europe, for facilitating synergies with significant European and International organisations and networks, and for creating and coordinating a specific Network of Universities, in Europe and beyond. In 2019-2020, she was Adjunct Professor at the University of Bologna, Department of Economics.
She is editor and author of the book “Cultural Routes management: from theory to practice”, edited in English and French by the Council of Europe in 2015 and translated into Romanian and Georgian, and of a number of chapters and articles on Cultural Routes, cultural heritage management, and sustainable development and tourism.
