Founder and Executive Director 

Dr. Giovanni Gentile

PROFESSIONAL CAREER

- Lecturer in Italian at the Faculty of Education at Comenius University and later at the Faculty of Mass Media at the Pan-European University in Bratislava.

- Teacher with over 25 years of experience teaching general and specialized Italian for Slovak institutions, private academies, and large multinational companies, such as the Slovak Embassy in Rome, the Slovak National Bank, the Dante Alighieri Society (Bratislava/Košice), the Academy of Education, the Institute of Banking Education, the Berlitz Institute, the Humboldt Institute, ACCENTURE, AT&T, EMERSON, IBM, INTESA SAN PAOLO, and many other private companies.

- Coordinator of the first Italian language high school exams at the Slovak National Institute of Education.

- Member of the Italian language examination commission for the Diplomatic Academy of the Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs of the Slovak Republic.

- Teacher of Italian language and culture in Vienna for one year.

- Professional Slovak language interpreter and translator for many Italian and Slovak companies.

- Former member of the executive committee of the Slovak Association of Translators and Interpreters.

- Chairman of the Italian language examination commission for Italian sworn interpreters and translators at the Ministry of Justice of the Slovak Republic.

- Trainer of sworn Italian translators at Pavol Jozef Safarik University in Kosice.

- Content creator of a unique innovative digital platform for studying Italian language and culture for Italian translators, trainers, teachers, tutors and students "The Italian culture that I like online!

- Consultant with 10 years of experience in the field of internationalization for small and medium sized Italian companies on the Slovak market.

- Former president of the Slovak non-profit organization ASPIM EUROPA  (Association of Services for Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises - Europe)

- Former president of the Slovak non-profit organization PRIATELIA TALIANSKEJ A SLOVENSKEJ KULTÚRY (Friends of Italian and Slovak culture).

- Founder and director of the International Festival ITALIAN-SLOVAK FRIENDSHIP DAYS.

- Founder and Executive Director of UNIVERSO ITALIA.