1. Professional experience
In 2009, after leaving his soft skills courses in Italy, Mr. Edoardo Formigoni settled in
Brussels to start his new career as a freelance Italian language trainer for the
European Institutions.
He teaches group and individual courses of the Commission and the Council, ranging
from beginner level through to advanced classes and works on a daily basis with civil
servants from various linguistic and cultural backgrounds. He adapts his dynamic
communicative method for the different career needs of his learners, covering the
whole hierarchical range. By the strength of his approach and his interpersonal skills,
his participants learn to apply Italian style in their oral and written communication.
He is also in charge of teaching highly specialised courses for Interpreters and helping
them to develop their comprehension of native speaker political messaging. Most of his
former students added Italian to their professional palette in the Strasbourg
Parliament. He also carries out placement tests on a regular basis. Besides teaching and
level testing, he is also involved in the design and conception of exams, training
materials and other projects such as linguistic and cultural marketing by poster
campaigns.
Before 2009, he spent his liberal arts master and his philosophy bachelor as a
consultant for the private and public sector for five years. He trained and coached
more than three hundred people coming from the industrial and health sectors. His
soft-skills training techniques using Shakespearean plays to analyse key motivations
helped to develop the leadership skills of groups of entrepreneurs and medical
practitioners. Expanding this approach to include an exploration of the themes in major
movies, he helped groups of managers to improve their time management and team
building skills. The technique was further developed to include cultural awareness and
gender equality training for civil servants by using key storylines to examine social
messaging and stereotyping.
From 2008 to 2010, as a project manager, he won an European Project – Interreg IV
Alcotra - focused on food education in schools and spent his leadership in French with a
French-Italian partnership. He designed the different steps, conducted focus groups
and coordinated some workgroups to develop and implement the core project. He
translated many presentations for the project.
He reads extensively on diverse topics, including the arts and spiritual subjects, in
which he holds a master´s degree. He is currently researching material for a book
about the Great Schism in the 11th Century. He is involved in French translations on
theological and bioethics subjects.
He´s always ready to engage in new projects.