Lia Briganti

Lia Briganti has taken her degree in Phylosophy at the University of Bologna ( Italy) in 1981.
From the ’78 to the ’81 , she has collaborated at a research in Linguistic Education in the School of the 150 Hours in the Regional Institut of Psychopedagogy of Learning of the Region Emilia-Romagna.
From the ’82 to the ’84 , she has been Associated Professor of Semiotics at the Department of Semiotics and Performing Arts of The American College of Rome of the University of Charleston, West Virginia, U.S.A., in Rome, Italy.
During the Academic Year ‘82-’83 she has teached Text Theory in the same Department.
From the ’83 to the ’91 she has worked as researcher in Linguistics and in Semantics at the Faculty of Linguistics and Science of the Literature of the University of Bielefeld, Germany.
From the ’85 to the ’91 she has worked also in the Informatic Center of the University of Bielefeld in the fields of the Logical-Semantic Languages and of the Artificial Intelligence Languages.
During the ‘ 88 she has developed a research in the fields of the Linguistics and of the Artificial Intelligence for the Center of American Studies of Romes ; the title of the research is the following :  “ Teaching English by the Textual Method “ .
During the ’91, she has taken courses of Italian as foreign language at the Volkhochschule of Bielefeld.
In ’94 , in the framework of a course of training for intrapreneurs of the European Comunity ( NOW course ) at the ECIPAR of Bologna, she has followed a stage in Informatics at the software house Gruppo Formula-West 80 of Bologna; during the stage she has collaborated to create the multimedial prototype “ Bologna metropolitan town “.
In ’95 she has founded C.I.R.N.E.T. , the International Center of Research for the New Technologies, that has its seat in Bologna and of which she is the president.