Laura Paternoster
University of Trento, Italy
Laura Paternoster received the Rising Star Award in 2011 for her efforts to put the EAIE at the forefront of the field. The Awards Committee acknowledged her service as a Board member of the EAIE Professional Section Management of Programmes in Lifelong Education (MOPILE), as a trainer at one of the EAIE training courses and as a speaker at sessions and workshops at the EAIE conference and at meetings and conferences of other international organisations such as AIEA and APAIE. She was the Head of the International Relations Division at the University of Trento at the time that she received the award.