Giancarlo Spinelli

Giancarlo Spinelli is Rector’s Delegate for International Networks at the Politecnico di Milano, Italy, and since 1980, full professor of Rational Mechanics. At the Politecnico di Milano, he has been responsible for the ERASMUS programme since its beginning, and has been active in the ECTS since it was a pilot project. Giancarlo has been the initiator and project leader of numerous international educational projects financed by the European Commission. He has developed graduate double degrees in Engineering in the framework of the T.I.M.E. Association since 1988. He is a member of many International Advisory Boards, as well as Honorary Professor of UNINORTE, Barranquilla (Colombia), and Honorary Doctor of AUST, Beirut (Lebanon), Lund University (Sweden) and Ecole Centrale de Nantes (France). Giancarlo was President of the EAIE in 1997. He was also awarded the first EAIE Transatlantic Leadership Award in 2009.