Ermelinda De Carlo  is an expert in the design and recognition of skills acquired in formal and non-formal contexts. She is a professor at an Italian school in Lecce. Currently she is a research fellow at University of Perugia. For over 15 years he has been working on narrative devices to tell the transversal skills and to measure and evaluate the educational outcomes in national and international projects in the field of school dropouts, orientation and validation and certification of competences, with particular reference to social and civic competences. She is an expert about Digital curricular story, a guidance device to tell about transversal skills. She is also responsible for the Italian national project “Scuol@genda 2030 for sustainability”, financed by the Department and responsible for monitoring the evidence-based research “Puglia-Russia 2021”, financed by the Apulia Region. She is an active member of several national and international research groups and she speaks at national and international conferences.