# Sergio Pappagallo

> Philosopher of technology in Rome. PhD Fellow in Human Sciences for Innovation, Inclusion and Sustainability at Link Campus University (PNRR, 2024 to 2027), independent public funding advisor for EU projects, and teacher of AI ethics and applied AI.

Website in English: https://sergiopappagallo.com/
Website in Italian: https://sergiopappagallo.com/it/
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0005-5960-636X
Contact: ser.pappagallo@gmail.com, Rome, Italy

## Research
PhD Fellow in Human Sciences for Innovation, Inclusion and Sustainability at Link Campus University, Rome, 2024 to 2027. PNRR project AURORA, with Entropy Knowledge Network as industrial partner. Supervised by Prof. Stefania Capogna and Prof. Eliseo Sciarretta.
Doctoral question: what compulsory online training means for the people who work in Italian and Spanish municipalities, and whether it widens or narrows their real freedom to learn, read through the Capability Approach (Sen, Nussbaum, Robeyns).

## Publications
- Beyond the Non-Human. Towards an Autonomous Theory of Machine Civilisation (2026). with R. Longo, Journal of Posthumanism 6(2), 732–747. https://doi.org/10.63332/joph.v6i2.4019
- Balancing Innovation and Equity. An Analysis of the European AI Act (2025). Quaderni di Comunità, n. 1/2025, pp. 127–133. https://doi.org/10.61007/qdc.2025.1.284
- Micro-Credentials and the Digital Transformation of Higher Education (2025). Quaderni di Comunità, n. 2/2025. https://doi.org/10.61007/qdc.2025.2.386
- Chatbots in Education. A Dual Perspective on Innovation and Ethics (2024). Journal of Digital Pedagogy 3(1), 3–10. https://doi.org/10.61071/JDP.2420
- The Emerging Role of Academic and Research Institutions (2024). in Carrera et al., Impact Innovation in the Wider Mediterranean, WriteUp.
- Review of Oltre l’Habitus by Stefania Capogna (2024). QTimes. https://www.qtimes.it/?p=autori&id=1407

## Talks
- Ethics of AI and Sustainable Digital Ecosystems. Beyond Technological Solutionism (2025). FORGING webinar, Digital Co-Creativity in Industry 5.0, online, 3 December.
- Micro-credentials and the digital transformation of higher education (2025). HEAd’25, Valencia.
- IPR4SC Final Conference (2025). Ljubljana.
- The impact of automation on the liberal professions. Confprofessioni, for Entropy Knowledge Network.

## EU projects
Funded projects: XRFEST (Creative Europe, 2027 to 2029, funded in 2026), IPR4SC (project manager, 2023 to 2025), ECOLHE (financial audit, 2023), UP2YOU (work package 1, 2023 to 2025), D-ChallengHE (financial management, 2023 to 2024), YOULEADERS (implementation, 2023 to 2024), BUTH-AI (training team, 2026).
Proposals written in 2025 and 2026 for Horizon Europe (Clusters 2, 5 and 6), MSCA Doctoral Networks and Staff Exchanges, ERC Synergy, Erasmus+ (CBHE, CB-VET, Erasmus Mundus, KA220) and Creative Europe, also as Policy Associate for 89 Global, London.

## Artificial intelligence
Training in the ethics of AI and in the use of AI:
- Ethics of AI, digital badge, LSE Executive Education, 2023.
- AI and European Union Law. Navigating Regulatory Compliance, Coursera, 2026.
- Generative AI. Introduction and Applications, with the Generative AI Essentials badge, IBM, Coursera, 2026.
- ChatGPT for Everyone, prompt engineering, Learn Prompting, 2024.

Teaching:
- Instructor, Ethics of AI, for the Italian public administration.
- Training team, AI ethics hackathons, for secondary-school students, BUTH-AI, Erasmus+, 2026.
- Trainer, Use of Artificial Intelligence in Education, 27 hours, D-ChallengHE, Erasmus+ KA220-HED, 2024, certificate of delivery.
- Guest lecture, AI in Education, 2024.
- Private AI for professionals, anonymising AI use with local models such as Rizzo PII, installing local AI solutions, decision models such as JEV and Rizzo Flow.
- Working with AI for professionals, prompt, context, harness and loop engineering, LLM wikis, RAG and process automation.

## Profiles
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sergio-pappagallo/
- ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0005-5960-636X
- ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Sergio-Pappagallo
- Academia.edu: https://unilink.academia.edu/SergioPappagallo
- PhilPeople: https://philpeople.org/profiles/sergio-pappagallo
- Zenodo: https://zenodo.org/search?q=metadata.creators.person_or_org.identifiers.identifier%3A%220009-0005-5960-636X%22
- OpenAIRE: https://explore.openaire.eu/search/find/research-outcomes?fv0=0009-0005-5960-636X&f0=q
- Europass: https://europa.eu/europass/eportfolio/api/eprofile/shared-profile/sergio-pappagallo/bdc8f07c-87ef-44c9-ab06-0885e707faf0?view=html