Marco Lopriore

Marco Lopriore is a Senior Lecturer on Structural Funds and the European Social Fund at the European Institute of Public Administration in Maastricht. Before joining EIPA, Mr Lopriore was a Senior Adviser at Unioncamere (1995-2007) where he also held various other positions. He worked as an expert for the European Commission's DG Information Society (1992-1995), the European Economic and Social Committee, and the SME Union Group of the European Parliament. He also worked as a trainer for the Eurochambres Academy and for the New Europe College in Bucharest and as a teacher of European studies in the Postgraduate Master's programme of the Catholic University of San Antonio of Murcia. Mr Lopriore holds Master's degrees from the Free University of Amsterdam and from the University of Cagliari and was a researcher at the Economic and Social Institute of Amsterdam.

European Social Fund (ESF); Lisbon Agenda; enterprise policy and SME aspects of the Structural Funds.