Policy Leader Fellow
Florence School of Transnational Governance
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Virginia Fiume is a nonviolent activist and, since 2019, the cofounder of the citizens' movement EUMANS alongside the Italian former MEP Marco Cappato. In March 2022, she was elected co-president in Warsaw, Poland, where she coordinated "The Open Congress for Sustainable Peace, Democracy and Freedom" during the first weeks of the war in Ukraine.Her project "Syndicating Insurgent Europeans" upon she will work during her time as a Policy Leader Fellow focuses on the development of a European political-digital ecosystem based on nonviolence praxis and participatory democracy to politicise the European Public Sphere ahead of the European Elections 2024. In the past four years, she coordinated the European Citizens Initiative "stopglobalwarming.eu - A price on carbon to fight climate change" and many popular and nonviolent initiatives to strengthen democracy stemming from the process of the Conference on the Future of Europe with the organisations Science for Democracy and EUMANS and the coalition Citizens Take Over Europe.Over the summer 2021, she was among 16.000 activists that collected 1,2 million signatures for the Referendum for legalisation of Euthanasia in Italy. Her previous professional experience is in journalism and digital media in London, Canada and the Middle East.