Valentina Pagani holds a PhD from the University of Milan-Bicocca, Department of Human Sciences for Education “R. Massa”. She is assistant lecturer at the University of Milan-Bicocca, and she worked in quality of research-assistant in the collaborative project CARE (Curriculum Quality Analysis and Impact Review of European ECEC). Her research interests deal with Intercultural Education, qualitative and quantitative research methodologies in education, evaluation of school quality, and student voice studies.