In the past years I actively participate in several International Conferences and meetings:

Invited Speaker:

11) M.Mascherini and S.Tarantola - Composite Indicators: development and Guidance" - EUSTAT International Statistical seminars, Bilbao(ES) 2009

10) M.Mascherini– ―Good Practices in Building Composite Indicators: The Active Citienship Composite Indicator‖. University of London, London (UK) 2009

9) M.Mascherini and B.Hoskins– ―The Characterization of Active Citizenship in Europe‖ Proceedings of the Eurostat International Conference on New Technologies and Techniques in Statistics. Bruxelles (Belgium) 2009

8) M.Mascherini – ―Towards a set of composite indicator to measure the Flexicurity concept: the dimension of Life Long Learning Composite Indicator‖ – Employment Committee meeting – the indicator group. Bruxelles (Belgium) 2008

7) M.Mascherini – ―Building Composite Indicators in Social Science‖ – Dipartimento di Statistica ―G.Parenti‖ – Universita’ degli Studi di Firenze, Firenze, (Italy) 2008

6) M.Mascherini – Developing Time Series Composite indicators – International Meeting on Improving the European Innovation Scoreboard methodology - PROINNO. Bruxelles (Belgium) - 2008

5) M.Mascherini – Building and Using composite indicators – Summer School on Developing Sustainable Tourism. L’Asinara (Italy) - 2008

4) M.Mascherini - The development and use of composite indicators – West Finland Association European Office, Bruxelles(Belgium) - 2007

3) M.Mascherini – ―Using Social indicator to measure Active Citizenship in Europe‖ – Dipartimento di Statistica ―G.Parenti‖ – Universita’ degli Studi di Firenze, Firenze, (Italy) 2007

2) S.Tarantola, M.Mascherini, M.Saisana, J.Johesinghaus – ―Composite Indicators: Development and Guidance‖ – Polo delle Scienze Sociali, Universita’ degli Studi di Firenze, Firenze, (Italy) 2007.

1) M. Mascherini - A short tutorial on learning Bayesian Networks from data using R. XLIX SIGA Annual Congress, Potenza, September 2005.

Presentation and Talks:

21) M.Mascherini and B.Hoskins ―Growing cohesive societies: The Characterization of Active Citizenship in Europe‖ ––Eurostat International Conference on New Technologies and Techniques in Statistics –Bruxelles (Belgium) 2009.

20) M.Mascherini – ―The Characterization of Active Citizenship in Europe‖ – Mediterranean Conference on Social Sciences – Gozo (Malta), 2009.

19) M. Mascherini,– ―Learning Bayesian Networks representing influence relations among genes‖ – IEEE International Conference on Computational Intelligence on Control, Modelling and Automation. Vienna (Austria), 2008

18) M. Mascherini, F.Frascati and F.M. Stefanini – ―Building MASTINO: Learning Bayesian Networks Using R‖ – COMPSTAT International Conference on Computational Statistics. Porto (Portugal), 2008

17) M. Mascherini, B.Hoskins – ―Building a Composite Indicator to measure Active Citizenship in Europe‖ – 3MC International Conference on Survey Methods in Multicultural, Multinational and Multiregional contexts. Berlin (Germany), 2008

16) M. Mascherini, D. Vidoni – ―La partecipazione sociale in Europa: il caso dell’Europa Mediterranea‖ –XLIV Riunione Scientifica della Socita Italiana di Economia, Demografia e Statistica. Bari (Italy), 2008

15) M. Mascherini, M. Nardo, D. Vidoni – ―Measuring Social Cohesion in Europe‖ –International Conference on Quality of Life: from QOL concepts to QOL measures. San Diego (U.S.A.), 2007

14) M.Mascherini, A.Saltelli, D.Vidoni - ―Participation in Europe: one size fits none‖ - International Conference on Quality of Life: from QOL concepts to QOL measures. San Diego (U.S.A.), 2007

13) M.Mascherini and F.M. Stefanini - ―Using weak prior information on structures to learn Bayesian Networks‖. 11th International Conference on Knowledge –Based and Intelligence information & Engineering Systems. Vietri sul Mare, (Italy), 2007

12) M.Canoy, F.Lerais, M.Mascherini, A.Saltelli, D.Vidoni - ―The importance of social reality for Europe's economy an application to civil participation‖ - Second OECD World Forum on "Statistics, Knowledge and Policy, Istanbul (Turkey) 2007

11) M. Mascherini, M. Nardo, D. Vidoni – ―Measuring Social Cohesion in Europe‖ – The European Social Survey research Association International Conference, Prague (Czech Republic), 2007

10) B. Hoskins and M. Mascherini – ―Indicators for Active Citizenship‖ – Nordic Perspectives of Lifelong Learning in the New Europe, Turku (Finland), 2007

9) M.Mascherini – ―Retrieving expert opinion on weights for the Active Citizenship Composite Indicator‖ - 4th meeting of the Active Citizenship Research Network. Council of Europe, Strasbourg(France), 2007

8) M.Mascherini and B.Hoskins– ―Measuring Active Citizenship in Europe‖ – 3rd meeting of the Active Citizenship Research Network. Directorate Generale Education and Culture, European Commission, Bruxelles(Belgium), 2007

7) M.Mascherini and B.Hoskins– ―Toward a composite indicator to measure Active Citizenship in Europe‖ – JRC IPSC institue meeting with the Vice President of the European Parliament, Mr. M.Mauro (PPE) - European Commission, Ispra(Italy), 2007

6) M.Mascherini - ―MASTINO: A Suite of R Functions to learn Bayesian Networks from data‖ –, - The UseR! International Conference of R Users, Vienna(Austria), 2006.

5) M. Mascherini and F.M. Stefanini – ―M-GA: A Genetic Algorithm to Search for The Best Conditional Gaussian Bayesian Network‖. IEEE International Conference on Computational Intelligence for Modelling, Control and Automation, Vienna (Austria), November 2005;

4) M. Mascherini and F.M. Stefanini – ―Encoding Structural Prior Information to Learn Bayesian Networks.‖ Convegno Finale Prin 2005 - Reti Bayesiane e Causalità, Florence, November 2005

3) M. Mascherini – Using Prior Information to Bias Structural Learning of Bayesian Networks. Workshop of the Machine Intelligence Group of Aalborg Univesity, Aalborg, Denmark, June 2005.

2) M. Mascherini – Towards a Bayesian Networks Approach to Normalize Microarray data. Workshop of the Machine Intelligence Group of Aalborg Univesity, Aalborg, Denmark, March 2005.

1) F.M. Stefanini and M. Mascherini - Reti Bayesiane per la normalizzazione di esperimenti microarray. Convegno Intermedio Prin2003 - Reti Bayesiane e Causalità, Genova, December 2004