After graduating with honours in Ancient History, Silvia was herself part of a startup developing its own business ideas, where she became passionate about business creation.
Since 2008, she has been part of ART-ER's Startup Unit, coordinating training, team-building and strategic consulting activities for startups involved in business incubation and within European business creation projects.
Since 2011, she has coordinated the creation and development of new EmiliaRomagnaStartUp activities. She is also involved with the scouting of business ideas, the relationship with the startup network, and organisation and communication at trade shows and events. Since 2016 she’s part of the team that coordinates Climate-KIC Startup Accelerator Italy and is a tutor at Le Serre di ART-ER.
Since 2018 she is in charge of the organization of the Start Cup Emilia-Romagna, the regional business idea competition.