Donato Di Bartolomeo is Senior Programme Manager at the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence. In the last 15 years, he has been working on research and capacity-building projects in the field of social protection, education, and minority groups in the MENA region and Latin America. In 2023 he co-directed the documentary ‘Min Ana’, which follows stories of radicalisation, faith, resilience and self-consciousness, in the framework of the EC-funded project PREVEX (‘Preventing violent extremism in the Balkans and the MENA: strengthening resilience in enabling environments’).