Sylvia is one of the three co-founders of FORMA.Azione, a consulting company based in Perugia (Italy), specialised in applying for public funds, mainly addressing the education and training sector, and societal challenges. She has more than 30 years of expertise in European projects design and coordination, focused on European networks and strategic cooperation partnerships.

Gender Equality policies in the labour market is her favourite field of work, giving the opportunity to always mainstream gender in designing, implementing, and assessing several projects and actions, mainly targeting educators, teachers and trainers, guidance experts, HR, and Diversity, Equity, and inclusion managers. Since 2016, she has been working in Media and Information Literacy, by developing and further applying the gender mainstreaming approach, thus contrasting gendered disinformation and online harassment and Gender-Based Violence.

As a mother of two sons aged 28 and 26, she insists she had the opportunity to practice and learn relevant transversal skills that she can invest in her job on a daily basis.