Giannino Melotti has a PhD and is an Associate Prof. in Social Psychology. His main research interests concern the study of social representations and risk and protective factors in everyday life in adolescence. Another topic of his interest is the evaluation of outdoor educational and training experiential activities (nature-based). Since 2017, he has been the scientist responsible for the CEFEO (Research Center on Outdoor and Experiential Education and Training) at the Department of Educational Sciences ‘Giovanni Maria Bertin’, EDU, University of Bologna.