About · Gianluca Perdicaro
My best project is the one I haven't built yet.

Most universities bring together an academic lead, a business lead and a marketing lead, then ask them to agree. I have been all three: for almost twenty years, from Italy to the Americas, I’ve founded schools, designed, managed and taught transnational degrees, and grown and marketed them. That is why I can speak each one’s language, sit between partners and make the whole thing work.

Today I advise on transnational education partnerships, develop frameworks for global learning, and write University Ecosystems, a newsletter on the future of the university.

Photo by Oscar David Peña Acosta
The path

One partnership at a time.

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2026

University Ecosystems

I launched my newsletter and its manifesto: seven principles for a future university built by alliances.

2025

Frameworks

I started researching and publishing my own frameworks, beginning with the Sustainable Global Learning Ecosystem.

2024

Luigi Bon Foundation

Transnational Education Partnerships Consultant

One of Italy’s oldest cultural foundations, active since 1896, bringing education, the arts and community life together under one roof.

2023June

Voices of the Americas Heritage Institute

Founder and President

The first and only U.S. organization dedicated to preserving and promoting traditional singing of the Americas.

2018

Building partnerships that outlive me

Handover of UWS Music Italy to Antonello, my former student. The partnership kept running and growing without me.

Gianluca Perdicaro with Antonello, who later led UWS Music Italy
2018

Rome Business School

Transnational Education Partnerships Consultant

One of Italy’s leading business schools, training global leaders to manage companies around the world.

2017

University of the West of Scotland

Associate Lecturer

Teaching at the University of the West of Scotland, the partner behind our degrees in Italy.

Gianluca Perdicaro with colleagues and students at the University of the West of Scotland
2016

European School of Economics

Transnational Education Partnerships Consultant

A private college of higher education “without borders”, with centers in London, Rome, Milan, Florence and Madrid.

2014April

UWS Music Italy

Founder, Managing Director and Dean

The first UK-accredited music master’s programs in Italy, supported by 21 schools and chosen by thousands of students over the years.

Study abroad, both ways

Students from Roma Contemporary Music College at Glasgow City Chambers
Five Nations Festival, Glasgow City Chambers
Study abroad exchange at the University of the West of Scotland
Study abroad at the University of the West of Scotland
2013

Roma Contemporary Music College

Dean and CMO

By building a partnership with the University of the West of Scotland, I gave Italy its first UK master’s in Music & Creative Economy.

Gianluca Perdicaro with the Chancellor, the Assistant Dean and the Principal of the University of the West of Scotland
From left: Chancellor Lady Elish Angiolini, Assistant Dean Anne Gifford, me, and Principal and Vice-Chancellor Prof. C. Mahoney, University of the West of Scotland
2010

Italy’s first UK-accredited BA (Hons) in Modern Music

Program Leader and Associate Lecturer

A UK music degree, designed and taught in Rome, so students no longer had to leave Italy to earn one.

2007May 12

Roma Rock School

Co-Founder, CEO and Dean

My first venture: a school that helped Italian musicians turn their talent into a career.

Moments

Along the way.

With David Scott and Anne Gifford
With David Scott, Head of Arts & Media, and Anne Gifford, Assistant Dean, University of the West of Scotland
With Phil Agbeko at the AIEA Annual Conference
With Phil Agbeko, CEO of Hilltop Global Group, at the AIEA Annual Conference
With Anna Salvini at the European School of Economics in Florence
With Anna Salvini, Director of the European School of Economics, Florence
With the JCI World President
With Chiara Milani, JCI World President
With Stephanie Doscher at the AIEA Annual Conference
With Stephanie Doscher at the AIEA Annual Conference
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