Webmaster: Fabio Ferrarini - Copyright Fabio e Fulvio Ferrarini 2007-2011 “A bridge betwn Italy and central-eastern Europe” “Einecke zwischen Italien und Mittel-Ost Europa” “Un ponte tra l’Italia e l’Europa centro-orientale” Our way so far Activities and targets Our profiles Fabio Ferrarini Fulvio Ferrarini “A bridge between Italy and central-eastern Europe” In 2007 Fulvio and Fabio Ferrarini, father and son, decided to create a cultural website in order to connect Milan to central-eastern Europe. They collected Fabio’s travel experiences and a lot of suggestions coming from their friends who shared the same love and passion for these wonderful places. Their project grew up and developed also thanks to the collaboration with an on-line cultural magazine “Puntoelinea” (www.puntoelineamagazine.it) and an art gallery “Galleria d’Arte Eustachi”, both located in Milan. Together they organized local and national cultural events based on historical and artistical topics (they joined three editions of the so-called “Giornata del Contemporaneo” created by “AMACI”). Among the most important events, they created a “bridge” between Milan and Mitteleurope (”Milano e la Mitteleuropa. Connessione remota”) which concerns the history of Milan during Absburgic period until the so-called “Risorgimento”, “Natale sotti i lampioni” which is a Christmas event dedicated to the history of Munich, Milan and Berlin in 1930 and finally a good project in order to publish a book: “Metropolitanìa” written by Fabio Ferrarini and Daniele Leone. The positive result of this project let us to obtain the publication of “Metropolitanìa” thanks to our publisher “Runde Taarn Edizioni” and “Metropolitanìa” joined the so-called “Fiera del Libro di Torino”, the most important Italian cultural event dedicated to literature and divulgation. In the following years, Fabio led on his work in order to keep in contact Milan and Berlin, so at the beginning of 2011, he improved his knowledge about air-raid protection in the metropolitan areas of Milan and Berlin: this particular matter became the topic of his graduation thesis (Master degree in Contemporary history). Now it’s time to change our “skin”: our website transforms itself becoming a specialized website of contemporary history, which is also able to suggest historical trips concerning Milan, Berlin, Trieste and many more places all over central-eastern Europe. “Il Caffè orientale” promotes and organises cultural events in order to improve and spread the knowledge about central-eastern Europe. Our activity wants to enlarge the communication among persons, organisations and institutions, in Italy and all over the world in order to share informations and experiences. We would like to create a common platform of knowlwdge about this large geographical area. “Il Caffè Orientale”, in fact, is a “bridge” which connects Italy to every corner of the planet so that everyone (student, traveller, researcher and so on) could find good means of divulgation, education and cultural development. Fabio Ferrarini was born in Monfalcone (Italy), March 2nd 1983. In 2006 he graduates in Law (Three-years Degree) at the public University of Milano “Università degli Studi di Milano” after writing a thesis about comparative law entitled “History involves comparison”, a comparison between the Italian civil law system and the Anglo-American  common law system according to Gino Gorla and Frederic Maitland’s thought. From 2007 to 2009 he works at “Fondazione Biblioteca Europea di Informazione e Cultura (BEIC)” at Professor Antonio Padoa Schioppa’s Secretariat. In 2007, together with Fulvio Ferrarini, he founds the internet cultural website called www.ilcaffeorientale.com which is dedicated to Central-Eastern Europe. From 2008 to 2010 he promotes cultural events about historical and artistical topics at the Galleria d’Arte Eustachi (Art Gallery located in Milan, Italy) like PR and webmaster. In 2011 he graduates in Contemporary History (Master Degree) at the public University of Milan “Università degli Studi di Milano” after writing a thesis about air-raid shelters in Milan and Berlin during the Second World War. Actually he lives and works in Berlin. Fulvio Ferrarini was born in Milano in 1958. After attending the Faculty of Law at the Public University of Milan (Università degli Studi di Milano), in 1983 he starts to work like commercial consultant. From 1987 to 1998 he works like insurance man in Milano and in the meanwhile he teaches marketing, welfare and communication for some private vocational training schools in Milan. From 1999 he works like freelance insurance man. From 2005 he collaborates with Fabio Ferrarini promoting and organising cultural events about historical and artistical topics. In 2007, together with Fabio Ferrarini he founds the cultural website called “www.ilcaffeorientale.com”