Antonella Giacosa has been an EFL teacher at secondary schools for over 20 years and an ELT lecturer at the foreign language department in Turin since 2017. She is an educational linguist interested in innovative, intercultural and transdisciplinary approaches in ELT. She is part of research teams working on the internationalisation and innovation of the curriculum at her school and university institutes in Italy and abroad. She is a reviewer for articles on distance learning in various scientific journals and has published several articles on emergency distance learning during the COVID-19 pandemic.