Mattia Zeba is a Researcher at the Institute for Minority Rights of Eurac Research in Bolzano/Bozen (Italy). He holds a PhD in International Studies (University of Trento) and MAs in Modern Languages (University of Padua) and International Relation (University of Trento), jointly with a Graduate Diploma in Transnational Governance (SantʼAnna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa). His main research interests include language rights, multilingualism and linguistic diversity, new minorities and heritage languages, unrecognized 'regional languages', language contestedness, la nguage variation and hybrid language practices, as well as civic education.