Rome, 27 April 2020 - Fruit and vegetables, milk and cheese, meat but also oil and cereals and the entire Italian agri-food industry are, together with the catering sector, at the center of the economic storm unleashed by the Coronavirus epidemic. Between rising and falling prices, harvest and stock management, export performance and declining incomes, the agri-food sector faces the crisis and looks to the recovery of activities in phase 2.
Thursday 30 April at 03:00 pm an online round table with the most authoritative voices of the Italian agri-food sector is the opportunity that theUniversità Campus Bio-Medico di Roma offers to all operators, but also to teachers and students, for take stock of the situation and learn about the challenges of the moment analyzing the issues from a technical, regulatory, institutional and economic policy point of view.
“The food sector and the challenge of the post-emergency Covid19” is the online appointment in which they will participate Filippo Gallinella, President of the Agriculture Commission of the Chamber of Deputies, Luca Bianchi, director of Svimez, Annalisa Zezza of the Create, Luigi Forget me, member of the Board of Directors of the ICE Agency for the promotion abroad and the internationalization of Italian companies, Pierluigi Sassi, Mauro Castelli, Andrea Camaiora. The Rector of the University introduced the workUniversità Campus Bio-Medico di Roma Raffaele Calabrò, Prof Laura De Gara, Dean of the Departmental Faculty of Science and Technology for Man and the Environment and the professors Emanuele Marconi e Francesco Bruno.
The online roundtable, organized by Departmental Faculty of Science and Technology for Man and the Environment ofUniversità Campus Bio-Medico di Roma will be accessible for free on the Zoom platform. It is possible to register for the event through the link https://bit.ly/3bBIRq2. The future prospects of the food and nutrition sector will be explored from a technical, regulatory, institutional and economic policy point of view.
THEUniversità Campus Bio-Medico di Roma is active in research in the food and nutrition fields and works alongside companies to train expert nutritionists, technologists and food chain managers able to provide innovative solutions and help fill the gap in skills and training courses lamented by the business world in one of the sectors most relevant of the Italian economy and of the "made in Italy".
In recent years, with the birth of the new degree course in Food science and technology and supply chain management and the establishment of the faculty of Sciences and technologies for man and the environment theUniversità Campus Bio-Medico di Roma has further strengthened its training offer in the food science sectors, entering into research and scientific consultancy topics of interest for the development and technological innovation of companies in the agri-food and agro-industrial sector, also from a sustainability perspective environmental.
