The Minister of Education visits theUniversità Campus Bio-Medico di Roma: the new degree course in food supply chain management is underway
13 June 2019 - "The new degree course in Food Science and Technology and Supply Chain Management manages to create a system between the various disciplines in a field where there is a real need for new professions to develop a new economy". This was stated by the Minister of Education, University and Research Marco Bussetti visiting today atUniversità Campus Bio-Medico di Roma, regarding the imminent launch of a new course of study at the Roman University.
"Our training system will have to become increasingly multidisciplinary, dynamic and therefore the intervention of the various sciences will be necessary to improve the skills of our students", reiterated the minister Bussetti, specifying how the path offered by theCampus Bio-Medico University of Rome can represent a way for the creation of modern profiles able to satisfy the new needs of the labor market. “I would like to see a doctor who also has a degree in philosophy or engineering. In part, you are already doing it by including various disciplines in your study programme, without neglecting the anthropological, cultural and humanistic aspects”.
During the visit, the Rector Prof. Raffaele Calabrò presented the university to the minister, which today has 2000 students, 400 researchers and 48 research units, recalling how theUniversità Campus Bio-Medico di Roma "you have always combined the medical reality with the study of engineering and robotics, and being a young university, we can afford to build a large number of projects characterized by a multidisciplinary approach".
From this point of view, future graduates in Food Science and Technology and Supply Chain Management will be food specialists and experts in food production, transformation, distribution and marketing processes. A path that fully responds to the requests of agri-food chain managers, who are required to have the ability to manage the processes of the entire food industry production chain, tools that are necessary today to combine the needs of globalization with the enhancement of Made in Italy in the world .
