Healthy nutrition and sustainable food: signed agreement between CREA and UCBM

New research, training and experimentation objectives

29 April 2021 - Nutrition and advanced food research with a view to sustainable development, ecological transition and global health. These are the aspects on which the scientific and didactic collaboration between CREA and yours is focused Food and Nutrition Research Center and theUniversità Campus Bio-Medico di Roma in the university environment and in research projects, formalized by the framework collaboration agreement signed by Carlo Gaudio, President CREA and from Raffaele Calabrò, Rector Ucbm at theUniversità Campus Bio-Medico di Roma.

The three-year agreement will allow the two institutions to strengthen the existing collaboration and to give life to joint projects, particularly in the degree courses in Human Nutrition Sciences and in Food Science and Technology and supply chain management.

"It is the first framework agreement entered into between CREA and a university since the establishment of the new CDA, which in its objectives follows the virtuous model of exchange between research, experimentation and training. It will serve to deepen existing scientific synergies, thus consolidating a knowledge system based on quality research, consistent with global challenges and characterized by a multidisciplinary approach to the issue of sustainability. A challenge for the entire agri-food sector, in which the CREA scientific community intends to actively engage"Said Carlo Joy, President of CREA.

"Today is an important day - underlined the Rector of the Campus Raffaele Calabrò - because the collaboration between CREA e UCBM could mean growth in the quality of research over the years, study opportunities for our students, projects in agrifood and the circular economy in a symbiosis that will certainly lead to mutual growth".

"Our collaboration - he recalled Laura De Gara, Dean of the Departmental Faculty of Science and Technology for Man and the Environment and member of the Scientific Council of CREA - has a history made up of nationally and internationally renowned CREA researchers who have been bringing their experience to our students for years and which from today will be able to develop even more fruitfully, in particular, in the fields of nutrition and in that of food technologies, as well as in the bioeconomy sector, very important for studies in the circular economy and for sustainability in food production. I am convinced that this agreement will bear important fruit also in the context of the third mission".