Agro-Food System

Compulsory courses for all PhD students

• Business planning: principles and tools - Dr. Ilaria Galavotti (8 hours) - 1st year
• Writing research project and scientific papers - Prof. John Williams (8 hours)- 1st year
• Public Speaking - Prof. John Williams (8 hours)- 1st year
• Environmental ethics and the Christian proposal - Prof. Don Roberto Maier (6 hours) - 1st year
• European Food Law and policy -  Dr. Beatrice La Porta (8 hours) - 1st year
• Sustainable Animal Production - Prof. Paolo Ajmone Marsan - Dr. Luca Cattaneo (8 hours) - 2nd year
• Sustainable Crop Production - Dr. Andrea Fiorini (8 hours) - 2nd year

• Food Technologies and Sustainability - Dr. Gianluca Giuberti (8 hours) - 2nd year
• Three minutes thesis - Prof. John Laurence Dennis (12 hours) - 3rd year
• Sustainability Management - Dr. Cosa Marcello (8 hours) - 3rd year

ENGLISH SKILLS

• Basic English course - (45 hours)
• Academic English course - Prof Francesca o'Kane - (30 hours)

ELECTIVE LINE-UP

To complete the training, each PhD student, in agreement with the tutors, must prepare an ad hoc training plan that includes at least 32 hours chosen from the courses proposed below. The courses will be activated with a minimum of 4 participants.

Topics  "statistics and big-data"

• Applied statistics  - Prof. Riccardo Negrini (16 hours) COURSE NOT ACTIVATED
• Advanced methods for agri-food data analysis - Prof. Riccardo Negrini  - (8 hours)
• Towards Big Data. Informatics tools for data manipulation (course I) - Dr. Marco Milanesi (8 hours)
• Towards Big Data. Informatics tools for data manipulation (course II) - Dr. Filippo Biscarini  (8 hours)

Theme "Advanced biotechnologies"

• Genetic modification and assisted evolution technologies in plant breeding - Prof.

• Introduction to epigenetics and epigenomics - Prof. Paolo Ajmone Marsan (8 hours) COURSE NOT ACTIVATED
• Methods to analyse molecular data on agricultural biodiversity - Prof. Licia Colli (8 hours) COURSE NOT ACTIVATED
• Proteomics and metabolomics in the agro-food chain - Dr. Gabriele Rocchetti (8 hours)

• "One Health" theme

  • Bees, beekeeping and pollination -Dr. Ilaria Blacks (8 hours) COURSE NOT ACTIVATED
  • Carbon farming & agricultural carbon credits - Dr. Andrea Ferrarini (8 hours)
  • Climate Change: focus on perennial crops - Prof. Sergio Tombesi (8 hours) COURSE NOT ACTIVATED
  • One Health: Ecosystems humans health and food -  Prof. Daniele Generali (16 hours)
  • The role of human nutritionin shaping sustainable food system - Prof. Margherita Dall'Asta (8 hours)

  Theme "The micro word"

  • Beneficial microorganisms in the agri-food system - Prof. Edoardo Puglisi (8 hours) COURSE NOT ACTIVATED
  • Microbes in the agri-food chain: emerging risk - Dr.  Claudia Cortimiglia (8 hours) COURSE NOT ACTIVATED
  • Microbial applications in modern food biotechnology - Prof. Vania Patrone (8 hours) COURSE NOT ACTIVATED

  Theme "Data driven modelling in agriculture"

  • Development of Decision Support Systems (DSSs) for sustainable agriculture - Prof. Tito Caffi (8 hours)
  • Sustainable Food Production and the Environment - Dr. Federico Froldi (8 hours)
  • Digitalization, rural development and innovation in agriculture - Prof. Matteo Gatti (8 hours) COURSE NOT ACTIVATED

  Theme "Management and Legislation"

  • Business organisation and human resource management - Prof.
  Francesco Virili (8 hours) COURSE NOT ACTIVATED
• Introduction to the Italian tax system in agriculture - Dr. Andrea Purpura (8 hours) COURSE NOT ACTIVATED
• Agricultural Business law and legislation - Dr. Lorenzo Paolo Botti (8 hours) COURSE NOT ACTIVATED

• Theme "Research-aid tools"

  • Advanced mehods for literature analysis: bibliometrics, computational reviews and generative AI tools - Prof. Michele Cipriano, Dr. Marco Smacchia (12 hours)
  • Use of Artificial Intelligence in Research - Dr. Fabrizio Capocasale (12 hours)

  Topic "Strategic Communication"

  • Communication for PhD students -  (8 hours)
  • Food Consumer Psychology  - Prof. Guendalina Gaffigna (8 hours) COURSE NOT ACTIVATED