PARMA (ITALPRESS) – Food emergencies, climate change, supply chain waste, and the challenges of AI and innovative technology were the focus of the Italian-led G7 agriculture meeting just concluded in Sicily. The World Greats’ final document underscores the need for common policies and increasingly expert figures capable of directing, regulating and managing the key sector of global development and sustainability: food. The Master’s Degree Course in English “Global food law: sustainability challenges and innovation” that opens these days at the University of Parma (enrollment remains open until October 18) also moves on these logics and has precisely the objective, for the first time in Italy, to train jurists and experts in the right to food, through a two-year professionalizing and multidisciplinary course between economics, law, communication, sustainability and technology. The project, which earned Unipr recognition as Department of Excellence 2023-2027. Food For Future (this is the name chosen for the project by the University of Parma), aimed at training specialized professionals in the field of food & beverage, with particular attention to the issues of food sustainability, promotion and protection of innovation, as well as food safety and food security, sees a first year with a more strictly university structure – although conducted with innovative teaching methodologies, which provide a strong interactivity between teachers and learners – and the second with the possibility of coming into contact with the world of work and business in a more direct way, through curricular internships at the most important companies active in the agri-food sector. For the city that Unesco has designated Creative City for Gastronomy and where some of the largest Italian companies in the sector operate, this is a new challenge, so as to bridge the educational gap on these issues compared to other major foreign universities. Among the professors called upon to give life to the Course, with the scientific responsibility of Professor Lucia Scaffardi, full professor of Comparative Public Law in Unipr and with an advisory board that can count on the recognized experience of Sumantra Ray, Aeyel Gross, Michela Petronio and Pierluigi Petrillo, also visiting professor Bernd van der Meulen, authentic authority on food law and numerous experts in food law, animal welfare, climate change and food waste and agritech.
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