Dr. Monica Hunsberger is a registered dietitian and public health nutrition epidemiologist. She was recently an associate professor and researcher at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden where she teaches in the Department of Public Health Epidemiology and Social Medicine. She now lives in Bologna, where she is wrapping up…
Dr. Matthew Lange joined the Food Innovation Summer School from California where he is a professor at UC Davis in the Department of Food Science and Technology. His courses cover a broad spectrum of food-related topics, including product development, health technologies and let’s not forget, beer making. With a Ph.D….
Tomorrow Agrogeneration will come to Catania. A meeting focused on revisiting and inviting the world to Italy, ready for action with ideas and projects to feed the planet.A global event that will highlight the role and the essence of Italy; a confluence between knowledge and cultures. Lectures , conferences ,…
FFI is launching a second edition of the Hackathon series of Feeding Fair which was a remarkable success during the Milan Expo 2015 thanks to the participation of His Excellency Minister Maurizio Martina, Google, Federalimentare, Upday and action contre la faim and many other partners. This year, with a…
Investing in agriculture does not mean looking back at the past, rather interpreting the future with new tools. Italy must take the lead in being the beacon of European agri-food renewal, safeguarding all the valued knowledge created and disseminated thanks to Expo 2015. The increase in the number of farms,…
Dr. Steve Gedeon joined the Food Innovation Summer School Mediterraneo for two days of seminars surrounding entrepreneurship and business skills. Currently an Associate Professor at the Entrepreneur Institute at Ryerson University in Canada, Dr. Gedeon came to the entrepreneurship world after various degrees and over ten years of work experience…
Action-oriented entrepreneurs, industry players, investors, and representatives from leading global food and ag innovation hubs will gather at Food IT: Solution Harvest; through knowledge sharing sessions and collaborative exercises they will look at how information technology can address challenges in farming and ranching, improve food literacy in food service and…
SMAU is a platform to bring together innovators, entrepreneurs, companies and institutions to share experiences and best practices on Information & Communications Technology. It takes the form of a roadshow, going through Italy for a visionary journey where innovative minds have the opportunity to meet and get to know each…
For a student, there’s nothing quite like the thrill of settling in for a long, hot, lazy summer after months of hard work. Or is there? The Future Food Institute’s Summer School Mediterraneo might just take the cake for the best international adventure over this year’s summer break. The program…
When we decided to apply to YES! BCFN we were in Italy. It was summer and what we had in mind was only a dream. Now, exactly two years from that point in July 2014 I can look back and see something. I see a bunch of experiences, hundreds of…