►General compulsory training for all PhD students

• Applied statistics  - Prof. Riccardo Negrini (16 h) - Year 1
• Research Ethics and Epistemology - Prof. Mariachiara Tallacchini (8 h) -  Year 1
• Public speaking - Prof. Federica Missaglia (15 h) - Year 1
• Environmental ethics and the Christian proposal - Prof. Don Roberto Maier (8 h) - Year 3
• Three minutes thesis - Prof. John Laurence Dennis (9 h) - Year 3
• Food Consumer Psychology - Prof. Guendalina Graffigna (8 h) -  Year 3

► General compulsory training for PhD students - Economic-Legal Area

• Sustainable Animal Production - Prof. Paolo Ajmone Marsan (8 h) -  Year 2
• Sustainable Crop Production - Dr. Andrea Fiorini (8 h) - Year 2
• Food Technologies and Sustainability - Dr. Gianluca Giuberti (8 h) - Year 2

►General compulsory training for PhD students -  Biological-Agricultural Area

• Accounting tools for management - Dr. Ilaria Galavotti (8 h) - Year 1 
• European Food Law and policy -  Dr. Beatrice La Porta (8 h) - Year 2
• Sustainability Management - Dr. Riccardo Torelli (8 h) - Year 3

ENGLISH SKILLS

• English course - Prof. Alessandra Radicchi (45 h) 
• Academic English Skills - Prof. Alessandra Radicchi (30 h) 

SPECIFIC TRAINING AT STUDENT'S CHOICE

Each postgraduate, together with their tutor, will draft a personal training plan for an additional 32 training hours selected from the courses offered. The courses require a minimum of 3 participants in order to be held.

• Advanced methods for agri-food data analysis - Prof. Riccardo Negrini (8 h)
• Bees, beekeeping and pollination - Dr. Ilaria Negri (8 h) - not activated
• Beneficial microorganisms in the agri-food system - Prof. Edoardo Puglisi (8 h)
• Business organisation and human resource management - Prof. Francesco Virili (8 h)
• Carbon farming & agricultural carbon credits - Dr. Andrea Ferrarini (8 h)
• Climate Change: focus on perennial crops - Dr. Sergio Tombesi (8 h)
• Development of Decision Support Systems (DSSs) for sustainable agriculture - Prof. Tito Caffi (8 h)
• Digitalization, rural development and innovation in agriculture - Prof. Matteo Gatti (8 h) 
• Genetic modification and assisted evolution technologies in pland breeding - Prof. Matteo Busconi (8 h)
• Internazionalisation process of higher education: role and tasks for academics and young researcers - Prof. Tito Caffi (8 ore)
• Introduction to application of system dynamics modeling approach in biological Science - Prof. Antonio Gallo (8 h)
• Introduction to epigenetics and epigenomics - Prof. Paolo Ajmone Marsan (8 h)
• Introduction to the Italian tax system in agriculture - Dr. Andrea Purpura (8 h) - not activated
• Methods to analyse molecular data on agricultural biodiversity - Dr. Licia Colli (8 h)
• Microbes in the agri-food chain: emerging risk - Dr. Claudia Cortimiglia (8 h)
• Microbes in the agri-food chain: their positive roles - Dr. Alessandra Fontana (8 h)
• One Health: Ecosystems humans health and food -  Prof. Daniele Generali (16 h) 
• Proteomics and metabolomics in the agro-food chain - Dr. Gabriele Rocchetti (8 h)
• Theory, formulation and practical examples of system thinking applied in modeling of complex biological and environmental system - Prof. Antonio Gallo (8 h)
• Towards Big Data. Informatics tools for data manipulation (course I) - Dr. Alessandra Stella (8 h)
• Towards Big Data. Informatics tools for data manipulation (course II) - Dr. Alessandra Stella (8 h)
• Use and Interation of AI in Agrisystem -  Dr. Fabrizio Capocasale (8 ore)
• Writing research project and scientific papers - Prof. John Williams (8 h)