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- Doctoral School on the Agro-Food System
- Academic Programs
- Didactics
- Courses - cycle 39
Courses - cycle 39
►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)