UNIVERSITY OF TURIN

UNIVERSITY OF TURIN

UNIVERSITY OF TURIN

UNITO and its Incubator (2i3t) is one of the major Universities in Europe in the field of Bioeconomy and has selected bioeconomy and circular economy as key areas for research and education for their strategic repercussions at socio-economic level and disruptive innovation potential. Indeed Piedmont is one of the leading European bioeconomy regions with strong expertise in different areas and UNITO has placed circular and bioeconomy themes at the center of its training offer, declining it in the various sectors i.e. the valorisation the agro-food supply chain, cleantech, sustainable energies, development and production of building blocks, biomaterials and bio-based products for the chemical industry and agriculture. Based on its regional features, UNITO has developed its initiatives taking advantages of international initiatives as UNITA (Univerisitas Montium) which aims to trigger institutionalised cooperation between higher education sharing and implementing common values for an innovative, European and future-oriented university. According to this view, it is strongly supporting the MASTER BIOCIRCE together with a number of initiatives in the field of Bioeconomy education, such as the EIT FOOD and the PhD program in Innovation for the Circular Economy and its industrial applications and in several Bioeconomy education projects thank you to its intrinsically multidisciplinary approach 

TRAINING OBJECTIVES

The module aims to update participants on new regulations on access to genetic resources and the possible sharing of the benefits derived from them. It will also present some examples of valorization of the processing industry by-products. The educational objective of the teaching is to present actors of the capital market operating in innovative projects funding and to provide communication tools to succeed in new businesses; furthermore the module provides an illustration of the principles and operation of Economic – financial and sustainability report.