(Adnkronos) - “È un grande onore poter ospitare questa importante iniziativa e avere la possibilità di informare i partecipanti su quanto sia affine la nostra missione di ricerca anche nel settore dell'agricoltura, un settore strategico per l’economia”. Così, Mario Martina, coordinatore dottorato nazionale in Sviluppo sostenibile e cambiamento climatico Scuola Iuss, in occasione del convegno ‘Agricoltura, sostenibilità ed innovazione: le sfide per coltivare il nostro futuro’, promosso da Bper in collaborazione con il settimanale “il Ticino” e organizzato a Pavia alla sede dello Iuss.
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00:00For us it is a great honor and pleasure to be able to host this important initiative of the Ilticino BIPER on agriculture, sustainability and innovation
00:16and to be able to inform all those concerned about how much our research mission is related to this sector, the agriculture sector.
00:27We started from a premise already in 2020 because the agriculture sector, or agri-food as it is now called, is certainly a strategic sector for the Italian economy of our country
00:43and above all three aspects have struck us. The fact that the approach to food production is moving from a concept of supply chain,
00:55therefore of all the companies interested in the supply chain, to a concept of system in which the involvement is not only of those companies that are directly involved in production,
01:08but of all the other socio-economic components, therefore companies and institutions, in an interdependent complex system,
01:17which therefore is certainly interconnected from the point of view of the economy, but it can also be very fragile,
01:26because if a chain ring is hit, the propagation of the effects is felt at different levels and on different subjects.
01:34The second aspect is the need to propose, to make a non-traditional training offer,
01:41that is, the one that aimed to train specialists in the sector who were super competent in a certain aspect,
01:51instead has a multidisciplinary, innovative training, in which, alongside the sectoral skills,
02:00the knowledge and competence of all sectors, disciplines and areas that are involved in a certain problem are also accompanied.
02:12The third and last aspect is that, even in the evolution of the normative, the concept of sustainability has passed from that closely related to the environmental field
02:22and then went to cover a fundamental role in the economic and financial field.
02:30For example, we now see the European normative, which deals heavily with sustainable finance, and the agricultural sector has also experienced these phases.
02:41On these premises, we already in 2020 have conceived a new and innovative research doctorate,
02:48we have drawn and involved and convinced the Ministry of University Research not only to finance our doctorate,
02:57but to create and establish a new model of research doctorate and a model of national doctorate.
03:03What does it mean? It means that it is a model that involves all Italian universities,
03:08all the skills present in our territory, around a theme of national interest, therefore strategic.
03:16Italy cannot afford to be divided, not even in the field of research, in the face of the challenge of the sustainability of climate change.
03:25A research doctorate can no longer be a doctorate aimed only at academic training,
03:31to train new researchers and academic professors, but it must instead be open, directed, aware of the developments and the impact of the service that research can do for society.
03:42First of all, the relationship with companies and the relationship with institutions.
03:49Structurally, in our doctorate, there are more than 25 companies that have believed in our project,
03:54which not only finance the research bags of our doctorate, but also participate in the design,
04:01in the choice of research topics that are part of our offer.