Università Cattolica Del Sacro Cuore (UCSC)

Location: Milan, Italy

Role in the project:

UCSC is involved both in the tasks related to supply side and in the tasks related to the demand side. Concerning the supply side, UCSC will investigate the farm-level impact of several CAP tools targeting the potential negative environmental impact of agriculture, considering both compulsory programmes and voluntary programmes. The impact will be investigated for both economic and environmental farm performances and econometrics as well as machine learning techniques will be applied. Concerning the demand side, UCSC will assess the impact of changes in consumer preferences as well as the role of food-related policies to drive those changes. In addition, experiments will be conducted to elicit the consumer’s choices towards two types of food: “nature-based” food and “high-tech” food. UCSC also contributes to project communication, results dissemination and exploitation in WP11

Description:

Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (UCSC) is the largest Italian free academic Institution, counting 5 campuses, 12 faculties and more than 40 thousand students. The Faculty of Agricultural, Food and Environmental Science has his campus in Piacenza, in Northern Italy and was established in the academic year 1952-53. The Faculty today holds a prestigious reputation that extends well beyond the nation's borders.
Within this Faculty operates the Alta Scuola di Management ed Economia Agroalimentare (Graduate School of Agri-food Economics and Management) which is one of the leading Italian schools in the field with European-wide reputation. The School managed and manages several research projects financed by the EU, national and regional governments, and private institutions. In the EU research framework programs, the School has been involved in FP6 (EDIM, WEMAC), FP7 (FADNTOOL, FACTOR MARKETS, PRICE, TRANSFOP) and H2020 (BIOMONITOR, SUSDIET, PEGASUS, MINDSTEP) projects. The School has also been involved in consultancy activities for the FAO, the OECD, DG Agri, DG Sanco, and DG Enterprise.

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