WASTEWISE at the DS-FOOD summer school

8 July 2025 By

Several members of the WASTEWISE consortium participated from 6th to 13th July 2025 as lecturers at the 5th edition of the DS-FOOD summer school “Design of sustainable food systems” at the UNITUS Alpine Studies Centre, located in the small village of Pieve Tesino, in the Dolomites of Trentino, Italy. The event was organised by University of Tuscia (Italy), in partnership with Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (Sweden), University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (Austria), University of Hohenheim (Germany), Universitat de Lleida (Spain), Harokopio University of Athens (Greece) and University POLITEHNICA of Bucharest (Romania). The summer school was also promoted by the Euro League of Life Science, a network of European universities.

Clara Cicatiello, Mattias Eriksson, Cristian Popescu, Roberta Pietrangeli and Luca Secondi were some of the speakers among a large group of international students. Together they could enjoy a great week of lectures, practical activities and field visits.

The 5th edition of the international summer school arises from the growing attention that the issue of sustainability of food systems has gained at the international level. The objective of the summer school is to provide participants with a theoretical overview and a basic toolbox to design and assess sustainability in agri-food systems, in an international environment.