Sustainability, Digital Agriculture, food systems: Applications open at the Sant’Anna School for the Summer School on “EU Law on Digital Agriculture”, with an interdisciplinary approach. The deadline for applications is 7th June 2021
Booosting the role of new innovative techniques to improve the sustainability of food systems, while ensuring that they are safe, is among the key step in implementing the European Green Deal and the Farm to Fork Strategy. In this framework, the Dirpolis Institute of the Sant’Anna School organise the Summer School “EU law on Digital Agriculture” that will be held on 5-9 July 2021. The final deadline for applications is 7th June 2021, through an online procedure.
The summer school is part of the research project SUSTAIN, funded by the European Union and coordinated by Mariagrazia Alabrese, professor of Agri-food Law at the Dirpolis Institute of the Sant’Anna School. The project involves CNR, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Greece), Slovak University of Agriculture, Nitra (Slovakia), University of Nicosia (Cyprus), Polytechnic Institute of Beja (Portugal), Cardiff University (United Kingdom), Arctic University of Norway (Norway), University of Stirling (United Kingdom).
The law and policy framework for digital agriculture and the technical and economic aspects for implementation of smart agriculture will be explored during the Summer School. E-innovation and ICT for sustainable and climate-resilient agriculture will be addressed from an interdisciplinary perspective, including law, economics, computer sciences, and agricultural engineering.
The target group of the Summer School includes students (in Law, Politics, International Studies, Agricultural Sciences, Computer Science, amongst other fields), young researchers as well as professionals (such as lawyers, agricultural engineers) international/regional public servants working on agricultural and rural development.
“The European farming and food system – as stated by Mariagrazia Alabrese, director of the Summer School and coordinator of the SUSTAIN project - has to deal with a complex set of global and regional challenges, from climate change and environmental degradation to inequality in the supply chain. These issues require profound transformations in the way we produce, market, and sell agricultural products. Digital innovation and smart agriculture will be crucial to support the transformation of agri-food systems. The Summer School will discuss the connections between innovation, sustainability, and climate change policy”.
