BRI - Biodiversity and Business: from Research to Impact
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Registrations open
8 September - 7 December 2025
Period
26th - 30th January 2026
Learning objectives
The protection of biodiversity presents a worldwide challenge, with the EU striving to take the lead in addressing its decline through its 2030 Biodiversity Strategy. Businesses are pivotal in crafting a framework that preserves and restores biodiversity along with the ecosystem services it offers. The Seasonal School "Biodiversity and Business: from Research to Impact", now in its second edition for 2025, is committed to addressing the global imperative of biodiversity conservation and advocating for a regenerative economic development approach.
The objectives of the Seasonal School are as follows:
- examine and promote a development model capable of protecting and regenerating biodiversity and the services that ecosystems provide, from a perspective of regenerative economic development;
- provide participants with stimuli and tools to understand and measure the impact of business on biodiversity, evaluate risks and opportunities;
- foster technological and organizational innovation, encouraging the development of new technological and organizational solutions that foster a regenerative economy that protects natural capital.
The Seasonal School is affiliated with the National Biodiversity Future Center (NBFC), an Italian project funded by the European Union's NextGenerationEU initiative.
Teaching methodologies
The Seasonal School includes lessons with active participation from students, case studies discussion, laboratory activity in-person testimonies from entrepreneurs, managers and experts in the field of biodiversity, company visits to parks/organizations that contribute to biodiversity protection, and guided group work aimed at promoting discussion among students from different disciplines on the contents learned during the Seasonal School.
Target participants
Undergraduate, postgraduate and PhD students from different backgrounds (e.g. management, biology, law, political science, life sciences and engineering) who are interested in acquiring knowledge, skills, and experiences in the broad field of biodiversity and business.
Coordinator and key teaching staff
Coordinators: Jacopo Cricchio and Valentina Cucino
Key teaching staff: Andrea Piccaluga, Alberto Di Minin, Lino Cinquini, Andrea Tenucci, Giacomo Pigatto, Francesco Testa, Sara Tessitore, Cesare Stefanini, Donato Romano, Anna Camilla Moonen
SDGs
- SDG 13: Climate Action
- SDG 15: Life on Land
- SDG 17: Partnership for the Goals