Territorial enhancement
MULTITRACES
Multidisciplinary training in Circular Economy and smart valorisation of the rural area for new business models
Challenge
The research aims to define a multidisciplinary and international training course on the Circular Economy for rural areas. The students involved address the topics of Systemic Design, production engineering, agronomy, and business to build new circular skills, in close cooperation with local enterprises.
Results
The collaboration between the agrifood SMEs and the universities involved underlined that the first step in promoting an industrial transition towards the Circular Economy is to create awareness in companies that they need professionals with new skills in the field of circular enterprises.
General Info
- Typology:
- Competitive international research project - Funded
- Partner:
- University of Bacau (Romania), International Hellenic University (Greece), University of Alicante (Spain), Romagria S.R.L. (Romania), Agrindustria Tecco S.R.L (Italy), ALFAWOOD Group S.A. (Greece), Comunidad de Regantes de Pliego (Spain)
- Scientific supervisor:
- Silvia Barbero, Pier Paolo Peruccio
- Project team:
- Asja Aulisio, Marta Bovio, Amina Pereno, Fabiana Rovera, Maurizio Vrenna
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Timeline
November 2019
Project start
June 2020
Regional state-of-the-art analysis
on circular economy in rural areas
September 2020
Analysis of skills
required by enterprises on Circular Economy in rural areas
February 2021
MULTITRACES interdisciplinary online course
delivered by the four universities involved
June 2022
International student internship
in the four SMEs project partners
July 2022
Presentation of students' Circular Economy projects
December 2022
Project end
Publications
Aulisio, A., Pereno, A., Rovera, F., & Barbero, S. (2021). Systemic Design Education in Interdisciplinary Environments: Enhancing a Co-Disciplinary Approach Towards Circular Economy. In E. Bohemia, L. M. Nielsen, L. Pan, N. A. G. Z. Börekçi, & Y. Zhang (Eds.), Proceedings of the DRS Learn X Design 2021: 6th International Conference for Design Education Researchers (Vol. 2, pp. 529–539). Design Research Society. https://doi.org/10.21606/drs_lxd2021.05.250
(Awarded as one of the best 10 Conference papers)
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