Barilla

Today, Barilla is famous in Italy and around the world for the excellence of its food products. With its brands - Barilla, Mulino Bianco, Pan di Stelle, Gran Cereale, Harrys, Pavesi, Wasa, Filiz, Yemina and Vesta, Misko, Voiello, Cucina Barilla, Catelli, Lancia, Tolerant and Pasta Evangelists - it promotes a tasty diet, joyful and healthy, inspired by the Mediterranean diet and the Italian lifestyle.

The research topics proposed by PE # 10 that are interesting for Barilla essentially impact on three areas, in which Barilla has been investing for years with basic and applied research activities, to create knowledge useful for the enhancement of current product proposals and for the future new business opportunities.

Barilla has a Research and Development Centre, in Italy, in Parma, where 170 researchers and technicians work dedicated both to basic research on Agronomy, Nutrition, Quality and Safety of products, and to Product Development, from the pilot phase to that industrial. The centre has chemical-physical laboratories, microbiologists, and sensory analysis laboratories with 20 trained external panelists and 9000 square meters of pilot plants where machines and systems are available for the realization of prototypes also with innovative technologies and mechanical-plant solutions developed internally.

University of Milan, University of Parma, Catholic University of Piacenza, University of Bologna, University of Udine, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia (UNIMORE), University of Trento, University of Wien / BOKU Tulln, University of Cranfield UK, University of Prague, Queen's Belfast University, Graz University of Technology, Federico II University Napoli, Chalmers University of Technology, University of Minnesota Medical School, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Tufts University, University of Munich, University of Turin, Uni Tuscia, Politecnico delle Marche, Università degli Studi della Basilicata Joint Research Centre EU Commission, RIKILT Wageningen The Netherlands, IrcPack, SQTS Swiss Lab, BfR German Institute for Food Safety, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) - IAEA Wien, ENEA - Ente Nazionale Energie Alternative, Istituto Superiore di Sanità Italiano ISS, Istituto Zooprofilattico delle Venezie, International Association for Cereal Science and Technology, Fondazione Mach Trento, CREA, National Cancer Institute Pascale Foundation, Agravis Raiffeisen AG, AzzeroCO2, CERSAA, DEAFAL, FIRAB, GENESIS, Hushallningssallskapet, Ibe-CNR, Indigo, Open Fields, Smart Cloud Farming, X-Farm, Produttori Sementi Bologna, AGROSERVICE-ISEA.