Funded under the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (NRRP), Mission 4 Component 2 Investment 1.3, Theme 10.
Academia
Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro
Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro
Highlights
Research projects
News
Outputs
The University of Bari Aldo Moro (UNIBA) is one of the most renowned and prestigious Universities in the South of Italy, founded in 1924 (Edurank 517/14160 in the World, 17/88 in Italy; 109/1,621 for Nutrition and Food Science).
UNIBA, with currently over 43,000 students, is one of the largest generalist Universities in Italy with 22 Departments, covering all fields of research from basic to R&D, about 52 research and didactic centers and two schools: “Sciences and Technologies” and “Medicine”.
Leader of the spoke
Food safety of traditional and novel foods
Promoting a safe food innovation
Lead organisationUniBa
Spoke leaderMaria De Angelis
Participant in the spoke
Leader of the work package
People involved
Angela Di Pinto
Annalisa De Boni
Antonio Moschetta
Carlo Zambonin
The Organization Profile
The University of Bari Aldo Moro (UNIBA) (https://www.uniba.it/) is one of the most renowned and prestigious Universities in the South of Italy, founded in 1924 (Edurank 517/14160 in the World, 17/88 in Italy; 109/1,621 for Nutrition and Food Science).
UNIBA, with currently over 43,000 students, is one of the largest generalist Universities in Italy with 22 Departments, covering all fields of research from basic to R&D, about 52 research and didactic centers and two schools: “Sciences and Technologies” and “Medicine”. The UNIBA scientific community consists of 1.565 faculty members (professors and researchers). It proposes 127 graduate programs (5 in English), 23 Ph.D. programs and 68 post-graduate programs; in detail, 7 Bachelor’s degree, 6 Master’s degree and 6 Ph.D. courses, all perfectly fit the ONFOODS themes. UNIBA is strong oriented to gender equality and denies every kind of discrimination, as proved by the recent approved gender- balance plan.
Research Projects
The UNIBA research groups involved in the ONFOODS consortium have a proven track record in managing projects in the fields of both fundamental and applied research to food/nutritional science.
UNIBA takes a big effort to finalise the attractiveness of national/international funding, with more than 180 grants in FP7, H2020, PRIMA, ARIMNET2, ENPI CBC MED, National and Regional projects. UNIBA researchers have been awarded prestigious Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions grants. UNIBA has obtained numerous international projects focused on Food/Nutrition/Sustainability/Health, for a total of approximately € ca. 100 million in the last five years.
The Interdisciplinary Approach
In the ONFOODS consortium, UNIBA can provide high-level interdisciplinary scientific expertise in several different and complementary areas of food research.
In this proposal are included 30 academic researchers with international track record and covering a variety of scientific sectors including: agricultural and veterinary sciences, nutrition, medicine and metabolism; chemistry and biochemistry. Research and development in the ONFOODS area of interest involves the development of food safety, functional foods, studies on nutrition, nutrigenomics and metabolism, intestinal microbiota (in health and disease); the design of novel foods, the research about the reuse of waste and by products, the elaboration of new strategies for a more sustainable agriculture are the main activities of the researchers belonging to UNIBA. Infrastructures and the capacity of the UNIBA selected team will be able to mitigate problems occurred during the development of research activities. The team has also shown a great capacity in problem solving attitudes in the framework of the several contacts and research activities with private institutions, where the food industry has many times involved UNIBA unique competences to overcome different issues including food science and nutrition.
Research Collaborations
UNIBA has a multi-year collaboration with many regional, national, and European partners with whom it has promoted research and innovation in different areas through the establishment of consortia and networks.
The Community of Mediterranean Universities - CUM, the Italian Interuniversity Consortium for Argentina - CUIA, the European University Association - EUA, the Union of Mediterranean Universities - UNIMED and the European University Network – UNISCAPE are some examples. UNIBA expresses the Vice-Presidency of the intergovernmental institution CHIEAM which plays a prominent role in numerous activities that constitute a platform for interested international institutions and organisations cooperating in the Mediterranean.