Università di Roma La Sapienza

Since its foundation, Sapienza has constantly played a significant role in Italian history and has been directly involved in key changes and developments in society, economics, and politics. Merging centuries of tradition with cutting-edge didactic activities, research and innovation, Sapienza provides top quality education and research opportunities. The main campus is a real city within the city located in the heart of Rome. Sapienza University is an extraordinary place for students and teachers from around the world to meet, exchange and develop new ideas and philosophies. And it all takes place in one of the most astonishing cities in the world.

In the four-year period 2018-2021 62,398 products were entered in the catalogue IRIS and 54,615 among them are eligible for the Abilitazione scientifica nazionale (National scientific qualification). In the catalogue IRIS, in particular, 484 products refer to the key word “nutrition”, 114 to the keyword “malnutrition” and 894 to the keyword “food”.

Sapienza has gained a pivotal role in supporting the entire research and innovation value chain on national and regional initiatives in cooperation with the universities and the companies involved in research and innovation networks on food and nutrition sustainability, safety, and security. The most relevant are those with the universities of Aix-Marseille (France), Clermont-Ferrand Auvergne (France), Valencia (Spain), Madrid (Spain), Newcastle (UK), Bielefeld (Germany), Delft (Netherlands) and the Pennington Biomedical Research Centre (LA, USA).

At present Sapienza formally participates in the following networks: AAHC Association of Academic Health Centre; ACPN Advances in Cleaner Production Network ; EUA European University Association; EUA - CDE European University Association - Council Doctoral Education; EURAS Eurasian Universities Union; IAU International Association of Universities; M8 ALLIANCE of Academic Health Centres, Universities and National Academies; SGROUP European Universities' Network; TETHYS Consortium of Euro-Mediterranean Universities; UNICA Institutional Network of the Universities from the Capitals of Europe; UNIMED Union of Mediterranean Universities; UNI-ITALIA; SAR Scholar at risk International.