Projects

Our group is involved in different project about urban farming, vertical farming and horticulture.

SustUrbanFoods: Integrated sustainability assessment of social and technological innovations towards urban food systems for the implementation of specific metholodogies for sustainability assessment of Urban Agriculture (coordinator) – H2020 Marie Curie Slodowoska Individual Fellowship (2016-2018) susturbanfoods

UrbanGreenTrain: Urban Green Education for Enterprising Agricultural Innovation (2015-2017): for the creation of an Higher education curriculum on entrepreneurship in urban agriculture - Erasmus+ KA2 with partners in Italy (Steps, Horticity, MammutFilm, GrowThePlanet), France (Agreenium, Vegepolys), Germany (University of Applied Sciences of South-West Westphalia, Hei-Tro) and the Netherlands (RUAF) (2015-2017).  urbangreentrain

HORTIS: Horticulture in Towns for Inclusion and Socialisation (2012-2014) for the creation of lifelong learning tools for urban agriculture in Europe. Grundtig Multilateral Projects, with partners in Italy (Amitie, Horticity, Mammutfilm), Spain (Universidad Politecnica de Cartagena, Fundacion Tierra Integral), Hungary (Corvinus University of Budapest, Biokultura) and Germany (Workstation Berlin). hortis

BUGI: Wester Balkans Urban Agriculture Initiative (partner) for the creation of an innovative master degree programme on urban agriculture in western Balkan countries – Erasmus+ EAC. bugi

GardensToGrow (2017-2019): Urban Horticulture for Innovative and Inclusive Early Childhood Education” (partner) for the creation of innovative tools for educating operators in pre-primary schools (with children 0-6 years old) on implementing sustainable educational gardens - Erasmus+ KA2 (2017-2019). gardenstogrow

S.A.L.U.S W SPACE (2017-2020): Villa SALUS as a new Sustainable Accessible Livable Usable Social space for intercultural Wellbeing, Welfare and Welcoming in the Metropolitan City of Bologna” (partner) for promoting social inclusion and job creation in international refugees communities through urban agriculture - Urban Innovation Actions (UIA) (2017-2020). saluspace