Guest speakers

Haw-Hamburg 

Dr. Jelena Barbir is a biologist with a PhD degree in Sustainable Landscape Management. Currently she is working at the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, Germany, as a researcher and a lead project manager of the H2020 project BIO-PLASTICS EUROPE and Interreg project BALTIPLAST. She is also deputy director of the Research Center “Climate Change and Sustainable Management” (FTZ-NK) and Head of the Environment & Circular Economy FTZ-NK Unit. She is an expert in sustainable development and her current interests are focused on sustainable usage of bio-based and biodegradable plastics.

BASSOFOOD

Owner of the company “Basso s.a.s. di Roberto Basso & C.”

Graduated in Engineering at University of Udine I have experience in company management with responsible leadership, great strategic planning and management competence, as well as excellent interpersonal communication skills gained through my experience as owner of Basso S.a.s., wide range of multidisciplinary and transversal ability. My own project it’s going to be present in H2020 programs on the circularity of plastics, because is innovative and is a new era project style, based of a washing and renting plant for dishes. Represent an exclusive opportunity to efficiently, ecologically and economically solve all the needs related to the organization of events, congresses, parties, country festivals, and many others.

Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna

Full professor at the University of Bologna, her main research topics are in Environmental Engineering with particular regard to treatment, recovery and recycling of raw materials and solid waste, to the life cycle assessment and Circular Economy, to dissemination of urban Green Technologies and unconventional building materials for climate change resilience in urban areas.

She founded and coordinates the research group of Transition Engineering whose activities are aimed at building a sustainable future by environmentally, socially and economically point of view, through conservation and valorization of natural resources, raw materials, water and energy.
A precise research concerns the application of the above topics in cooperation activity for developing and emerging countries. Numerous publications and collaborations with national and international universities.

Delegate of UNIBO at UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network (UN, New York) and at UE Commission Operational Groups of the European Innovation Partnership on Raw Materials (EIP Raw Materials)

Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna

Fabio Fava, Full Professor of Industrial and Environmental Biotechnology at the School of Engineering of the University of Bologna since 2005, has over than 210 international peer-reviewed publications in the fields of Bioeconomy, in which he coordinated 2 european FP7 collaborative projects and other national projects. He is the Italian Representative in various panels of the European Commission (Brussels), among others, the European Bioeconomy Policy Forum, the States Representatives Group of the Public Private Partnership "Circular BioBased Europe" (CBE JU), the EuroMed Group of Senior Officials of the "BLUEMED initiative" and the Horizon EU Cluster VI programming Committee. He is also the Italian Representative in the Working Party on Biotechnology, Nanotechnology and Converging Technologies of the OECD (Paris)

ILPA GROUP

Luigi Garavaglia is graduated in Food technology at the University of Milan. He spent more than 35 years in the area of development of packaging for foods. Currently is the R&D and Quality Manager of ILPA Group, a leading Italian company (250 Mln € of annual turnover) located in Emilia Romagna Region.

Previously He has worked in the R&D Department of several multinational companies -Cryovac sealed Air, Combibloc Gmbh, Sirap-Gema).

He has large experience in the area of formulation, extrusion, thermoforming, recycling of containers for food; He is an expert in the application of MAP, vacuum, skin, active & intelligent packaging to FRM, F&V, Ready Meals, Cheese. He has knowledge in Quality Assurance System, BRC, Food law and Intellectual properties.

He is Chairman of the Pet Sheet Europe Association.

Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna

Christian Nielsen, PhD, is Adjunct Professor at Bologna University and Professor at Aalborg University in Denmark. He currently serves as Head of Aalborg University Business School. Christian is a global thought leader in the design of disruptive and scalable business models. His work combines business model design with corporate performance and benchmarking. He is also the founding Editor of the Journal of Business Models as well as an Editorial Board member of the Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal and Journal of Behavioural Economics and Social Systems. Since initiating the establishment of the Business Design Lab in 2011, over 300 companies ranging from local start-ups and SMEs to multinationals with a global presence have seen the value of collaborating with Christian and his research team. The contributions of the research have led to published works in leading international scholarly journals. This reflects the broad international research network of Christian which spans Europe, the US, Australia, and Asia. 

Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna

Angelo Paletta teaches and researches on Internal controls, Cost Management; Corporate performance measurement, Corporate bankruptcy and turnaround, Public Management, Educational Leadership, Governance and accountability of Universities; Circular economy and business models. He is currently coordinator of the European Horizon 2020 project "Developing and Implementing Sustainability-Based Solutions for Bio-Based Plastic Production and Use to Preserve Land and Sea Environmental Quality in Europe".

University of Torino

Francesco Quatraro is full professor of Economics at the University of Torino and Fellow at the Collegio Carlo Alberto. He is co editor of the journal Spatial Economic Analysis. At the University of Torino he is Director of the ICxT Innovation Center, and Director of the PhD Programme in Innovation for the Circular Economy. His research focuses on the economic determinants and impacts of technological innovation at the firm and regional level, with a specific focus on the interp lay between new technological challenges , sustai nable development and labor market dynamics . He is an applied economist with sound experience in the implementation of sophisticated econometric techniques for the analysis of firms’ and regions’ economic and innovative performances, and for the evaluation of the impact of policies through counterfactual analysis.

ABM COMPOSITE

Ari Rosling received his PhD at Åbo Akademi University 1998 (Organic Chemistry) after which he was appointed assistant professor at Department of Polymer Technology, leading the biomaterial research with focus towards medical and technical applications. At present he is R&D Director at Arctic Biomaterials, being in charge of the technical and medical material development at the company. He has published more than 50 papers and several patents.

CITTÀ VERDE

I was born in Ferrara and I still live in Ferrara: in the middle of Po valley. The nature of these places reinforced my inclination for human relationships and nature. I therefore studied agronomy and
chose to work inside social economy and cooperation. I applied my knowledge and efforts to find ways to connect people to nature in a prosperous and sustainable way. This path took me to develop
interest in circular economy and social innovation. I don’t consider myself a teacher but an experimenter.

Kaunas University of Technology

Prof. Dr. Žaneta Stasiškienė Director of the Institute of Environmental Engineering Kaunas University of Technology (KUT), Lithuania. Her experience under UNEP DTIE was transferred to Africa, Asia, South and Central America, Europe and covers areas of Sustainability and Smart cities development, sustainable innovation and business models for circular economy. She is a leader of the KUT Research Group on Smart and Sustainable cities, which integrates interdisciplinary scientist and research fields - sustainable urban development, circular cities, society engagement (co-creation), sustainable (personalized) food systems. Her special interest covers areas of industry transformation to circular economy, value chain analysis and establishment of industrial symbiosis on city scale.