D’Annunzio University (Italian: Università degli Studi “Gabriele d’Annunzio”, Ud’A) is a public research university located in Chieti and Pescara, neighbouring cities in the region of Abruzzo, Italy. Established in 1960 as a higher education institute and named after writer and poet Gabriele D’Annunzio, it was officially recognised as an independent university in 1965.
The Institute for BioEconomy (IBE) is one of the research institutes that belong to the National Research Council (CNR), the main Italian public research body.
The IBE’s mission is to define mitigation and adaptation strategies to global changes, enhance biodiversity and develop sustainable systems for the use of bioresources for food, manufacturing, construction and energy purposes. This mission is achieved through the study of the primary productivity of agro-ecosystems, the protection of plant biodiversity, the sustainable use of wood and wooden cultural heritage, the development of new technologies and methodologies for the management and collection of biomass, for precision agriculture, the development of meteorological, oceanographic and climatological modeling and climate services for the agroforestry and energy sector, the analysis of the environmental sustainability of production processes and products and the valorisation of ecosystem services.
The IBE’s research lines are linked to this complex network of skills and are organized within six major multidisciplinary thematic areas:
- primary production and biodiversity;
- wood technology and derivatives;
- uses, agroforestry mechanization and woody biomass;
- climate, meteorology and oceanography;
- biotechnology, bioenergy, process and product technologies;
- sustainable use of natural resources and ecosystem services.
The Council for Agricultural Research and Economics (CREA) is a national research body based in Rome, supervised by the Ministry of Agriculture, Food Sovereignty and Forestry. It was established with Legislative Decree 29 October 1999, n. 454 and so named pursuant to art. 1, paragraph 381, of Law 23 December 2014, n. 190.
The set of activities is aimed at increasing the international and national competitiveness of Italian agricultural, agri-food and agro-industrial companies and at improving the safety, quality, economic, social and environmental sustainability of the agricultural, livestock and forestry sectors. These objectives bring together the requests of the scientific, productive world and civil society, as driving forces, and materialize in responses that pass through the different channels of scientific, technical and popular communication. Their achievement is achieved, first of all, through scientific research activities, aimed at the advancement of knowledge and the development of new technologies.
CREA also carries out institutional research activities, requested by MASAF and other public administrations, as a knowledge support for the planning of sectoral policies. In particular, this involves the collection and analysis of statistical data, the drafting of documents for the definition of policies and certification activities.