UNISG at Slow Fish
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Genoa May 4-7
Meanwhile its students will be participating in the event, attending workshops and conferences, and getting an in-depth look at fish and seafood and learn from experts in the sector.
The UNISG stand will be near the entrance to the fair, and here you can get a taste of the broad range of educational courses the university offers.
Staff will be on hand during the event to provide further information, and printed material will be available to take away.
Visitors can learn more about the project In Search of the Great River, which will take students and teachers on a trip down the River Po from September 26 to October 20.
One of the many original aspects of this unique and ambitious field trip is that the students are themselves directly involved in the planning and organization.Here is the program of activities which will be held each day at the UNISG area:
Friday May 4, 11.30am: BORMIOLIROCCO and WWF present the project Insieme per la natura (Together for nature)
Friday May 4, 5pm: scientific meeting with Francesco Puma, Coordinator of the Technical Secretariat of the Po River Basin Authority: Il Fiume Po tra natura, territorio, paesaggio e società (The River Po between nature, territory, landscape and society)
The great river is still an important environmental and economic resource which can be saved, notwithstanding the altering of its state caused by human pressure and exploitment caused by urban, industrial and productive development.
Saturday May 5, 12pm: press conference
Presentation of the University of Gastronomic Sciences’s project In Search of the Great River: a journey along the Po for a new experience of memory and river identity. Speeches will be made by Alfonso Pecoraio Scanio, Italian Environment Minister; Ezio Pelizzetti, Rector of the University of Turin; Alberto Capatti, Dean of the University of Gastronomic Sciences and Carlo Petrini, President of Slow Food.
Saturday May 5, 5pm: UNISG meeting
Prof. Piercarlo Grimaldi, who teaches Anthropology at UNISG, will present the documentary Ritratti e interviste di uomini del fiume (Men of the River: Portraits and Interviews)
Sunday May 6, 11.30am: scientific meeting: Understanding the River Ecosystem
An in-depth look at research into the ecological heritage of the river with Roberto Mezzalama, representative of the environmental research society Golder Associates and the society Cooperativa Nautilus, who are collaborating on the project “In Search of the Great River.”
Sunday May 6, 3pm
Fish and fishing on the River Ticino: presentation of the book L’ultima Peschiera (The last fish-farm)
Sunday May 6, 5pm: meeting with UNISG students
Pedalling and learning: a student’s account of the organizational and educational experience of the journey along the Po
Monday May 7, 11.30am: UNISG meeting
Prof. Ettore Tibaldi, who teaches Zoology at UNISG, will talk about Ci si può bagnare sempre nello stesso fiume: come i problemi di un grande fiume non vengono risolti (You can always cross the same river: how the problems of a great river are not resolved)
Monday May 7, 6pm: presentation of Paolo Lingua’s book Il Piacere del Palato (The Pleasure of the Palate)