PhD Program
SUSTAINABLE MANAGEMENT OF AGRICULTURAL FORESTRY AND FOOD RESOURCES
The Ph.D. program in Sustainable Management of Agricultural Forestry and Food Resources builds upon the long term experience in research and teaching of the Department of Agriculture, Food, Environment and Forestry (DAGRI) of the University of Florence. The PhD is a 3 year full-time period of learning and research offering students scientific knowledge in the fields of agricultural and forestry economics, forest planning and monitoring, forest operations, wood science, agricultural and forestry engineering, food sciences and technologies. PhD students will acquire the theoretical and methodological approaches needed for building innovation into planning and managing agricultural, forest and food systems, seen as complex socio-ecological systems.
The PhD Program is organized in 4 Curricula. Students attend courses in common to the 4 curricula (e.g. methodological approaches, statistics, scientific writing, etc., generally in the first year), and courses on specific aspects of their curriculum and PhD project. Students are encouraged to involve in interdisciplinary approaches. During their PhD program students are expected to present their work in appropriate research seminars.
The PhD Program in Sustainable Management of Agricultural Food and Forestry Resources offers students a number of opportunities for intenational exchange, based on the ongoing collaborations with some of the most important Universities and Research Institutes worldwide dealing with Agriculture, Forestry and Food Science. PhD students are encouraged to spend a research period abroad and to participate in cooperative research projects.
In the academic year 2018/2019 a PhD position will be funded by the European Union through Horizon 2020 within the program Marie Sklodowska-Curie ITN-ETN Innovative and European Training Networks (n. 764985), project EDULIA - Bringing Down Barriers to Children's Healthy Eating (http://edulia.eu/). The Innovative Training Networks (ITN) aim to train a new generation of creative, entrepreneurial and innovative early-stage researchers, able to face current and future challenges and to convert knowledge and ideas into products and services for economic and social benefit.