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Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna

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Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna stands among the most important institutions of higher education in the European Union with 31 departments, 262 degree programs, 51 Phd, 59 specializations and 86 masters, 96.945 enrolled students (9.826 international), 2.516 permanent professors, 932 researchers and 3.395 administrative staff.

Lobbying Activity

Meeting with Stefano Bonaccini (Member of the European Parliament)

26 Mar 2025 · Meeting with Prof. Di Federico

Response to Carbon Removal Certification

29 Apr 2022

This a feedback from an interdisciplinary group of the University of Bologna (our view does not reflect the official view of our Alma Mater). We argue and conclude that comprehensive rules on the certification of each type of carbon removal are necessary and that validation of projects and the subsequent verification of carbon removals achieved, should be carried out preferably by by public authorities, possibly as part of a centralised EU system. We participated to this call for evidence because we are involved in research, projects and initiatives on this specific topic.
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Response to Soil Health Law – protecting, sustainably managing and restoring EU soils

16 Mar 2022

Thank you very much for the opportunity to say our opinion. We are a group of researchers and practitioners in pedology, life cycle thinking, land use and soil modelling studies. Feedback is provided the annex document.
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Response to Legislative proposal for an EU framework on crowd and peer to peer finance

11 May 2018

In the position paper presented on behalf of the INTERREG project CROWDFUNDPORT we have tried to express the two main position about the impact that the regulation may have in the est-European area involved in the project. We have underlined that there is a general favor for the enforcement of a regulation referred to transnational equity campaign, and that the EU passport may be an opportunitiy for platforms who operate in those Countries where national legislation does not allow equity crowdfunding. At the same time we have underlined the risk that such liberalization may be useful just for the big player and it represents a competition disadvantage for smaller platforms. That risk is also increased by the high threshold required to be recognized as an EU platform.
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Response to Update of the 2012 Bioeconomy Strategy

19 Mar 2018

We appreciate the proposed roadmap and in particular the chosen direction to optimise impact across all sectors of the bioeconomy. There are many opportunities to be caught by connecting the primary sectors such as agriculture, forestry and fisheries, post-harvest sectors to the biobased industries on a sustainable path. This will give more value to innovation and put greater attention to land and soil management and to their related ecosystem services. There are more than 10M farms in Europe whose added net value is showing large dispersion and disparities within regions and MS and also over time. Bioeconomy should be also seen as a way to diversify sources of income and reduce risks of volatility and to make more equal opportunities among MS and regions. Point 8 of the roadmap “Strengthen the understanding and resilience of land and sea ecosystems… through research and innovation, policy action, guidance, foresight and awareness raising” should apply not only to the output from the EU lands and soils, but also extended to import from extra EU through appropriate trade agreements. SMART indicators and data collection in general will be pivotal to govern the roadmap and measure effects on resilience and the sustainability of soils. We should account for sustainable or unsustainable practices and extend the scope of data collection also for those goods and namely for biomass imported in EU. The roadmap correctly highlights the role of education and training and we believe this point should step-up in the policy agenda to ensure a diffuse distribution of skills and understanding of the subject. The issue of policy coherence across sectors should also be targeted more directly, especially in relation to the primary sector, such as in the field of the Common Agricultural Policy.
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