Sustainable Development and Cooperation - Sustnet

📸🌍 New International Cooperation Project Launch! 🤝🌱

Yesterday marked the successful launch in Moroni of the "Docet4Africa - Doctorat Océan Indien: Coopération, Environment et Training" project, generously funded by the ERASMUS+ KA2 program.

We are truly excited to witness tangible efforts in international cooperation aimed at promoting environmental sustainability and fostering community development.

Our heartfelt appreciation goes to the organizations involved in this noteworthy project: Université des Comores, Università degli Studi di Torino, Université d'Antananarivo, Université de Mahajanga, and Université de Toamasina Officiel.

Together, let us continue to extend our support to initiatives like these and actively spread the message of global cooperation for a sustainable future! 💚🌍

Exciting news! On 10 March 2023, the students of SUSTNET will be visiting IZSPLV Torino for lectures on sustainable seafood by experts in the industry. Check out the program for the day and join us in promoting sustainability in seafood!

Grants for international research mobility for PhD candidates, applications closing on 31st January 2023

Grants for international research mobility for PhD candidates UniTo promotes international research mobility for PhD candidates with individual grants through the PhD Around the World program

About the PhD Programme

An Interdisciplinary and International PhD programme to tackle the challenges of sustainable development in marginal and developing areas

The rapid, unchecked progress of science and technology can widen inequalities, exacerbate the fragmentation of social and natural environments, and accelerate resource depletion, for both human and non-human animals. Crucially, this is not only an issue felt in developing countries, but also in rural and mountainous areas in the very heart of Europe, of which our own Alpine and Apennine valleys represent a key example. The purpose of current and future Research & Development projects should therefore be to ensure the achievement of “well-being”, intended as the equitable access to a good quality of life.

Within this context, the PhD programme in "Sustainable development and cooperation" will implement a high-level international training and research network on “frontier sciences of sustainability". Developed on defined pillars, the programme includes the study of ecological, ethological, cultural, technological, and economic processes in different contexts, including developing areas, with a special focus on rural areas, small settlements, and “marginal” landscapes. We aim to align our proposal to the vision of an interconnected academic community within Europe and extend it to non-European partners, e.g. ACP (African Caribbean and Pacific) Countries, by developing an innovative cooperation framework.

A hands-on transdisciplinary approach, which promotes innovation, cooperation, and interdisciplinarity will be employed to provide students with the right tools to tackle some of the 17 developmental goals that have been identified as a World priority for the period 2020-2030 as the real-world challenges listed in the Agenda 2030 (https://epale.ec.europa.eu/it/resource-centre/content/lagenda-2030-lo-sviluppo-sostenibile-nuovo-quadro-strategico-delle-nazioni).

The three key themes we will address are:

Sustainable human-environment interactions
Food security & sustainable food processing
One health & sustainable socio-emotional development