Food City Design II Edition

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AIMS

The 1st Level Master in Food City Design (FCD) aims at forming a manager in food culture, able to keep connections among city municipality, SME, local agricultural food systems, food tourism and citizens, with a peculiar focus on the concepts of food quality and sustainability in terms of production, processing, distribution and any other stage of the food chain that may be relevant for sustainable local food value chains. These managers will be particularly able in the framework of urban regeneration, with a specific competence on food-related issues. The formed figure would work in the public or private sector, including, but not limited to, city municipality, public institutions involved in food procurement, local food production associations, companies involved in food productions and distribution.

VENUE

The FCD master was supposed to be held at the School of Advanced Studies on Food and Nutrition of the University of Parma, in Italy. It has been moved in an online platform due to COVID-19 pandemic. Professors and experts from the Mid Sweden University (Sweden), the University of Alicante (Spain) and the University of Bergen (Norway) will be involved in teaching and training activities. These Universities cooperate with the University of Parma and are all located in cities that are part, together with Parma, of the UNESCO Creative Cities of Gastronomy network.

ADMISSIONS

Candidates holding at least a 3-years degree, equivalent to what is imparted by a qualified Italian academic institution, can apply for registration to courses. Registration is, however, subject to the evaluation of the title of equivalence by the academic bodies for the sole purpose of registration, as well as the successful completion of an interview with the admission committee, which will be held on December 13th 2021, at 10 am. The interview will be carried out through the Microsoft TEAMS platform and the details will be provided to the applicants before the colloquium date.

EU students must submit the Diploma Supplement. NON-EU students, and EU students which do not have the Diploma Supplement, must have their documents translated and legalized and obtain the Declaration of Value from the Italian Diplomatic Representation in the country issuing the qualification.

The maximum number of admitted student to the FCD Master is 20.

APPLICATIONS

Candidates may download the form with all the informations about the master at the following link:

https://www.unipr.it/bandi/didattica/food-city-design-master-internazionale-20212022

LECTURES info

The frontal teaching will be carried out in an intense period (February to benning of June) EXCLUSIVELY ONLINE due to COVID-19 pandemic issues.

Microsoft Teams will be used as teaching platform.

The lectures are scheduled for 4 days/week for 6/8h (Tue-Wed-Thu-Fri).

The lectures could be both pre-recorded (and uploaded at least the day before their schedule) and/or live streaming – based on the lecturer’s discretion.

All the materials will be made digitally available off-line. The video recording of the lectures will be available until the scheduled exam.

The Master teaching phase will be held in a 16 weeks intensive period during which, the students will:

• follow all the courses, for a total of approximately (240 hours of frontal lectures),
• participate to workshop activities and be involved in innovative didactic context (approximatly one hundred hours)
• study and prepare different kinds of exams (see EXAMS info)
• take tests or individual/group exams

The Master is designed in 5 short cycles teaching structure. In the end of each short cycle, student’s knowledge will be tested.

The learning activities will include the following courses, clustered in the 5 main Areas:

1. The Provenance of Local Food;
2. Food Tourism and Local Development;
3. Culture and Creativity (for sustainable regional development);
4. Food Environment
5. Advancing Wellness and Sustainability.

Industrializing and de-industrializing food

Ethical purchasing group

The Jämtland-Östersund Foodscape

Nutrition Education & Wellness: educational design and advancing

Case study of craft and local food

Local food plants and the University’s Botanical Garden

Food and education policies

EXAMS info

The exams could be, at lecturer’s discretion: research essay, oral exam, written test, working group activity, mix of the above method.

The exam score is 0 to 30 points (at least 18/30 for passing it).

The exams are scheduled ideally at the end of the competence area, but the lecturer can define another date. 

PROJECT WORK info

The Project Work (stage/project designing/etc.) will be performed between July and November 2022 for 25 CFU – 625 hours (16 weeks circa).

At the end, the student needs to write a final report (min 10 max 20 pages) and to prepare a presentation.

The work will be displayed as a presentation (20 min + discussion) during the final WORKSHOP.

The structure and organization of each Work Project will depend on pandemic situation.

The students will then carry out, individually or in small groups depending on the activity, a project work. This activity will be carried out under the direct supervision of one of the professors and lecturers involved in the frontal teaching. These project works will be directly related to the contents learned during the months of frontal lections and will generate a final report and presentation, that will be held in Parma in the early December 2022, where the title will be conferred.

The final presentation of each candidate will be carried out during an event organized by the University of Parma, at the presence of many authorities, academics, and companies interested in the field, representing therefore a spectacular opportunity to showcase one’s work and communication skills.

FINAL WORKSHOP (IN PARMA)

The final workshop will be ideally in Parma in December; the program will be:

day 1 and day 2: final exam (Work Project presentations)
day 3: UNESCO meeting

COSTS

The FCD Master is FREE of charge for the 20 students that will be admitted, thanks to the contribution of the Emilia Romagna Region, granted to the School of Advanced Studies on Food and Nutrition after a competitive call.