Curriculum
First year
- Business management and finance - 12 ECTS
- Management basics
- Financial accounting and business evaluation
- Economics for the agri-food system - 10 ECTS
- Agri-food economics and policy
- Microeconomics of the agri-food system
- Agricultural and food marketing - 6 ECTS
- Food safety management - 10 ECTS
- Food protection management
- Food risk: analysis and management
- Industrial organisation and strategic decision-making in the food system - 10 ECTS
- Strategic decision making
- Industrial organisation
- Quantitative methods - 12 ECTS
- Applied mathematics and statistics for the agri-food system
- Applied econometrics for the agri-food system
- Research methods in agricultural and food economics - 1 ECTS
Second year
- Agricultural, food and environmental policies of the European Union - 6 ECTS
- Economics of agricultural and food markets - 7 ECTS
- Optional courses* - 10 ECTS
- Final dissertation - 20 ECTS
- Seminars - 1 ECTS
- Soft skills and entrepreneurship - 1 ECTS
A) Track in Innovation Management
- Multi-channel retail marketing - 5 ECTS
- Innovation management in the food industry - 5 ECTS
- Food consumer psychology and market intelligence - 5 ECTS
B) Track in Sustainability Management
- Sustainability budget and corporate social responsibility - 5 ECTS
- Food footprint: the environmental impact of the agro food chain - 5 ECTS
- Economics of sustainability and circularity in food systems - 5 ECTS
* Suggested optional courses:
- Food supply chain management - 5 ECTS
- Agricultural, food market istitutions - 5 ECTS
- Business planning for start-up - 5 ECTS
- Laboratory on big data and artificial intelligence for the agri-food system - 5 ECTS
- Italian language and civilisation for international students (SELDA) (only for non-Italian students) - 5 ECTS