2nd Year

A brief description of the spaces available for the Master's degree course in Food Safety and Food Risk Management - Curriculume: Risk Mitigation - Unicatt Piacenza.

The Piacenza Campus extends between Via Emilia Parmense 84 and Strada dell’Anselma 7. The buildings dedicated to teaching and research, featuring classrooms—including multimedia rooms—and laboratories, are complemented by an auditorium, a chapel, and a conference center, as well as residential facilities and dining services, libraries, study rooms, and a well-equipped sports center of over 8,000 square meters, which includes football, basketball, and handball courts, a fitness gym, and a free-climbing wall.

Strutture del Campus di Piacenza | Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore - campus di Piacenza e Cremona

The activities related to the Master’s Degree Programme in Food Safety and Food Risk Management, Risk Management curriculum, are based in the Department of Agricultural and Food Sciences at the University of Bologna.

The Department has two main locations: Bologna and Cesena. However, teaching and research activities are also carried out in other facilities.

The organizational chart illustrates the geographical and disciplinary distribution of DISTAL's facilities. The two main sites are located in Bologna (Viale Fanin) and Cesena (Campus of Forlì). In addition to these, educational and experimental activities also take place in Cadriano, Ozzano, Imola, Faenza, and at the University Experimental Farm (AUB). Each site hosts specific undergraduate, graduate, and international degree programs, as well as the PhD program in Agricultural, Environmental and Food Science and Technology (STAAA). The chart highlights the integration between teaching and applied structures, such as laboratories (e.g., agricultural mechanics, food safety), greenhouses, experimental wineries, fields, and educational orchards. This setup reflects an interdisciplinary approach, strongly rooted in the agri-food and environmental sectors, in line with AVA3 standards on comprehensive education and advanced infrastructure.

Facilities — Agricultural and Food Sciences

Activities related to the Master’s Degree Programme in Food Safety and Food Risk Management – 2nd year – Agri-food Safety curriculum are based within the Department of Life Sciences.

The Department of Life Sciences is spread across various facilities, active both at the Modena and Reggio Emilia campuses, where laboratories, research centers, and equipment dedicated to the development of specific research themes are located according to different scientific-disciplinary competences.

In addition to historical facilities, there are modern and technologically advanced structures, such as the Center for Regenerative Medicine and the scientific-educational hub on Via Campi.

The Department of Life Sciences constitutes a multidisciplinary, innovative, and stimulating environment where more than 170 permanent staff members (faculty and technical-administrative staff) work, alongside several dozen non-permanent staff (contract employees, research fellows, PhD students, trainees, scholarship holders, frequent graduates, undergraduates, etc.).

The Department hosts accredited and certified facilities, serves as the administrative headquarters for three Interdepartmental Centers, including two technology parks, and, in line with the policy directions of the Emilia-Romagna Region, has promoted the creation of several spin-off companies. These spin-offs represent a concrete example of integration between university and industry in a society that places particular emphasis on innovation and knowledge for sustainable development.

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Activities related to the Master’s Degree Programme in Food Safety and Food Risk Management – 2nd year – Food safety and product design 

curriculum are based within the Department of Chemical, Pharmaceutical and Agricultural Sciences (DOCPAS).

The Department of Chemical, Pharmaceutical and Agricultural Sciences (DOCPAS) was established in 2012 by merging the Department of Chemistry and the Department of Pharmaceutical Science.

Today, DOCPAS counts about 40 Professors, 30 Researchers and 10 employees as technical staff.

The scientific areas covered by DOCPAS include: Analytical Chemistry, Physical Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry, Organic Chemistry, Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Pharmaceutical Technology, Industrial Chemistry, Food Chemistry, Agricultural Chemistry, Environmental Chemistry and Ecology, Biochemistry.

DOCPAS is located near the town center between Via Luigi Borsari 46 and Giuseppe Sgarbi Square. Two buildings (Polo Chimico Biomedico Mammuth, “C” building, and Chiostro di Santa Maria delle Grazie) host both research and student laboratories together with teaching rooms, study rooms and one Scientific Library.

DOCPAS can be easily reached by public transport from the train station in less than  20 minutes.

Other Departments, such as Medicine, Life Sciences and Biotechnology, and strategic research and educational centers, such as Microscopy, Cosmetology, Translational Neurophysiology, Laboratory for Preclinical Research, Unife Master School for higher education, are located in the same area.

https://docpas.unife.it/en