| Data | Inizio | Fine | Sintesi della lezione | Luogo | ||
| 01/10/2025 | 14:00 | 16:00 | General information about the course: objectives, program and contents, period and time of lessons, exam methods and dates, evaluation criteria during the exam, teaching material. Definition, general framework and challenges of the bioeconomy. Importance of the bioeconomy for the national economy, with particular reference to the agri-food sector. | Polo di Agraria | Edificio A3 | Aula 12 |
| 08/10/2025 | 14:00 | 17:00 | The EU Bioeconomy Strategy and its evolution since 2012. Vision of a multi-stakeolder debate on the 2025 revision of the Bioeconomy Strategy (part 1, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHQE0ZrGmDc). | Polo di Agraria | Edificio A3 | Aula 12 |
| 09/10/2025 | 11:00 | 13:00 | Vision of a multi-stakeolder debate on the 2025 revision of the Bioeconomy Strategy (part 2, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHQE0ZrGmDc). | Polo di Agraria | Edificio A3 | Aula 12 |
| 15/10/2025 | 14:00 | 17:00 | Principles and goals of the European Green Deal, and the related Strategies. | Polo di Agraria | Edificio A3 | Aula 12 |
| 16/10/2025 | 11:00 | 13:00 | Vision of a masterclass lesson on the European Green Deal (part 1, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVU_ihjgW5A&t=4824s). | Polo di Agraria | Edificio A3 | Aula 12 |
| 22/10/2025 | 14:00 | 16:00 | Vision of a masterclass lesson on the European Green Deal (part 2, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVU_ihjgW5A&t=4824s). | Polo di Agraria | Edificio A3 | Aula 12 |
| 23/10/2025 | 11:00 | 13:00 | A specific focus on the goals set by the Farm To Fork strategy for the European agri-food sector. | Polo di Agraria | Edificio A3 | Aula 12 |
| 29/10/2025 | 14:00 | 16:00 | Vision of a policy seminar on the Farm To Fork strategy for sustainable food (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnXQ1yzBRDg&t=4205s). | Polo di Agraria | Edificio A3 | Aula 12 |
| 30/10/2025 | 11:00 | 13:00 | Group work in class on the potential contribution of the Biotechnologies in achieving the goals set for the EU agriculture sector by the Farm To Fork strategy. | Polo di Agraria | Edificio A3 | Aula 12 |
| 05/11/2025 | 14:00 | 16:00 | The EU Industrial Emissions Directive (2010/75/EU) and its 2024 revision. | Polo di Agraria | Edificio A3 | Aula 12 |
| 06/11/2025 | 11:00 | 13:00 | Vision of a policy seminar on the revision of EU Industrial Emissions Directive. The Global Methane Pledge and relevance of ruminants rearing activities in methane anthropogenic emissions. | Polo di Agraria | Edificio A3 | Aula 12 |
| 13/11/2025 | 11:00 | 13:00 | Introduction of some completed and ongoing research: production and economic impacts from reducing crop inputs (fertilizers and agrochemicals) on Italian farms according to the provisions of the Farm To Fork strategy, using the AGRITALIM model. | Polo di Agraria | Edificio A3 | Aula 12 |
| 19/11/2025 | 14:00 | 17:00 | Introduction of some completed and ongoing research: production and economic impacts from jointly reducing crop inputs and antimicrobials for livestock on specialized Italian livestock farms according to the provisions of the Farm To Fork strategy, using the AGRITALIM model. | Polo di Agraria | Edificio A3 | Aula 12 |
| 20/11/2025 | 11:00 | 13:00 | Introduction of some completed and ongoing research: production and economic impacts of setting taxes on methane emissions, subsidies on their reduction and a combined economic policy instrument to curb methane emissions from Italian livestock sector, using the AGRITALIM model. | Polo di Agraria | Edificio A3 | Aula 12 |
| 26/11/2025 | 14:00 | 16:00 | Introduction of some completed and ongoing research: digital transition of farms: an analysis of the economic convenience to adopt innovative technologies. | Polo di Agraria | Edificio A3 | Aula 12 |
| 27/11/2025 | 11:00 | 13:00 | Practical excercise on the application of the Cost-Benefit Analysis to ex-ante evaluate the financial sustainability of breeding programs based on traditional approach and on novel breeding techniques. | Polo di Agraria | Edificio A3 | Aula 12 |
| 03/12/2025 | 14:00 | 17:00 | Fundamentals of economics, first concepts: circular flow diagram, frontier of production possibilities, opportunity-cost. | Polo di Agraria | Edificio A3 | Aula 12 |
| 04/12/2025 | 11:00 | 13:00 | Midterm test. | Polo di Agraria | Edificio A3 | Aula 12 |
| 10/12/2025 | 14:00 | 16:00 | Fundamentals of economics: market demand function and its determinants; market supply function and its determinants; market equilibrium; characteristics of markets in perfect competition; demand and supply elasticity to price; characteristics of goods with elastic/inelastic demand and supply (the case of agri-food products); effects of variations of market price on total revenues in presence of an elastic/inelastic demand function. | Polo di Agraria | Edificio A3 | Aula 12 |
| 11/12/2025 | 11:00 | 13:00 | Fundamentals of economics: consumers producers and market efficiency; consumers' and producers' surplus and its maximization at market equilibrium; law of decreasing consumers' marginal utility; law of decreasing marginal productivity of production factors. | Polo di Agraria | Edificio A3 | Aula 12 |
| 17/12/2025 | 14:00 | 16:00 | Fundamentals of economics: supply, demand and economic policy; approaches to market regulamentation (price regulation and the effects of taxation on demand, supply and market equilibrium). | Polo di Agraria | Edificio A3 | Aula 12 |
| 18/12/2025 | 11:00 | 13:00 | Fundamentals of economics: cases market failures; definition and characteristics of market externalities and instruments for their correction (Pigouvian taxes and subsidies, tradable permits); definition and characteristics of public goods. | Polo di Agraria | Edificio A3 | Aula 12 |