Feeding people involves different forms of collaboration among multiple actors and stakeholders. These play different roles in the supply chain and the related processes across organizations and communities that collect raw materials, transform them and then distribute food products to the end consumers, both worldwide and on the zero mile food scale. ICTs and mobile technologies are more and more pervasively adopted to support the overall process and make collaboration seamless and sustainable in the often complex interplay of global and (increasingly more) local levels.The School program will be articulated along a number of themes; that address from different perspectives the overall socio-technical system linking food producers and food consumers, and the inherent challenges of designing, developing and maintaining computational means supporting its actors.

Course leader
Prof. Carla Simone

Target group
Bachelor degree is required to enter the program

Course aim
TOPICS COVEREDFood Culture, conviviality and information sharingCooperation and competition in firm clusters and supply chain for feedingCollaboration in the small and in the large: Convivial Tools supporting knowledge sharingProduction of open data and apps in the agricultural domainUser participation in sustainable collective actions and community exchangeUsers' appropriation of the socio-technical structures and infrastructures for feeding

Fee info
EUR 500: It covers tuition, teaching materials and tutoring services. plus 1 ticket and guided visit to EXPO Milan 2015 site. Also includes social and cultural activities program held by Erasmus Student Network Bicocca.

University of Milano-Bicocca
Address: Piazza dell'Ateneo Nuovo, 1
Postal code: 20126
City: Milan
Country: Italy
Website: http://www.summerschoolexpo2015.com
E-mail: summerschool@unimib.it
Phone: 02 64481