Event ‘Quality pig breeding techniques in Central Italy’

During this four-days event, experts from Italy, Poland, Greece, Portugal and Lithuania had the opportunity to exchange ideas, innovation and experiences with speakers presenting the lively livestock and pork butchery world of the Gran Sasso-Laga Park protected area, through the voices of researchers, professors, technicians, as well as sector operators.
The event was organized online by the Italian partner Gran Sasso-Laga National Park in the period 18-20/01/2022.

In addition to the project partners, the following external speakers contributed to the peer-training event:
Elia Capolungo, Leila Cirafisi, Claudia Giannone (Faculty of Bioscience and Technology for Food, Agriculture and Environment, University of Teramo); Alessandra Azzariti (pig breeder); Anita Ciampana (postgraduate student in inspection of food of animal origin Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Naples Federico II); Salvatore Di Angelo, Emidio Falasca (pig producers); Gianfranco Castelli (“Sano Salumi”, pig producer); Emilio Chiodo (Faculty of Bioscience and Technology for Food, Agriculture and Environment, University of Teramo); Maria Gabriella Leonetti (“Salumeria del Parco”, pig producer); Gino Carpente (La piccola Fattoria sull’Aterno, pig breeder); Fulvia Di Bernardo (“I salumieri di Castel Castagna”, pig producer); Ugo Paolini (“Nonna Ina, pig producer); Piotr Pietrzak, Chair of the Chancellor’s Committee on Rankings and Member of the working team for education quality at SGGW.