2025 Conference Partner
The University of Pretoria (UP) is one of Africa’s top universities and the largest contact university in South Africa. They produce socially impactful research to find solutions for the world’s most pressing issues.
2024 Conference Partner
The Polytechnic of Portalegre is a public Higher Education institution that integrates the Higher School of Education and Social Sciences ( ESECS-IPPortalegre ), the Higher School of Technology and Management ( ESTG-IPPortalegre ), the Higher School of Health ( ESS-IPPortalegre ), in Portalegre, and the Escola Superior Agrária ( ESAE-IPPortalegre ), in Elvas.
2023 Conference Partner
At the beginning of a new millennium, the University of Guadalajara is a vigorous community, heir to an educational tradition forged along more than two centuries. To its University Centers located in the Metropolitan Area of Guadalajara and eight regions of Jalisco 280,297 students come every day to study in the 422 vocational, high school, undergraduate an graduate academic programs the University offers.
2023 Conference Partner
Centro Universitario de Ciencias Exactas e Ingenierías, CUCEI, is one of the thematic centers that make up the University Network of Jalisco, serving more than 15,000 students to date through 18 undergraduate and 20 postgraduate degrees.
Through an organizational model of a departmental nature, it develops and generates knowledge as a central element for the fulfillment of its functions of teaching, research and university extension.
2022 Conference Partner
Marymount Manhattan College is an independent, private, dynamic liberal arts college on the Upper East Side of Manhattan.
2021 Conference Partner
Established in 1928, Aarhus University has since developed into a major Danish university with a strong international reputation across the entire research spectrum.
2019 Conference Partner
The founding principles of the National Kaohsiung University of Hospitality and Tourism are:
2017 Conference Partner
Gustolab International Institute for Food Studies (GLi) is the first center in Italy to create and provide Food Studies related study abroad programs to international universities, and especially to US universities. GLi works actively with professors, professionals, farmers, entrepreneurs and designers to create and develop specialized Food Studies programs. For the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, and the University of Massachusetts Amherst, GLi is the Italian headquarters for study abroad programs on food culture, media and communication, sustainability, and food businesses.
2017 Conference Partner
Founded in 1992, Roma Tre University has gained a significant reputation in the academic world thanks to its quality teaching and research programmes.
Located in the heart of Rome, it strives toward a leading role in the cultural and technological innovation of the knowledge society, as well as toward its sustainable development.
Scientific research is, together with education, a primary function of universities. It is the engine of critical knowledge, creativity, innovation and competitiveness, the basis for all teaching activities. Roma Tre carries out and supports research projects aimed at developing proficient labs, the international circulation of knowledge, the recruitment of young researchers and advanced international PhD programmes.
Roma Tre University issues the Certification of Italian as a Foreign Language, which is officially recognised by the Italian State through Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Though the University Language Centre Roma Tre organises many language courses, including intensive Italian for foreigners.
Roma Tre offers excellence in higher education through bachelor and master degree courses as well as PhD programmes. It is a teaching institution built around its students and their inclinations, as well as around the requirements of the labour market. Roma Tre offers degree courses, including Master’s Degrees and PhD programmes, in Architecture, Economics, Education Sciences, Engineering, Law, Humanities and Liberal Arts, Political Science, Mathematics, Physics and Natural Sciences.
Network Partner
Time matures the olive tree respectfully but leaves its mark. It wizens the tree, twisting and shrinking it, gradually hollowing it out. It fills its branches with golden treasures with hard stones, but also with knotted joints and rugged striations Age matures the olive tree making it stronger, nobler and wiser. And although it is not immortal, it gives all the appearance of being so. It persists in the memory like beloved people long gone live on in our hearts. Its values, know-how and traditions are passed lovingly from one generation to the next, forming part of the most beautiful tree of them all: the family tree.
These are the roots of Sagaz, an olive oil as old as the hills and full of history. Everybody has a tale to be told and the story of Sagaz is the tale of the Latorre family and the more than magic mountain-range of Sierra Mágina.
Network Partner
Slow Food is an idea, a way of living and a way of eating. It is a global, grassroots movement with thousands of members around the world that links the pleasure of food with a commitment to community and the environment.
Slow Food San Francisco started in the late '80s after Lorenzo Scarpone, a native Italian and SF resident first met Carlo Petrini. It began with the Slow Food office in New York that helped gather about 20 people from restaurants that shared the Slow Food philosophy. The initial membership consisted of just 18-20 people who received a printed newsletter about every two-three months. The first meetings, held at local restaurants that promoted Slow Food values, had a specific themes. One of the first meetings was an Olive Oil tasting at Vivande moderated by Darryl Corti. Another early meeting included a taste comparison between Petaluma cheese and honey and the cheese and honey made in Gran Sasso National Park in Abruzzo, Italy.
Early on the members each paid their own tab at the restaurant and Villa Italia, Scarpone's wine importing business, paid the operating expenses for the convivium. Local philanthropic activities were a central piece of the organization from the start as well. The first event was a dinner at Davies Symphony Hall catered by Vito and Carol Passero to raise money for a donation to the Arthritis Foundation. And, for two years the convivium held a mini Golden Glass-style fundraiser to benefit the Arthritis Foundation of San Francisco. Together with Barbara Bowman and Janet Mettler they also organized the first US press conference for Salone del Gusto in Italy and asked Carlo Petrini to speak. They had many visible people at this event one of whom was Alice Waters who stopped by briefly to meet Carlo Petrini. Under the guidance of Scarpone and other members, Slow Food San Francisco evolved to include over 800 members.
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