Project Partners:
Comune di Cremona - Camera di Commercio di Cremona
Provincia di Cremona - Istituto Gregorio XIV per l’Educazione e la Cultura.
Cremona Agri-food Lab 2024-2026
Sustainability and sustainable development are now benchmark concepts in business management. Despite the increasingly widespread familiarity with these concepts, for many companies, especially small and medium-sized ones, it is still unclear what benefit the adoption of a sustainable strategy could bring and, above all, the real extent of the investment required, in financial, organisational, human and relational terms.
In the Cremona Agri-food Lab 2024-2026 project, the research centre aims to develop and implement a self-assessment model for sustainable innovation and change in agri-food enterprises. Deepening knowledge on how to effectively implement a sustainability orientation and innovate corporate business models, as well as assessing the sustainability of a company, is particularly relevant with reference to the agri-food chain.
The focus: Cremona's agrifood chain
The project is dedicated to the agri-food chain in the Cremona area: the choice of this chain originates from the importance that companies in this sector represent for Italy's production heritage as well as from the opportunity to investigate the potential positive effects that sustainability can generate with respect to this type of production.
The choice of the Università Cattolica to dedicate itself to such a specific supply chain is linked to the attention that the project intends to devote to its own territories: the Po Valley, where some of our sites are located, is home to some of the most important companies in the sector, as well as trade associations that promote and valorise, among other things, some of the best-known Italian food products.
The activities are carried out within the Cremona Agri-food Lab 2024-2026 project with the contribution of the Municipality of Cremona, the Chamber of Commerce of Cremona, the Province of Cremona and the Gregorio XIV Institute for Education and Culture