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Awards and Recognitions
World's Top 2% Scientists: thirty Distal scientists are in the ranking
Thirty professors of the nine million scientists operating in the world in 2023 are among the 2% with more citations

Awards and Recognitions
REDESIGN, the Horizon Europe Project will be co-coordinated by Michele D'Ostuni and Francesco Orsini
Transformative food value systems reshaping resilient urban landscape

International
DeepHorizon Project – kick-off meeting in Belgium: October 22-25, 2024
10 countries, 20 partners meet in Belgium for the kick-off meeting of DeepHorizon Project
Innovation and Research
UrbanFarm 2024: Integrating social, economic and environmental sustainability pillars for inmates rehabilitation in the new Trelleborg prison in Sweden
14th book in the UrbanFarm series, this collection of projects and texts refers to the results of the sixth edition of the international competition for students UrbanFarm Student Challenge

Awards and Recognitions
Agata Morelli won “Young Mind Award” at the international symposium Greener Cities 2024
The recognition has been given to young researchers who have given outstanding presentations of their work

Meetings and Initiatives
Accademic collaboration between Ada University and the DISTAL
The journey of Saida Aliyeva in microbiology: from environment to food

International
Distal hosted a study trip for farmers organized by the Wielkopolska Agricultural Advisory Center in Poznań (Poland)
The topic of the trip was "EU support as a driving force for agricultural development." This issue was addressed by the Network for Innovation in Agriculture and Rural Areas team

International
EQA-International Journal of Environmental Quality, volume 64 (2024) is now online
EQA is an open access international, multidisciplinary and peer-reviewed journal

Awards and Recognitions
Sergio Rivaroli has been awarded as Outstanding Paper of the 2024 Emerald Literati Awards for Excellence of the International Journal of Wine Business Research
Won for the second time after the one in 2021, the Emerald Literati Awards is a prestigious award that since 30 years has been recognized by Emerald in various categories

Innovation and Research
EQA-International Journal of Environmental Quality, volume 63 (2024) is now online
It is an open access international, multidisciplinary and peer-reviewed journal

International
EQA-International Journal of Environmental Quality, volume 62 (2024) is now online
EQA is an open access international, multidisciplinary and peer-reviewed journal

Innovation and Research
BUSCOB: bifidobacteria for a new future
The BUSCOB is the collection of bifidobacteria of the University of Bologna housed in the Department of Agricultural and Food Sciences within the Laboratory of Agro-Environmental and Food Microbiology