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Palazzo Calepini, currently serving as the headquarters for Fondazione Caritro, dates back to the late 16th century and was built at the behest of the noble Calepini family from the Giudicarie valleys. Between 1823 and 1844, Palazzo Calepini served as the seat of the Prince Bishops of Trento. In 1999, the building was acquired by the foundation to be used as their institutional headquarters.

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Pietro Franceschi earned his PhD in Physics from the University of Trento in 2004. His current research interests range from the development to the application of methods for the analysis and interpretation of complex data, with a specific focus on statistical modeling, chemometrics, machine learning, and artificial intelligence.

Head of the Digital Agriculture Research Unit

Pietro Franceschi

Graduated in Biomolecular Sciences and Technologies, she gained 5 years of experience in the Research and Development department of the Melinda Consortium, with a primary focus on circular economy, sustainability, and digitalization. Currently, she also holds the role of Sustainability Manager, overseeing and reporting on the Consortium's sustainability path.

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Jasmine Chini

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Viola Scalet

Technologist, active in grapevine breeding and breeder of various varieties at FEM. He is the author of over 320 scientific articles. President of PIWI Italy.

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Marco Stefanini

Fabio Zottele, eng. works in agrometeorology and precision agriculture, developing decision support systems for vineyards and orchards. He integrates modeling, climate data, and digital technologies. He introduced the Landscapital concept and serves on the scientific-technical committee of CERVIM.

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Fabio Zottele

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Cultivating the future: young people, skills and innovation in agriculture

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A journey, with the biologist and disseminator Claudia Fachinetti, through a story as exciting and sparkling as the foam of the sea, to discover the ocean floor and its amazing inhabitants. Event for children by reservation at the museum MUSE

A treasure trove of biodiversity in the heart of Trento. The museum garden occupies about 2000 square meters, and is composed of grassy meadows and a pond, whose waters reflect the light glass architecture of the large tropical greenhouse. The garden also includes the gardens and the museum's centenary vineyard, a botanical garden that accompanies you among medicinal plants, vegetables and shrubs from all over the world. An oasis of tranquility where you can observe the ever-changing nature and busy life of the bugs staying at the Bug Hotel.

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A naturalist and science journalist, she works in communications and events in the environmental and cultural sectors. She currently heads the press office at Rizzoli and Fabbri Ragazzi, writes children’s books, and, since 2024, has been artistic director of the children’s and family literature festival Un Naviglio di Libri in Cernusco sul Naviglio (Milan).

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Claudia Fachinetti

Operation Abysses

The palace was built shortly before 1740 on the initiative of the noble Trentini family. The façade, developed in height and characterized by a sober balcony, is among the most elegant of the eighteenth century in Trentino. The interior rooms were decorated between 1750 and 1765 by the Veronese painters Giorgio Anselmi and Orlando Fattori, the Bolzan painter Carl Henrici and the Milanese painter Pietro Antonio Bianchi. Also notable are the exuberant white and gold stucco and the majolica stoves in rococo shapes.Palazzo Trentini is now the seat of the Council of the Autonomous Province of Trento, with the Presidency and all the offices of the entity. The Sala dell 'Aurora, which will host some of the Festival's events, is considered the Palace's most prestigious venue. It is dominated by a large vault decorated with fake architecture and frescoed around 1750 with the Triumph of the Dawn, an allegory of the rise of the Trentini family, by an excellent Venetian school artist whose identity is still disputed by scholars.

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An economist and sustainability advisor. He is the founder of Collectibus, a consulting firm supporting companies in integrating sustainability into strategy. He has worked with WWF, global communications groups such as WPP and in consulting at EY. Serves on the board of Action Against Hunger Italy and is a member of Sustainability Makers.

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Danilo Devigili

The sustainability formula

Federica Buffa is Associate Professor of Management at the Dept. of Economics and Management, University of Trento. She coordinates the Master’s degree Sustainability Management and Tourism (LM MaST). Her research focuses on destination management, sustainable tourism, multi-stakeholder systems, stakeholder engagement, community participation.

Federica Buffa

Paolo Gerbaldo, journalist and historian. From 1998 to 2001, he was a member of the board of directors of the Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Savigliano. Since 2020, he has been a professor of Sociology and (economic) history of mountain territories within the Executive Master in mountain and insular local development offered by SAA-School of Management of Turin.

Journalist and historian


Paolo Gerbaldo

Filippo Monge is a professor in Business Management and Economics of Innovation @ University of Torino. From 2010 to 2012 he was a member of National Council for Economy and Labour (CNEL, Italian Government) and, later, member of the board of Istituto Guglielmo Tagliacarne (Rome). Since 2020 he is the scientific coordinator of an executive master in mountain and small islands local development (in partnership with UNCEM and ANCIM).

Filippo Monge

Roots and visions: the mountains that attract. New models of sustainable development and entrepreneurship in mountain areas

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Palazzo Sardagna, current home of the offices of the Rectorate of the University of Trento, is one of the masterpieces of Mannerism and early Baroque in Trentino. Dating from the 16th century, the building is built around a large central courtyard, the largest among those found in the city's historic buildings. From the exterior, walking through the entrance hall embellished with heraldic coats of arms, one enters the courtyard punctuated by a double order of loggias and long galleries.

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Navi Radjou is a French-American innovation and leadership scholar. Since 2021, he is ranked by Thinkers50 as one of the 50 most influential management thinkers in the world. His new book The Frugal Economy, shows how businesses and nations can generate inclusive growth and maximize citizens’ well-being within planetary boundaries

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