The challenges for the Strait Integrated Area also involve active collaboration between institutions and the academic world. With this hope, the project “Integrated mobility in the Strait Area – methods for agri-food logistics and passenger flows” was presented at Palazzo Campanella. An initiative that marks a significant transition also from an institutional point of view. For the first time, the Regional Council, through the Permanent Interregional Conference for the Coordination of Policies in the Strait Area, invests its own resources in academic research, allocating 133 thousand euros to this project. The initiative was illustrated by the president of the regional council, Salvatore Cirillo, by the rector of the Mediterranea, Giuseppe Zimbalatti, by the director of the Department of Agriculture, Marco Poiana and by the teachers Bruno Bernardi and Corrado Rindone, respectively of the agri-food logistics unit and the passenger mobility unit of the Diies. Coordinated by the spokesperson of the President of the Regional Council, Francesco Chindemi, the aspects of the agreement which will last 12 months were highlighted. A choice that the president of the Regional Council and of the Interregional Conference, Salvatore Cirillo, considers «significant, because it puts resources that have remained stagnant back into circulation, directing them towards research and opportunities for young people.
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