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Paola De Bernardi
Paola De Bernardi is a Professor of Management Control Systems and Circular Economy Management at the University of Turin. Her research activities include several areas including: Sustainable Business Model Innovation; Entrepreneurial University; Impact of digitization andIndustry 4.0 technologies on business models; Alternative food network based on digital platform and many others. From 2019 she led several hackathons like EUvsVirus and European H2020 Knowledge and Innovation Communities (EIT-KIC) Digital Education Hackathon project under the European strategy “Digital Education Action Plan” with the challenge: “DigieduHack 4 Urban Food Circularity”. She is a member of the Accademia Italiana di Economia Aziendale (AIDEA/SIDREA) and a member of the ECESP Leadership Group-Food Waste, Food Systems, Bioeconomy. She has been with EIT Food since 2018, starting as a coordinator for the University of Turin of Global Food Venture (GFV) and Innovator Fellowship Programs. She is leading several education programmes (summer schools, MOOC, Professional Development courses or SMEs, etc.) and is a Mentor for EIT Food Accelerator Network (EIT FAN) since 2020. On behalf of the Department of Management she has been accepted as New European Bauhaus partner. She is designing and developing forEIT NEB community the first Short Open Online Course on New European Bauhaus for the digital platform Future Learn.
Paola De Bernardi completed her Bachelor Degree in Business Administration from the University of Turin in 1993 and was a scholar and tutor with the Economic Faculty of the University of Eastern Piedmont from 1994-1999. She has been on the Editorial Advisory Board for British Food Journal since 2019 and has worked on several projects such as the MIUR programme, Bando Technological Platform “Industry 4.0”, Food Digital Monitoring” (2018-2020) and the Horizon 2020 “Smart Circular Procurement (CircPRO)” (2018-2023). She has spoken at several Circular Economy events and has many publications such as Entrepreneurial universities; A bibliometric analysis within the business and management domains 2021; The contribution of sensor-based equipment to life cycle assessment through improvement of data collection in the industry 2021 and The relevance of climate-related risks on corporate financial and non financial disclosure in Italian listed companies 2019. See Google Schoolar https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=it&user=zIVFBYwAAAAJ&view_op=list_works&sortby=pubdate