SARDINIA SUMMER SCHOOL - NUORO, SARDINIA, ITALY JULY 23-27, 2018 - UNDER CLIMATE CHANGE
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SARDINIA
SARDINIA SUMMER SCHOOL
17-23 July 2017
Nuoro, Italy
SUMMER SCHOOL
Consorzio Universitario Nuoro
G S Y S T E M S
L E FA R M I N
S U S TA I N A B G E
E L L I N G T E C H A N
MOD UNDE R C L I M A
NUORO, SARDINIA, ITALY
JULY 23-27, 2018
SARDINIA SUMMER SCHOOL
July 23-27, 2018
Nuoro, Italy
www.uninuoro.it/summerschool
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Nuoro, Italy
OBJECTIVES
Climate change is threatening agricultural productivity focus will be given to the management of long term
worldwide while world food demand is steadily increa- soil fertility, hydrology, greenhouse gas emission
sing. Such global challenge is framed by UN sustainable mitigation and adaptive responses to climatic pressu-
development goals and calls for integrated approaches res, relying on specific case studies, to improve the
and quantitative tools for the risk assessment and the participants' ability to critically understand the complex
identification of viable options. interactions between biophysical and social processes
The summer school on “Modelling sustainable farming that characterize sustainable development in a context
systems under climate change” is designed to enhance of climate change.
the capacities of students to design resilient and The scientific debate on this topic is of interest at the
sustainable cropping systems through different model- scientific community level including the IPCC
ling approaches at field and landscape scale. A central (https://www.ipcc.ch/) as it is relevant for the proposed
focus of the school is on the application of modelling climate change mitigation policies.
tools such as EPIC, APEX and DSSAT to case studies on
climate change risk assessment, and sustainable
intensification through precision agriculture. A special
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LECTURERS Assistants
Antonio PULINA and Laura MULA
Giovanna SEDDAIU Desertification Research Centre (NRD)
Associate professor, Università di Sassari Department of Agricultural Sciences
Sassari, IT (University of Sassari)
Sassari, IT
Fabrizio Rossi
Climate-KIC’s education and capacity building for Antonio GANGA
innovation and Climate action Department of Agricultural Sciences
Bruxelles, BE (University of Sassari)
Sassari, IT
Davide CAMMARANO, PhD
Research Scientist, James Hutton Institute
Aberdeen, UK
Luca DORO, PhD
Research Scientist, Blackland Research
& Extension Center
Texas A&M University, Temple, Tx, USA
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INFO PARTICIPATION
ADMISSION AND SCHOLARSHIPS
The School is targeted to graduates, doctoral and includes downloadable course material and the
post-doctoral students in environmental disciplines, participation diploma. Successful candidates will
agronomy, soil science, applied biology, natural receive information about modes of payment once
resource management, landscape planning, environ- admitted to the School. All applicants can apply for a
mental sciences from all over the world. Given the scholarship.
highly interactive activities planned at the Summer
School, the number of participants is limited to 30.
Accepted applicants will be requested to pay a
participation fee of EUR 150. The participation fee
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BENEFITS
In addition to tuition, downloadable course
material and the participation diploma the course
ACCOMODATION fee also covers the following:
>> Free entry to the gym and swimming pool at
Summer School participants may take advantage of
Località Farcana – Monte Ortobene, Nuoro;
a special inclusive price of 350 Euros per person, for
seven nights at a local 3-star hotel. This price covers >> Free entry to: MAN Nuoro Provincial Art
accommodation in a double room together with Museum; ISRE Sardinian Ethnographic Museum;
half pension (breakfast and one meal per day). If ISRE Birth place and museum Grazia Deledda
you are interested in this offer, please note this in (Nobel Prize for Literature, 1926);
your enrolment e-mail. There is a surcharge of
>> Free access to local transport.
€20.00 per day for the single room at the hotel.
>> Transfer and B&B accommodation at the
Montes Forest natural area (Orgosolo, central
Sardinia).
>> Excursion at Monte Novo San Giovanni with a
typical Sardinian lunch
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SCHOOL PROGRAMME
Introductory lectures Modelling spatial and temporal variability
G. Seddaiu D. Cammarano
>> Sustainable farming systems, climate change >> Concepts of Spatial and Temporal variability and
adaptation and mitigation how to manage it
F. Rossi >> Factors affecting the spatial and temporal variability
>> Climate-KIC’s education and capacity building >> Soil chemical and physical variability within the field
for innovation and Climate action >> The use of crop models in precision agriculture and
site-specific management
Introduction to crop modelling
Modelling the soil-plant-atmosphere
L. Doro interaction the DSSAT model
>> Modelling plant growth >> Theory of the model
and soil-water-nutrient relationships >> Brief description of the Graphic user interface
>> Structure of input and output files >> Examples of model runs
The EPIC and APEX models Case studies
for cropping system simulation at field and
catchment scales D. Cammarano
>> Regional integrated assessment:
L. Doro
a lesson from AgMIP
>> User interfaces
>> An example of a regional integrated assessment
>> Design and creation of a “run”
from South Africa.
>> Model calibration (use of available parameters)
Case studies
L. Doro
>> EPIC/APEX model applications to climate change
risk assessment
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APPLICATION
FORM AND DEADLINE
FIRST NAME(S) ___________________________________________________________________________
FAMILY/LAST NAME _______________________________________________________________________
GENDER ________________________________________________________________________________
HOME UNIVERSITY ________________________________________________________________________
DEPARTMENT ____________________________________________________________________________
DEGREE COURSE (IF APPLICABLE) _____________________________________________________________
COUNTRY _______________________________________________________________________________
NATIONALITY (as in your passport) ____________________________________________________________
E-MAIL ADDRESS _________________________________________________________________________
TELEPHONE NUMBER ______________________________________________________________________
ACCOMODATION (please state if you need an accomodation for your stay in Nuoro. For further information
please see the ACCOMODATION section): YES/NO.
Please send a single .pdf file containing the application form and a curriculum to the School Secretariat
(segreteriadidattica@uninuoro.it).
The final deadline for applying to the Summer School is June 15, 2018.
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LONDON
BERLIN
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PARIS
MILAN
MARSEILLE GENOA
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MADRID
CIVITAVECCHIA
ROME
SARDINIA
GOLFO ARANCI
1h 20’
3h 20’
PORTO TORRES
1h 35’ SASSARI OLBIA
HOW TO ARRIVE 3h 1h 10’
2h 40
IN SARDINIA
ALGHERO-FERTILIA
1h 50’ NUORO
3h 20’
BY PLANE TORTOLÌ-ARBATAX
1h 15’
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NUORO
Consorzio Universitario Nuoro
Via Salaris, 18
Piazza Berlinguer P.za V. Emanuele, 18
Via Monsignor Melas, 14
Viale Sardegna, 43
MAIN VENUES
SUMMER SCHOOL ADDRESS TAXI
Via Salaris, 18 +39 392 2182350
BUS TERMINAL BUS and TRAIN web address
Viale Sardegna, 43 http://arst.sardegna.it
BUS STOP FOR SWIMMING POOL LOCAL PUBLIC TRANSPORT
Piazza Vittorio Emanuele, 18 http://www.atpnuoro.it/
TRAIN STATION
Piazza Berlinguer
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CONTACTS
Summer School Director
Pier Paolo ROGGERO
Department of Agricultural Sciences
University of Sassari
pproggero@uniss.it
Summer School Secretariat
Gian Franco CAPRA
Department of Architecture, Design and Urban Planning (DADU)
University of Sassari
pedolnu@uniss.it
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BANKING DATA
FEE AND PAYMENTS
TESORERIA BANCO DI SARDEGNA
FILIALE DI NUORO
By June 15, 2018 applicants will be IBAN: IT03Y0101517300000070420885
requested to pay a participation fee of PAYMENT REFERENCE: “SURNAME” - Modelling sustainable farming
EUR 150. The fee will be refunded only in systems under climate change - July 2018
case the school is not activated because
RECIPIENT: Consorzio per la promozione degli Studi universitari
there will not be enough participants or the
nella Sardegna centrale, Via Salaris n. 18, Nuoro.
applicant exceeds 30 participants.
Applications will be accepted in the order of BIC (swift code): BPMOIT22XXX
arrival. In order to complete the registration,
a copy of the completed bank transfer and a
copy of the ID document in PDF format
must be sent by email to:
segreteriadidattica@uninuoro.it
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ORGANIZERS
Consorzio Universitario Nuoro
https://en.uniss.it/nrd
PARTNERSHIP
Forestas
Agentzia forestale regionale pro s'isvilupu de su
territòriu e de s'ambiente de sa Sardigna
Agenzia forestale regionale per lo sviluppo del
territorio e dell'ambiente della Sardegna
www.desertnet-international.org
GNDRI
GLOBAL NETWORK OF DRYLAND RESEARCH INSTITUTES
www.agmip.org www.macsur.eu
www.gndri.net
www.pedologiasipe.it
www.siagr.it
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