FIRST FEDERICIAN EURO-MEDITERRANEAN DAYS

FOOD AND HEALTH

17 October, 2025

Palazzo Gravina, Great Hall, Department of Architecture

Health, Nutrition, and the Environment: A Euro-Mediterranean Dialogue for the Future

The final day, October 17, of the event "First Frederician Euro-Mediterranean Days, An Intercultural Journey," promoted by the SULIEIA Project, coordinated by the University of Naples Federico II in partnership with the Mediterranean and Middle East University Network (MUNA), will be organized in collaboration with the Interdepartmental Center for Environmental Research (C.I.R.AM.), a group of 11 departments of the University of Naples Federico II, and will focus on the relationship between health, nutrition, the environment, and society.

The event will take place at the Architecture Faculty at Via Monteoliveto 3 in Naples and will be coordinated by Massimo Fagnano, Vice Director of C.I.R.AM. and a recognized scientific expert in soil remediation, and by Fagr Kh. Abdel-Gawad, MUNA Coordinator in Egypt and a specialist in water remediation and food safety.

The event will open with a presentation by Anna Maria Colao and Giovanna Muscogiuri on the Mediterranean diet, followed by a presentation by Olfa Hentati, MUNA coordinator in Tunisia, on new Mediterranean plant resources suitable for medicinal purposes. This will be followed by presentations analyzing the "One Heath" approach from a veterinary perspective (Aniello Anastasio and Laura Rinaldi), soil contamination and reproductive health (Orish Ebere Orisakwe, MUNA coordinator in Nigeria), and microbiological perspectives (Danilo Ercolini and Francesca De Filippis). The morning will conclude with presentations on milk quality (Jacopo Guccione and Raffaele Marrone), plant products for therapeutic use (Samira Mansour, MUNA coordinator in Egypt), and the relationship between social evolution and food in North Africa (Khalid Mouna, MUNA delegate in Morocco).

The objectives of the day, emphasized Professor Giulia Guerriero, Director of C.I.R.AM., are to explore the many aspects linking the environment, nutrition, and global health, through contributions and reflections from across the Mediterranean.

The initiative is based on the understanding that only through scientific knowledge and the strengthening of international collaborations will it be possible to achieve genuine and lasting social, cultural, and health progress, for the benefit of the community and future generations.