Italian Mountain Lab: collaboration between universities for innovation in mountain areas

The Italian Mountain Lab (IML) project – FISR project – MIUR special supplementary fund for research, led by the University of Milan, with its centre of excellence UNIMONT, the University of Tuscia and the University of Piedmont Oriental, produces new knowledge to prepare for the innovation that mountain territories need for sustainable development.

The alliance of the three universities involved in the “Italian Mountain Lab, Research and Innovation for mountain environment and territories” has been fundamental to promote the establishment of a higher education and research laboratory to protect the Italian mountains, based on the capitalization and strengthening of existing experiences and collaboration at a national and international level for the expansion of research activities, indispensable for bringing innovation to mountain areas and making the “highlands” competitive.

In addition to the activities of “Training and Information” and “Coordination and Networking”, the project includes “Research, Innovation and Technology Transfer” activities on issues strategic for mountain areas.

To date, more than 30 scientific contributions (articles, books and chapters in books) have been published, together with over 20 contributions at national and international conferences and at least 10 project proposals.

Below we report scientific articles published recently in international journals and the links where you can view them:

• Giupponi L., Leoni V. (2020). Alpine pioneer plants in soil bioengineering for slope stabilization and restoration: results of a preliminary analysis of seed germination and future perspectives. Sustainability 12: 7190. DOI:10.3390/su12177190. https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/12/17/7190/htm
• Piovesan G., Baliva M., Calcagnile L., D’Elia M., Dorado‐Liñán I., Palli J., Siclari A., Quarta G. (2020). Radiocarbon dating of Aspromonte sessile oaks reveals the oldest dated temperate flowering tree in the world. Ecology. DOI:10.1002/ecy.3179 https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ecy.3179
• Giupponi L., Leoni V., Pavlovic R., Giorgi A. (2020). Influence of altitude on phytochemical composition of hemp inflorescence: a metabolomic approach. Molecules 25(6): 1381. DOI: 10.3390/molecules25061381. https://www.mdpi.com/1420-3049/25/6/1381
• Pavlovic R., Borgonovo G., Leoni V., Giupponi L., Ceciliani G., Sala S., Bassoli A., Giorgi A. (2020). Effectiveness of different analytical methods for the characterization of propolis: a case of study in Northern Italy. Molecules 25(3): 504. https://www.mdpi.com/1420-3049/25/3/504

A complete list of scientific and informative publications produced by the Ge.S.Di.Mont Research Centre of UNIMONT can be consulted in the “Research” section, subsection “Scientific contributions” of the Unimont website.

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