Centro Tecnico Regionale di Ricerca sul Consumo Europeo (I)

Person in charge: Marino Melissano (info@ctrrce.it)             
Main tasks in the project: WP7, WP9

Description of Participant and Expertise:
The Centre was established in 1995 with the support of EC CE - DG XXIV in order to organise courses and activities on consumers’ education to food consumption and adequate nutrition, safety at work and at work, Italian and European legislation.
The President of CTRRCE is Marino Melissano who has taught Food Technology, Food Chemistry and Chemical Analysis in several Technical and Commercial Higher Schools since 1992. He has also taught courses on Food Marketing and Marketable goods at the Universities of Trento, Bologna, Ferrara and Padova. Within CTRRCE he edited a monograph entitled “Good living trough a better consumption” for the Consumers Committee “Altroconsumo”. He also wrote for CTRRCE a monograph entitled “The nourishing label” in 2003. He is the Author of several books including “Natural sample, free sample”, “Marketable goods” and “Analysis of goods”.
He has been the coordinator of several national and European projects on consumers’ education to food consumption and food safety; in 2001 and 2002 he took part in a workgroup on the level of consumers satisfaction organised by the University of Rome.
From 1996 to 2000 he has organized updating courses for teachers of the district of Bolzano on food and consumption education.
Since 2003 he has taken part in a Socrates project on education to consumption, coordinated by the Metropolitan University of London, and in an ERASMUS 3 project on sustainable consumption, coordinated by the University of Hamar (Norway).

1 senior researcher with experience in food technology and consumer science will be involved in the project.

References relevant to the field of research:
EC Projects

• “Educazione al consumo - Concorso del giovane consumatore europeo “ (B5-1010/95/000065 CE DG SANCO – years 2005-2006)
• “Educazione al consumo - Concorso del giovane consumatore europeo” (B5-1020/97/000015 CE DG SANCO – year 1997)
• “Educazione al consumo - Concorso del giovane consumatore europeo” (B5-1000/01/000146 CE DG SANCO – years 2001 - 2002)
• “Educazione al consumo - European consumption network of schools” (www.educonsumer.net) (B5-1000/02/000405 CE DG SANCO – years 2002 – 2004)
• “Information from labels” (www.etichettinform.net) (N. 17.0200100.01/0 4(03)/377709 CE DG Sanco – years 2003 – 2005)
• “A Consumer Welfare Analysis of the Retail Distribution Market in 15 EU Member States” (years 2005 – 2007)