"First Federiciane Euro-Mediterranean Days."

On October 17, 2025, the University of Naples Federico II, on the occasion of the Naples 2025 celebrations, will host the third and final day of the "First Federiciane Euro-Mediterranean Days." The initiative is part of the SULIEIA project, which promotes academic cooperation, digital transition, educational innovation and environmental protection. The activities are coordinated locally and internationally by Giulia Guerriero, Director of C.I.R.AM. and MUNA Coordinator on the Board of Coordinators.

The day, titled Food and Health Day, will be dedicated to the relationship between health, nutrition, environment and society with contributions from experts and scholars from universities in the Mediterranean and Africa.

The morning session, scheduled at Palazzo Gravina (Aula Magna), will be opened by institutional greetings from Gilberto Sammartino, MUNA Rectors and Valeria Costantino (Erasmus delegate and Principal Investigator of the SULIEIA project). The proceedings will be coordinated by the Chair Sessions: Massimo Fagnano, deputy director of C.I.R.AM. and recognized scientific reference in soil remediation and by Olfa Hentati, MUNA coordinator in Tunisia and expert in Mediterranean natural resources with therapeutic and nutraceutical potential. Anna Maria Colao's Lectio Magistralis will be dedicated to the Mediterranean diet as a planetary model of health and sustainability. This will be followed by seven talks, by Italian and foreign speakers, who will explore topics such as Mediterranean natural resources and their therapeutic properties, the role of veterinary medicine and the One Health approach, the study of microbiomes, milk quality, plant products and food-related social transformations.

In the afternoon, a workshop "From Soil and Water to Health," sponsored by C.I.R.AM. in collaboration with afferent departments and foreign MUNA partners in the Department of Biology, will be held at the Department ofEngineering (Maximilla Hall). Chair sessions will be Domenico Pirozzi, water remediation expert and advisor to the C.I.R.AM Council, and by Fagr Kh. Abdel-Gawad, MUNA coordinator in Egypt and specialist in water remediation and food security. Eight papers will explore the role of soil and water for healthy nutrition through an interdisciplinary approach that will range from the fate of drugs in environmental matrices to geophysics applied to food production, from soil quality to the microbiome, from climate challenges for food security to the effects of the Mediterranean diet on metabolic health.

The day will conclude with speeches by academic and institutional authorities, underscoring how international scientific cooperation and multidisciplinary research can offer concrete tools to address the challenges of sustainability and global health. In addition, a position paper, with recommendations and guidelines that have emerged, will be prepared by the C.I.R.AM. organizers, which will also be useful for the SULIEIA and MUNA projects.