CLIMA Lunch Seminar with Serena Fabbozzo

The application of the EU principle "do no significant harm" (DNSH) in research and innovation financed by European funds. Looking for identification of compliance tools and adoption of administrative best practices in universities, what are the trends in Italy and in Denmark?

Abstract

The DNSH principle conditions the disbursement of a huge amount of community funds that was approved to deal with the consequences, economic and otherwise, resulting from the outbreak of the Covid 19 pandemic. From this massive economic and financial measure could come a breakthrough toward achieving factual sustainability. The challenge before us is immense but critical to slowing the ongoing climate change. What can be decisive in deciding whether a funded project is sustainable or not? Apart from the Guidelines that each state has, are there any other tools that can concretely steer toward sustainability?

About the speaker

Serena Fabbozzo's been a civil and administrative lawyer for more than 20 years in a law firm based in Tuscany; she is also a PhD Fellow at the University of Turin, about to finish her third year and her academic research in recent years has focused on "The application of the EU principle "do no significant harm" (DNSH) in research and innovation financed by European funds: identification of compliance tools and adoption of administrative best practices in universities". The most recent articles she has published deal specifically with the conflict between the environment and economic development, with an in-depth discussion of possible remedies for this conflict. In 2024 she submitted a project to the Unita PhD Talent Challenge (the European Union's Horizon research and innovation programme) based on the example of the pioneering Danish town of Kalundborg and its "industrial symbiosis".

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