UNISG is an international reference point for study, research, transmission, and innovation in deepening knowledge of the sphere of Gastronomic Sciences, with a particular conceptual focus on the relationships between food, ecology, and sustainability. The University of Gastronomic Sciences, founded in 2004 by the international non-profit association Slow Food in cooperation with the Italian regions of Piedmont and Emilia-Romagna, is a ministerially recognized, private non-profit institution. The university forms gastronomes, new professional figures with multi-disciplinary skills and knowledge in the fields of science, culture, politics, economics and ecology of food, working to apply them to production, distribution and sustainable consumption.