Natural Sciences

The UN global 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development proposes 17 Development Goals (SDGs), including; zero hunger (SDG2), good health and well-being (SDG3), which is linked to Goal 13 on climate change and SDG 11 Sustainable Cities and Communities and 14 and 15, which concern life below water and life on land respectively, and the important Goal “Quality Education” (SDG4). From this simple, incomplete list, it emerges that the SDGs are interconnected and all fundamental to achieving sustainable development, each one broken down into specific Targets and related to the problems that we intend to improve by 2030 at a global level. These Objectives concern the biodiversity and geodiversity of our Planet in relation to the activities that man carries out and exert within the different environmental systems (natural ecosystems, agroecosystems, urban ecosystems), including therefore the socio-economic relations and productive activities integrated with the ecosystem processes that are the basis of human well-being. In this context, the Faculty of Sciences M.F.N. will develop some of the most recent and innovative research themes that contribute, in various fields of study, to the sustainable development of society.