Yari Vecchio

FORMATION

Phd in "Innovative technologies and sustainable use of Mediterranean fishery and biological resources (FishMed-PhD)". Tutor: Prof. Felice Adinolfi. (Start: 01/11/2019-16/06/2023)

Visiting period from 30/05/2022 to 19/09/2022: Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Chania: CIHEAM IAMC (Greece, Crete)

Master Degree (LM-77) in "Management" (110 cum laude and academic achievement award, best graduate of the academic year)

Disseration: "Review of fractional Brownian motorcycle in the light of multifractional and applications in finance" Relator: Prof. Vincenzo Costa and Prof. Sergio Bianchi (22/07/2016)

Course on SPSS SOFTWARE

• Intro Course 1-2
• TSC Course - Statistical Tests and Sampling Plans
• REG - Regression Course
• Course CLUS - Clustering
  
  SUMMER SCHOOL

  University of Utrecht, NL

• Mplus: How to get started? (0.5 ECTS)
• Applied Bayesian Statistics (1.5 ECTS)
• Introduction to Multilevel Analysis (1.5 ECTS)
• Advanced Multilevel Analysis (1.0 ECTS)
• Survey Research: Design, Implementation and Data Processing (1.5 ECTS)
• Survey Research: Statistical Analysis and Estimation (1.5 ECTS)
• Advanced Survey Research (2.0 ECTS)
• 3rd ‘GIOVANNI ANANIA’ SUMMER SCHOOL ON EVIDENCE-BASED POLICY MAKING "Machine Learning techniques in agricultural, food and environmental policy analysis"

  POSTGRADUATED COURSES

• Bayesian Multivariate Models and Forecasting in Economics and Finance 2020, organized by SIDE (Italian Econometric Association)

OTHER COURSES

• HarvardX: PH125.4x: Data Science: Inference and Modeling
• HarvardX: PH125.4x: Data Science: Probability
• HarvardX: PH125.4x: Data Science: R Basics
• HarvardX: PH125.4x: Data Science: Visualization

PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS

Trainee accountant: Trainee accountant at the accountant Giuseppe Tedesco. Start 15/01/2017 end 15/07/2018.

Obtained authorisation to practise as a certified Accountant on 16/09/2020.

ACCADEMIC ACTIVITIES

ALMA MATER STUDIORUM UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA

• Research grant at DIMEVET (Department of Veterinary Medical Sciences - University of Bologna) entitled "Integrating Innovative Approaches for Competitive and Sustainable Performance across the Mediterranean Aquaculture Value Chain: Analysis of consumer perception of fish products". The research grant was funded by the Horizon 2020 programme within the "PerformFish" project. Research Tutor: Prof. Felice Adinolfi (started on 01/03/2019, expired on 29/02/2020, interrupted on 31/10/2019).
• Research grant at DIMEVET (Department of Veterinary Medical Sciences - University of Bologna) entitled "Risk management in the primary sector: risk profile analysis and willingness to pay for income stabilisation instruments". The research grant was financed by the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Forestry (MIPAAF) within the framework of the project: "Implementation of a mutual fund for the fishing and aquaculture sector". Research Tutor: Prof. Felice Adinolfi (started on 01/08/2017, ended on 31/10/2018)

  UNIVERSITY OF CASSINO

• Collaboration contract with the Department of Economics and Law of the University of Cassino and Lazio Meridionale for research commissioned by Mipaaf entitled "Ex-ante evaluation of the financial instruments of the National Fisheries Plan". Title of the call: "Analysis of credit market failures in the fisheries sector". Research coordinator: Prof. Marcello De Rosa.
• Collaborator in the research carried out by the Department of Economics and Law of the University of Cassino and Southern Lazio, financed by the Lazio Region, on: "Preparatory study for the definition of the implementation modalities for the constitution, start-up and operation of Operational Groups (GO) as defined by the EU legislation on PEI (European Innovation Partnership)". Research coordinator: Prof. Marcello De Rosa.
• Collaboration contract with the Department of Economics and Law of the University of Cassino and Southern Lazio for research commissioned by Arsial. Subject of the contract: "Administration of questionnaires for the collection of data on the informal economy in the rural area of the Lepini Mountains". Research coordinator: Prof. Carlo Russo.
• Collaboration contract with the Department of Economics and Law of the University of Cassino and Lazio Meridionale for research commissioned by Arsial. Subject of the contract: "Administration of questionnaires for the collection of data on the informal economy in the rural territory of the Val di Comino". Research coordinator: Prof. Carlo Russo.

  COLLABORATION WITH SCIENTIFIC JOURNALS

• Member of the editorial Board of the “Italian Journal of Food Safety” (https://www.pagepressjournals.org/index.php/ijfs/board)
• Guest Editor for the special issue “Agriculture Policy and Tools for Global Dairy Sector in the Future” in Agriculture (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/agriculture/special_issues/YQA05W0099)
• Guest Editor for the special issue “Rural Policy, Governance and Sustainable Rural Development “ in Sustainability (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/sustainability/special_issues/Rural_Policy_Governance)
• Guest Editor for the special issue “The future food challenge: from environmental sustainability to innovation with an eye on tradition“ in AIMS Agriculture and Food (https://www.aimspress.com/aimsagri/article/6172/special-articles)

  CONTRIBUTION TO THE ORGANISATION OF INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCES

• Organizers of the Special Tracks “Innovation Systems to Support Sustainable and Resilient Agrifood Supply Chains” at the 17th edition of IFKAD 2022.

  PROJECTS

• Responsibility of TASK 1.1 “II Contesto E La Pianificazione Territoriale” of the project entiteled “Rigenerazione sostenibile dell'agricoltura nei territori colpiti da Xilella fastidiosa", (CUP) - J89J21013750001 (Total value of the project 5.000.000 €, total value of the task 250.000 €)
• Member of the task 5.2 of Performfish (Consumer driven Production: Integrating Innovative Approaches for Competitive and Sustainable Performance across the Mediterranean Aquaculture Value Chain), Horizon2020, CALL: H2020-SFS-2016-2017 - Sustainable Food Security – Resilient and resource- efficient value chains. From 01-12-2017 to 31-01-2023
• Member of the project MED-LINKS (Data-Enabled Business Models and Market Linkages Enhancing Value Creation and Distribution in Mediterrenean Fruit and Vegetale Supply Chains), PRIMA (Partnership for Research and Innovation in the Mediterranean Area), Call 2020: Section 2- Multitopic, 3. Agrofood chain, 2.3.1 New optimized models of agri-food supply chain systems offering fair price for consumers and reasonable profit share for producers (RIA) from 01-06-2021-today
• Member of the Task C, sub Task C2 (Business Plan) and C3 (Socio-economic report) of the project Life MUssel Sustainable production (re)cyCLES, LIFE (LIFE20 ENV/IT/000570). from 01-10-2022 - today

  TEACHING EXPERIENCE

• Lecturer of the module “Design, Implementation and Data processing” of the course “Workshop in Animal Metabolism and Management” (16 hours, in English)
• Tutor of the Master Degree in Food Animal Metabolism and Management in the Circular Economy (FAMCE), 2021-2022; 2022-2023.
• Supplementary teaching for the course in Statistics, CAP and Agricultural Economics and Circular Economy in Agri-Food Systems (from 2017-today)

  NON ACCADEMIC ACTIVITIES

• 3 hours lessons for Federcarni Accademy
• Collaboration with INIPA for the production of a report entitled "The economic and financial cycle of the agricultural company" in the Cattolica Assicurazioni Agri-food and lectures project (2022)
• Collaboration with Nomisma Spa for the production of reports and slides on thematic issues (2022)
• Collaboration with Cluster Srl for the the production of reports on the state of the agricultural sectors in the Basilicata (2022)
• Collaboration with Agriconsulting for the production of reports within the project "Support to the 2023-2027 programming of the Apulia Region, elaboration of policy briefs as a basis for the implementation of intervention policies". (2021-2022)
• Collaboration with Agriconsulting for the production of reports within the project "Technical assistance for the implementation of the RDP Sardinia 2014-2020" and production of Policy Brief for RDP 2023-2027. (2021-2022)
• Collaboration with the "Centro Studi Divulga" (https://www.divulgastudi.it) for content creation (2021-2023)
• Collaboration with INIPA for the production of a report entitled "The economic and financial cycle of the agricultural company" in the Monte dei Paschi di Siena (MPS) Agri-food and lectures project (2021)
• Collaboration contract for content insertion on the website paolo.decastro.eu and indexing of the MEP Paolo De Castro's website (2020-2021)
• Collaboration with CIHEAM Bari as statistician for the cooperation programme "Road Map for the Assessment of the data System in Malta "DATAMANTECH", funded by the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Animal Rights of Malta. (from 02/12/2019 to 30/11/2020)
• Collaboration within the programme Contract AKISInforma GA 101000398 of 26/11/2020 Subject: elaboration of the report "Guidelines for innovation in the agricultural and agri-food sector".
• Collaboration within the AKISInforma programme GA 101000398 of 26/11/2020 Subject: Publication on the New Green Deal.
• Collaboration within the ColdirettInform@ - AGRI programme 2019/0186 of 15/07/2019. Subject: Preparation of the content of information material on the Common Agricultural Policy, in particular summary reports explaining how the CAP has affected the development of rural areas in the regions and the opportunities it still offers for improving living conditions in these areas, also in the light of the new provisions of the new EU policy
• Collaboration contract for the drafting of monthly analytics and social network data processing reports and planning of new communication strategies for Cattolica Assicurazioni's AGR Observatory (http://www.osservatorioagr.eu) (2016-2017)
• Collaboration on the AGR project - Agrifood Observatory (Cattolica Assicurazioni) - in-depth analysis of agricultural commodity prices (2016-2017)
• Responsibility, preparation of TARSU tax assessments, evasion controls and TARSU registration. Use of various software to obtain cadastral data. (2014-2015)

ASSOCIATION

• Member of EAAE (European Association of Agricultural Economists) 2019-2021
• Member of SIDE (Italian Association of Econometrics) 2020
• Member of SIDEA (Italian Society of Agricultural Economics), 2020-today
• Associate Fellow of EMBRI (EUROMED Research Business Institute) 2023
• Member of the Agribusiness group EuroMed Research Business Institute (https://emrbi.org/agribusiness-group/)