M.E.D LAB
Safeguarding heritage and facilitating innovation.
LIVING LAB IN THE HEART OF THE MEDITERRANEAN
Traditional knowledge contains an invaluable heritage of understanding and interpreting the environment for sustainable management, which has survived millennia of development and has been strengthened thanks to the mixing of cultures that have traveled the roads and sailed in the waters of the Mare Nostrum.
The Mediterranean Diet Ecosystem Development Laboratory was created to safeguard this heritage and bring innovations that will allow this knowledge set to thrive in the future, so as to constitute the starting point for the sustainable development of the Mediterranean.
Guided by the integral ecological approach, the mission is to generate prosperity by strengthening a new business culture based on cooperation and regeneration.
The Campus houses an incubator, hackathon and acceleration programs organized along with the Future Food Institute’s global partner network.
areas of interest
The Mediterranean Lab was born as a spinoff of the Food Alchemist Lab, a research and development laboratory that supports the industry in the research, creation and prototyping of healthy and sustainable products, acting as a capillary arm for research and development in the Mediterranean.
In this way, thanks to the collaborations between the various laboratories that will be born in the ecosystem of the Campus Paideia of Pollica, it will be a real hub for research, innovation and the creation of a community around Traditional Ecological Knowledge long forgotten, to promote the consumption and sustainable production of food in the Mediterranean area, planting its roots in an ancestral conception of the environment.
The laboratory focuses on research and experimentation of the Traditional Ecological Knowledge of the Mediterranean area, to regenerate ancestral traditions that contain knowledge about the production and processing of a healthy and sustainable food, to make them accessible to the general public through the design of new/old products and the innovation of the production process. It will also be studied how, in order to develop micronutrient-dense products, it is necessary to link the transformation process with that of production.
Research areas:
- anthropological research
- nutritional value, longevity, microbiome
- product development
