Postdoctoral assignment - Circular and Digital Innovation for Resilient and Competitive Local agri-food EcosystemS – CIRCLES

Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research; Italia; On-site; EUR 42,000 - 54,000; Full time

Job summary

Università Ca' Foscari Venezia is seeking to advance a project on simplified measurement and digital management of the environmental footprint in the wine supply chain. The role includes evaluating existing certification systems, integrating company data, and proposing streamlined assessment methods.

The work involves analyzing digital solutions for data collection at the supply chain level and defining digital architectures to support strategic upgrades aimed at reducing environmental impact

Responsibilities

• 1) The project entails critical evaluation of current quality and environmental sustainability certification systems for products.
• 2) Integration of data collected by companies during previous production process monitoring activities.
• 3) Proposal of simplified methodologies for assessing the environmental footprint of wine sector products.
• 4) Analysis of digital solutions available for collecting environmental footprint data at the supply chain level.
• 5) Definition of digital logics and architectures to support upgrading of supply chains to reduce environmental footprint.

Job description

Organisation/Company Università Ca' Foscari Venezia Research Field Economics » Management studies Researcher Profile Recognised Researcher (R2) Leading Researcher (R4) First Stage Researcher (R1) Established Researcher (R3) Application Deadline 20 Nov 2026 - 13:00 (UTC) Country Italy Type of Contract To be defined Job Status Not Applicable Is the job funded through the EU Research Framework Programme? Not funded by a EU programme Is the Job related to staff position within a Research Infrastructure? No

Offer Description

Simplified measurement and digital management of the environmental footprint in the wine supply chain.

The project entails:

• 1) the critical evaluation of current quality and environmental sustainability certification systems for products;


• 2) the integration of data collected by companies during previous production process monitoring activities;


• 3) the proposal of simplified methodologies for assessing the environmental footprint of wine sector products;


• 4) the analysis of digital solutions available for collecting environmental footprint data at the supply chain level;


• 5) the definition of digital logics and architectures to support the strategic and managerial upgrading of supply chains, with a view to reducing their environmental footprint.

• International

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