Agriconsulting Europe S.A.(AESA), is a leading international development consulting firm that has been in operation since 1994. As a multidisciplinary company, AESA has built an international reputation for efficiently implementing high impact projects and programmes in rural development and agriculture. It excels in the provision of high quality management and advisory services for international cooperation projects, Policy development and delivering Technical assistance for sustainable rural, social, and economic development. AESA mainly supports projects in the areas of economic and social reform, wealth generation, poverty reduction, universal primary education, gender equality, productivity and competitiveness, agriculture and forestry sectors, improvement of quality of life in rural areas, diversification of rural economies, creating an enabling environment for rural communities, biodiversity conservation, and in environmental sustainability and management. Our teams of experts help in a wide range of development interventions in these sectors thus playing a significant role in enhancing the economic development activities required to meet the aspirations of the rural communities’ worldwide

The "Bruno Ubertini" Experimental Zooprophylactic Institute of Lombardy and Emilia Romagna is a public health institution with management, technical and administrative autonomy operating within the wider National Health Service. The Experimental Zooprophylactic Institutes (II.ZZ.SS.) with their 10 central offices and 90 peripheral diagnostic sections , represent an important operational tool available to the National Health Service to ensure epidemiological surveillance, experimental research, training of personnel, laboratory support and diagnostics as part of official food control. From Valle d'Aosta to Sicily they constitute an integrated health facility, unique in Europe and in the world, capable of ensuring a network of services to verify the healthiness of food and the environment, for the protection of human health. The function of connection and coordination of the activities of the Experimental Zooprophylactic Institutes is carried out by the General Directorate of Animal Health and Veterinary Medicines of the Ministry of Health , which defines, through the work of the National Scientific Commission , the guidelines and main issues.