(2016 July 14th) On July 13th, in Trento, the first Forum of the Trentino associations of Development Cooperation, summoned to analyze the existing national and European scenarios of international cooperation was held and facing the big innovations occurring in recent years. This event is part of a process started more than two years ago, when the province has moved to strengthen its position in the new dynamics that characterize the sector. Among the attendees Laura Frigenti, General Director of the newly formed Italian Agency for Development Cooperation, who explained the guiding principles of the new law. “With the reform – she said – we have no more exchanges of individual resources, from Nation to Nation, but a transfer involving a system of experiences. The public sector is no longer the main actor – she added – but rather a facilitator, capable of creating a convergence between all actors, public and private, involved in the world of cooperation. ” During her day in Trento, Frigenti visited the facilities of the Mach Foundation in San Michele all’Adige. While maintaining a strong territorial mission in its research, training and advice activity, the Foundation has always been marked by a great international vocation, also declined in several cooperation projects, in order to ensure to as much people as possibile a productive but sustainable agriculture, promoting the “One Health” approach. After talking with researchers that in their career path have engaged in cooperation projects around the world, from East Timor to Mozambique, passing through the Ivory Coast and Palestine, not to mention Bosnia and South America, the General Director Frigenti, met President Andrea Segre and Director Sergio Menapace. (Red)
