Years of experience
in university training, research in collaboration with companies, communication and dissemination and search for research funds
Areas of expertise
such as wastes valorisation, optimized biocatalysts for industrial processes, lignocellulose hydrolysis, microbial fermentations
Countries
in Europe and in the other continents where collaborative research and training activities have been carried out
Industrial partners
with which cooperation activities have been carried out in the context of funded research projects and networking
Our services
Who we are
Vincenza Faraco, to friends Cinzia, and therefore to some known as Cinzia Faraco, founder of CIAK SI SCIENZA, at the Pitch Perfect and Boost the European Bioeconomy 2021 event, Brussels 28 September 2021
Environmental protection is not an economical cost but a gain
- CIAK SI SCIENZA is a non-for-profit organisation funded four years ago by Vincenza Faraco, university professor with twenty years of experience specialized in the development of new green processes and products for companies and in obtaining funding from the European Commission for industrial projects.
- In the list of the top 2% (about 100 thousand) scientists in the world, Professor Faraco acts as a breakthrough maker, able to identify the green innovations that can be more profitable for the companies and support them in gaining funding of European Commission to make innovation reality.
“My passion has been making for over twenty years
scientific knowledge useful for the development of a better society in which the environment is protected"
Vincenza Faraco
Our mission
Sensitize society
on the importance of respecting the environment and the solutions that can be implemented to safeguard the health of our planet and fight the climate emergency
Support businesses
in the creation of economic as well as environmental value through the (eco)sustainability and circularity of their organizational and production processes
Train and specialize
the new profiles that companies need to achieve the objectives of the ecological, circular and digital transition in accordance with the European Green Deal
"Since more than 20 years of industrial research , I act as a breakthrough maker, able to identify the green innovations more profitable for the companies and support them in gaining funding of European Commission to make innovation reality"
Vincenza Faraco
Some of our partners
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Who created CIAK SI SCIENZA
My name is Vincenza Faraco, even if friends call me Cinzia and therefore many know me as Cinzia Faraco
I have dedicated my professional life to research which then became a mission, which I have continuously fueled with new ambitious goals in other fields as well.
In fact, I have always felt within me a tension to overcome my limits, embracing the admonition of Saint Augustine "Overcome yourself and you will overcome the world".
Conferment of the "Ambassadors of the Sun Award" to Vincenza Faraco, Naples 26 April 2019
“Overcome yourself and you will overcome the world”
Saint Augustine
My vision
Vincenza Faraco interviewed on Tg3R, 23 December 2019
Building bridges between the world of research, industry and consumers
In fact, a fundamental aspect of my vision is to help reduce the gap between the world of research and industry because it allows us to create that indispensable bond for transforming research results into tangible results for progress and our lives. A fundamental aspect for this is communicating science to the community, as the main final recipient of these efforts.
For this reason, on 4 October 2018 I presented at the press conference CIAK SI SCIENZA, which I created as a green channel of the Federico II University, and I set up CIAK SI SCIENZA as a non-for-profit organisation on 13 February 2019.
My professional path
I am a chemist and PhD in biochemistry and molecular biology. Associate Professor of Fermentation Chemistry and Biotechnology at the University of Naples Federico II (Naples). On 31 March 2017 I obtained the National Scientific Qualification as Full Professor in Fermentation Chemistry and Biotechnology.
I was included in the list of the best scientists in the world -about 2%, equal to 100,000 researchers- of 2019 (DOI: 10.17632/btchxktzyw.2) and 2020 (DOI: 10.17632/btchxktzyw.3).
I am coordinator of the EXPERTS-BUSINESS NETWORK on "(Eco)sustainability and (Bio)Circular Economy" (acronym Ecircular), which involves more than 50 private companies and about 150 researchers and is in an expansion phase.
Engaged, for over 20 years, in research activities in the field of green chemistry, i.e. a chemistry that respects the environment, and industrial biotechnologies, which adopt environmentally friendly transformations carried out by organisms or their parts for industrial purposes for sustainable development
I am the coordinator of the Federico II University Task Force in Circular Bioeconomy, a team of experts who work synergistically in multidisciplinary and complementary fields to intensify research, development and training activities, increase access to European Union funds and increase technology transfer and consolidate the relationship with private companies in the areas of circular transition and the bioeconomy, strategic and crucial areas of the Green Deal (https://www.ricerca.unina.it/taskforces/bio-economia-circolare/).
Author of over 100 scientific articles published in international peer reviewed journals (Hindex 36)
Winner of very competitive grants for financing large highly multidisciplinary industrial research projects in which I was coordinator mainly in collaboration with private companies to develop new competitive and environmentally friendly products and processes of industrial interest.
I have established collaborations with many foreign companies, research centers and universities in order to broaden the horizons of my research globally.
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