Sustainability and adherence to the UN SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals) are institutional objectives of the University of Milano-Bicocca, permeating all training programs offered by our institution, so that they are specifically reported in the syllabi of every teaching module. In addition, all students are offered micro-credentials modules dedicated to the theme of sustainability, understood in a cross-cutting sense. Environment, economics, health, chemistry, disruptive technologies, EU regulation, innovation, digital transformation, and ethics offering participants an overview of current and relevant issues.
Within this framework, specific objectives, both educational and research-oriented, are pursued in the field of Green Chemistry, with particular emphasis on aspects closely related to the 12 principles of Green Chemistry, in both the Bachelor’s and Master’s Degree programs in Biotechnology and Biology at the Department of Biotechnology and Biosciences.
In particular, the Master’s Degree program in Industrial Biotechnology offers the curriculum “Processes and Products” dedicated to the chemical and biological aspects of biotechnological processes and products of industrial interest, with particular attention to those processes aimed at the application of scientific and technological innovation. Specifically, the path will allow students to deepen key aspects of innovative biotechnologies such as the sustainability by design of products and processes, including biocatalysis, biorefineries, cell factories and fermentations, from a circular bioeconomy perspective, thus taking care to introduce students to the analysis of quantitative aspects of process performance evaluation as well as managerial aspects of industrial application.
In the Master’s Degree program in Biology, particular attention to the environment, toxicology, and human health is provided with an integrated One Health approach.
Several research projects, in which students from the Master’s Degree programs in Industrial Biotechnology and Biology are involved during their traineeship, are aimed at sustainability and focus on the development of secondary raw materials, the use of renewable sources, biotransformations, and production through biorefineries or fermentative techniques.

Chemistry Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Chemistry Master of Science (M.S.), Biotechnology Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Industrial Biotechnology Master of Science (M.S.), Biological Sciences Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Biology Master of Science (M.S.)

1) Bicocca Biotech @BtBs, 2) bicocca-biotechbtbs@googlegroups.com, 3) https://www.linkedin.com/company/bicocca-biotech-btbs/

Increasing the integration of green chemistry throughout the lectures and labs, Increasing seminars related to green chemistry, increase outreach activities, implementing green chemistry within teaching labs.

Most commonly used biocatalytic transformations in descending order
https://acsgcipr.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/ACS_GCI_2021_ACSGCIPR_Biocatalysis_Sheet_Final.pdf
The E factor 25 years on: the rise of green chemistry and sustainability Green Chem., 19 (2017), pp. 18-43
Green criteria for biocatalysis: https://reagents.acsgcipr.org/reagent-guides/biocatalysis/
Green Chemistry pocket guide https://www.acs.org/content/dam/acsorg/greenchemistry/redesign/principles/the-12-principles-of-green-chemistry-pocket-guide.pdf
The Evolving Landscape of Industrial Biocatalysis in Perspective from the ACS Green Chemistry Institute Pharmaceutical Roundtable https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acscatal.5c01646