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MSFS2025 is an international-short-term school aimed to introduce modeling “from fundamental phenomena up to complex multiphysics environment and multiscale” to fellows involved in research, both in academy and industries, in the field of food and bio processes. Particularly, the school is mainly addressed to fellows involved in research in food and bio-science, technology and engineering, who have limited experiences in modeling and/or fellows with intermediate knowledge....more

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Ashim Datta, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA

Ferruh Erdogdu, Ankara University, Turkey

Francesco Marra, University of Salerno, Fisciano, Italy

Fabrizio Sarghini, University of Naples “Federico II”, Portici, Italy

Pieter Verboven, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

Welcome to Falerna -Italy

The town of Falerna was born in the early seventeenth century, and was populated by new people following the ruinous earthquake of 1638, which struck the Lametino and the Savoto Valley.

In the fiefdoms of the d'Aquino family, the villages found themselves at the center of the disaster and the damage was enormous.

The earthquake struck in a delicate phase for the Aquinas family, when the feudal lords tried to stop the exodus of the population to have more workforce to be used in the exploitation of the countryside, in order to acquire further wealth and consolidate prestige within the Calabrian nobility.

The reconstruction work was, therefore, indispensable, and under the rule of Giovanna Battista d'Aquino, fourth princess of Castiglione, the efforts to combat the trend of depopulation brought the new town of Falerna to the center of attention. The village developed at the foot of Mount Mancuso, in an even higher position than Castiglione, on an area where the feudal lords gathered shepherds and farmers from neighboring villages, thus promoting the transformation of the "haystacks" into masonry houses. The center grew rapidly and gathered all the peasants scattered in the plains of Stia, Carito, Canne and Polpicello.

The families of Falerna went from 32 in 1648 to 57 in 1669, up to a thousand inhabitants at the end of the seventeenth century, including those of Castiglione.

The d'Aquino family, who moved first to Nicastro and then to Naples, left the management of the fiefdoms to various procurators, and during the eighteenth century Castiglione declined, ceding the leadership of the territory to Falerna, which in 1783 came to have about 800 inhabitants, against the 366 of Castiglione. In 1799 the last feudal lord, Vincenzina D'Aquino Pico, died. In 1806 the French occupiers abolished feudalism, through the so-called Subversive Laws of feudalism. In 1807, with the law of 19 January, Falerna was recognized as a place, i.e. University, in the government of Martirano. With the subsequent reorganization, ordered by decree of May 4, 1811, Falerna was reunited with Castiglione Marittimo, giving life to the municipality: Castiglione kept the capital for the first five years, by virtue of its past. In 1816, with the royal decree of 1 May, no. 360, issued by Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies and with the consequent administrative reorganization, Falerna was elevated to the capital, due to the reduced demographic weight of Castiglione.

The panorama both in summer and winter offers beautiful sunsets, the griffo river and a little further up Mount Mancuso where you can spend a day immersed in nature. In the hamlet of Castiglione Marittimo there are important historical finds of ancient civilizations that populated the village. In Falerna marina there is a beautiful promenade full of very interesting kiosks that runs along a wonderful beach and crystal clear water.

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