THE TRAINING AND ROLE OF THE POMOLOGIST IN EUROPE’S FRUIT RESEARCH AND INDUSTRY

What is a pomologist? What is his or her educational background? Role in the professional world (one’s education and job are often very different)? And, of marked importance, what kind of training does the pomologist need? What is certain is that this training must meet the demands of a changing fruit industry in search of a strategy to carry it through the coming years.

Any pomologist who does not recognise this fact will find it hard indeed to play an active role in ongoing developments.
This is an obvious allusion to my own experience in Italy and Europe, where the upper schools and universities are rooted in educational models derived from a long-standing tradition.
Yet, with the coming political, and not merely economic, unification of Europe, the higher educational institutions of the EU countries must try to bring into line their teaching methods, programme length, degree qualifications, course streams and curricula.
While this unfortunately is still not the reality, even when the length of programs are the same (say four or five years), we are moving in the right direction.

Strategies for a Modern Pomology

S. Sansavini

https://doi.org/10.17660/ActaHortic.1995.400.4