Carlo Petrini, founder of the Slow Food movement, established the international university in 2004 to train students for employment in food and tourism industries, food-related government departments, or food-related journalism [REF].
UNISG enrolls 85 students every year in the first year of the BSc program and about 100 in all the Master's programs;[REF] since then more than 1,500 have taken courses at the university [REF].