Paolo Rosazza Prin is a PhD on aerospace engineering engineer with specialization on system design and energy system. He participate in several collaboration with NGOs and academic institution, teaching and consulting. He has been working closely with Engineers Without Borders and several NGOs in relation to projects of international cooperation in the energy , environmental and food safety, sanitation, agriculture and Permaculture. Paolo perform his research on Permaculture starting from a PDC at the Italian institute of Permaculture, recognized by the Permaculture Research Institute Australia, then getting experience on several Italian organic farms, then around Australia performing a permaculture intership on sustainable architecture and farming at the Permaculture Research Institute of Australia and Permaculture Institute TAGARI – Australia.
He is a founding director of EcontAct, an association made up of people who believe in the overall development of the quality of life through projects that take as a reference point the respect for the culture, the identity of each people, awareness raising, development education, the research and the application of the most appropriate techniques for better management of land resources. Paolo was a volunteer at Habiba in 2013 and has been instrumental in fundraising for, designing and building a PermacultureLearning Centre in cooperation with Alan Middleton and Clay is the Way Sinai. Alice and Paolo met at Habiba in January 2014 whilst building the first walls of the Learning Center and hatched the plan of offering this PDC course as a means of supporting the wonderful work of Habiba Community.
Paolo is nowadays involved in research and development on permanent systematic design methodologies. The test case is a Permaculture Demonstration Site design, including the Permaculture Learning Center.