Food & Health International Advanced Course 1st edition 22nd August - 2nd September, 2005 Paris, France organised by SOCRATES Intensive Programme partners

Introduction

Background
Over the last decade, increasing concerns about health risks related to food safety, nutrition and diets have had significant impacts on food-consumption patterns in Europe. The high demand for high quality food for the consumer involves not only nutritional aspects but also items dealing with food safety, sensorial properties of food, food availability, convenience, image and environmental aspects.
Therefore there is an urgent need for highly educated people who are able to collaborate in a multidisciplinary way on the subject of food production and nutrition in the field of public health. The link between food and health is a matter of continuing research especially the influence of the processing parameters in the whole food chain on the health of the consumer.
During MSc-degrees in food sciences and nutrition students have been trained in one specific field such as food technology, food processing, nutrition and public health nutrition, but they are lacking an overview of the link food-nutrition-health.
On the other hand there is an increasing tendency for students to continue their education on the doctorate level. During their PhD-study programme they concentrate on research, but more and more institutions are demanding that the PhD students attend specalised courses in order to be trained in a multidisciplinary way. This Intensive Programme constitutes an example of a module in teaching programmes for PhD-students.

Target group
PhD-students performing research in the field of food science and nutrition constitute primary target group, but PhD-students from veterinary sciences, medical doctors, pharmacists can also enrole. Course participants will benefit from the experiences introduced by a number of graduate schools within the IP partners especially due to the international dimension of these schools. The students will have the opportunity to present their research projects and to discuss the results with other students and staff. The selection of the PhD-students will be performed by their home university. Major selection criteria will be the research topic in relation to food and health and English proficiency.

Course contents

Course aim
During this advanced course PhD students will be confronted with a new interdisciplinary approach covering the multidisciplinary relation food-nutrition-health.

Course design
The curriculum consists of the following activities: courses taught by experts, seminars, project work by an international group of students, presentation of the project by poster, industrial visit, and multiple choice examination.
Due to the workload of the taught courses, the preparation and oral presentation of the group work, the poster presentation and the examination 5 ECTS are attributed to this course on condition that the students successfully complete the examination.

Course programme
Download the course programme here in pdf.

Organisation

Course coordinators

• Verhé, R. Ghent University (Belgium) chairman / coordinator
• Pršić, V. Wageningen University (The Netherlands) programme coordinator
• INA-PG team

Organisation committee

• Verhé R., Ghent University (Belgium)
• Pršić, V., Wageningen University (The Netherlands)
• Michalcova A., Slovak Agricultural University, Nitra (Slovak Republic)
• Nyman M., Lund University (Sweden)
• Rovira J., University of Burgos (Spain)
• Schleining G.,University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences, Vienna (Austria)
• Socaciu C., University of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine, Cluj-Napoca (Romania)

Other project partners

• The Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University, Danmark
• University of Murcia, Spain
• Polytechnical University of Valencia, Spain
• Institut National Agronomique Paris-Grignon, France
• University of Helsinki, Finland
• Harokopio University, Greece
• University of Parma, Italy
• Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania
• Warsaw Agricultural University, Poland
• Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal
• Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
• Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
• Oxford Brookes University, UK

General information

Date & duration
The course will be held from Monday, 22nd August through Friday, 2nd September, 2005.

Study load
The study load of this course is ECTS credits.

Language
The course will be taught in English.

Location & accommodation
The course will take place in Paris (France) at
Institut National Agronomique Paris-Grignon
16 rue Claude Bernard,
75005 Paris, France

The course secretariat (Sandra.Willaert@UGent.be) has reserved a limited number of rooms.
For more information on the travelling and lodging arrangements, as well as financial issues please contact Ms. Sandra Willaert at the course secretariat (Sandra.Willaert@UGent.be) or consult this PDF document.

Contact information
For more information on the course contents please contact:
Ms. Vesna Pršić (E-mail: Vesna.Prsic@wur.nl)
The Graduate School VLAG
P.O. Box 8129, 6700 EV Wageningen, The Netherlands
Phone: +31.317.485135 / Fax: +31.317.483342

Registration - Closed!

Please send the completed registration form to the course secretariat:
Ms. Sandra Willaert (Sandra.Willaert@UGent.be).
Phone: +32.9.264 59 54 / Fax: +32.9.264 62 43

Cancellations may be made until the 1st August, 2005.