Study Programmes for learners
Quantitative Tools for Sustainable Food and Energy in the food chain
Q-Safe
University of Santiago De Compostela, Spain
14 March – 25 March 2016
This postgraduate ERASMUS training programme brings together international experts from six different European countries and a European industry with expertise in predictive modelling, risk assessment and life cycle analysis. The programme will explore new advances in modelling practices, present the concepts and tools of analysis and deliver applied mathematical knowledge in the research field of Food and Biosciences.
The specific objectives of this module are:
- to develop each participants capacity to design and generate informative experimental data,
- to understand model structure development and selection to describe quantitatively chemical, microbiological and physical phenomena and develop capabilities for quantifying accurately the sources of stochasticity,
- to make participants familiar with optimisation software and model simulation in research, that can be exploited for developing decision-making and quantitative risk assessment tools.
- introduce participants to sustainability issues with the focus on environmental managements tools (e.g., LCA, carbon footprint) and energy optimisation.
Partner institutes are: UCD School of Biosystems Engineering, Ireland; University of Malta, Malta; Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium; L'Ecole Nationale Vétérinaire, Agroalimentaire et de l'Alimentation Nantes-Atlantique, France; Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece; University of Birmingham, U.K.; Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Spain; Feiraco Sociedad Cooperativa Galega, Spain.
The programme will be of particular interest to Masters or Ph.D. students with an interest in mathematical modelling approaches in the Bioscience field.
The course is free of charge while travel and subsistence allowances are provided.
For more information contact: Dr Vasilis Valdramidis by 10 January 2016.
