Science

PhD students are enrolled in Q-PorkChains and will soon be invited to join a new virtual community

 

By Detert Brinkmann and Mette Christensen

 

Currently 16 PhD students are involved in research projects within QPorkChains focussing on activities mainly within module I (consumer, citizens and market), III (product development), IV (chain management), V (Molecular Quality Control) and VI (knowledge synthesis). One PhD student is involved in Module A and carries out pilot and demonstration chains.

 

At the Science Section the initial PhD studies are briefly presented, as well as contact details.

 

University of Bonn and Wageningen University are cooperating in Module IV and regularly arrange meetings with PhD students involved in module IV, accompanied by the module coordinator, work package leaders and post-docs, to coordinate the crossborder interdisciplinary collaboration.

 

- The main objectives of these meetings are to introduce researchers, build-ups of work groups and organisation of communication, comparison of working status and planning of further cooperation. By having these meetings, work efficiency will hopefully gain an optimum of forward-looking research results Detert Brinkmann (University of Bonn) says.