partnerships

Ongoing project: ASIFOOD
Universities as key partners for the new challenges regarding food safety & quality in ASEAN.
Countries concerned: 
South East Asian Nations (esp. Vietnam, Thailand and Cambodia)
Budget
The total budget is 996 k€ of which 283 k€ for Agreenium and Montpellier SupAgro  
Donor
European Commission (Erasmus + program: Higher Education - International Capacity Building)
Duration
3 years (Oct. 2015- Oct. 2018)
Main partners
Montpellier SupAgro (Coordinator), Kasetsart University (Thailand), Asian Institute of Technology (Thailand), Hanoi University of Science and Technology (HUST, Vietnam), Prince of Songkla University (Thailand), Institute of Technology of Cambodia, Royal University of Agriculture (Cambodia), Agreenium.
Agreenium members involved
  • Montpellier SupAgro
  • AgroSup Dijon 
  • Cirad
News about the project
Aim
To support the universities in Vietnam, Thailand and Cambodia in building their capacities and their link with professionals in food safety and food quality, in the context of ASEAN integration, which starts in 2015.

Expected achievements
  • enhancing the relationships between universities and professional stakeholders (food producers and sellers; food safety authorities; consumers...); 
  • bringing the "Training Engineering" (TE) methodology within partner's universities, to ensure that new and updated curricula fit the needs of the economic sector and other stakeholders;
  • raising teachers’ capacity, with the introduction of new didactic methods and the creation, implementation and dissemination of 3 multidisciplinary training modules in food safety and food quality "from-farm-to-plate" (5 to 15 ECTS each) in regional masters programs;
  • strengthening the relationships between ASEAN universities and between EU and ASEAN universities in the areas of food safety and food quality. 

Agreenium’s role
  • offer a pool of the best French competences in food quality and food safety; 
  • bring the expertise of research units which have been conducting several projects in South East Asia with researchers being located notably in AIT-Thailand and in HUST-Vietnam; 
  • operate training modules in food quality and safety and short training courses for professionals; 
  • elaborate manuals for food safety; bring the expertise of Agreenium’s members’ HEI in food science & technology, food safety and microbiology; 
  • contribute to course and instructional design, train the trainers/consulting/support to the creation of training modules, train colleagues on research techniques or equipment. 
Project manager for Agreenium
Yves Waché (AgroSup Dijon)