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Thorkild Amdi Christensen
Denmark: AQFood, a new Nordic master’s degree programme within aquatic food offers the possibility of a double diploma of Ministers and students spend the first year at one university and the last year at another. Scholarships are not available. However, some of the partner universities have a limited number of tuition fee waivers to award foreign students. More information is available on the individual university homepages. Students need a bachelor’s degree to qualify for the programme that will start in the autumn 2012. For more information please visit the homepage: www.aqfood.org or contact: Senior researcher Caroline P. Baron, e-mail: carba@food.dtu.dk, tel +45 31 15 91 61 Launching reception at the DTU for the new master’s programme - AQ food. From left: Michael Engelbrecht Nielsen – DTU Food; Guðrún Ólafsdóttir, University of Iceland; Andreas Petterson, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences; Turid Rustad, Norwegian University of Science and Technology; Caroline P. Baron DTU Food, Paw Dalgaard DTU Food.
AQFood is a new two-year master’s degree within production, safety and quality of aquatic food (aquaculture and capture). All classes are taught in English. The education brings expertise from five Nordic universities together to form one high level technical education for production, processing and distribution of aquatic animals. The degree is designed for students interested in a career within aquatic food production.
Whether they want to specialise in aquaculture production, industrial food production or resource management this programme is something for them. The focus in the programme is on the whole chain approach and students will look into important aspects of economics, production management, and environmental challenges. The degree is strongly backed by industry so that students gain practical exposure alongside the theoretical
grounding. AQFood is also a unique opportunity for students to obtain a double diploma from two reputed universities at the same time. The five universities contributing to the education are: DTU, University of Iceland, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norwegian University of Life Sciences and Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences. The university cooperation is supported by the Nordic Council
Spain: Vending machine that sells fresh fish The brothers Ruben and Marga Rios have run a fish retail outlet for 11 years in Mungia near Bilbao in Spain, reports springwise.com. Late last year they installed a vending machine that dispenses fresh fish 24 hours a day allowing them www.eurofishmagazine.com
to serve customers even when the shop is closed. The fish and seafood is bought daily from the Mercabilbao wholesale market, cleaned and packaged in individual trays labelled with the expiration date. The machine dispenses cooked food as well,
and prices for all products are the same as they are in the store. The machine has proved popular among customers and the brothers are apparently considering adding fish bait to the range to tempt early morning fishers. Eurofish Magazine 1/ 2012
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