AsiFood

Project Overview



Project Title

Universities as key partners for the new challenges regarding food safety & quality in ASEAN

Acronym

AsiFood

Specific Activity

Strengthening of relations between HEIs and the wider economic and social environment

Contact (Project Coordinator)

Montpellier SupAgro
Institut national d’études supérieures agronomiques de Montpellier
2, place Pierre Viala
34060 MONTPELLIER Cedex 2
contact@supagro.fr

Contact (PSU Partner)

Faculty of Natural Resources
Prince of Songkla University
Tel. 66 (0) 7455-8802 (ภายใน 6018-20)
Fax : 66 (0) 7455-8803
E-mail : natural-res@group.psu.ac.th

List of Partners (Project Coordinator italicized)


UniversityCountryCity
INSTITUT NATIONAL D’ETUDES SUPERIEURES AGRONOMIQUES DE MONTPELLIERFranceMontpellier
ASIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGYThailandPathum Thani
HOC VIEN NONG NGHIEP VIET NAMVietnamHanoi
INSTITUT AGRONOMIQUE VETERINAIRE ETFORESTIER DE FRANCEFranceParis
INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY OF CAMBODIACambodiaPhnom Penh
KASETSART UNIVERSITYThailandBangkok
PRINCE OF SONGKLA UNIVERSITYThailandHat Yai
ROYAL UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURECambodiaPhnom Penh
TRUONG DAI HOC BACH KHOA HANOI - HANOI UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY HUSTVietnamHanoi
TRUONG DAI HOC NONG LAM - THANH PHO HO CHI MINHVietnamHo Chi Minh City
UNIVERSITA DI PISAItalyPisa
UNIVERSITAET FUER BODENKULTUR WIENAustriaVienna
UNIVERSITE DE LIEGEBelgiumLiege



Project Number

561630-EPP-1-2015-1-FR-EPPKA2-CBHE-JP

Grant Awarded (Euros)

995,759.00

Year

2015

Project Summary


Food safety issues have reached a dramatic level in most Asian Countries. in its "integration program" ASEAN has put food security as one of its 12 priorities. It is abundantly documented that most of these problems are due to both qualitative and quantitative limitations in food safety management, mainly due to inadequate skills of workers, who often do not operate in compliance with the good practices for food safety and quality, and to a poor official control system. This lack at the level of human resources is strongly related to the lacks in the higher education system, the improvement of which is object of our proposal by:

1. increasing the capacity of Asian partner’university’s staff in the area of food safety and quality, by sharing experiences and organising training courses.
2. training them in "training engineering" (TE) methodology, encompassing 2 wide surveys, first on the relationships between the education system and professionals (public & private) and second on their skill’s needs;
3. developing 3 training modules in food safety & quality, adapted to the professional needs, to be included into master programs, with credit transfer between partners. This has also to be seen as a "practical exercise" of TE for the project team.

Increasing the teacher’s capacities (a) and helping them building adapted training modules (b and c) will consequently make the graduates more proficient when starting their professional lives.

1. enhancing the links between partner universities and professionals, in order to build a sustainable relationships between these 2 "worlds", essential requisite to better training and research. It is also planned to involved university’s top management, on necessary changes towards professionalization and feasible adaptation in their management strategy
2. Finally, the project’s results will be disseminated in the ASEAN countries, notably through short technical training modules and E-Learning modules for teachers & professionals.