Teaching activity 1 - Malta

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Teaching activity 1 - Malta

Teaching activity: between 23 March and 5 April 2015, Malta

This is an Intensive study programme in the following areas:
  • Predictive Modelling
  • Quantitative Risk Assessment
  • and Lifecycle analysis in Food Science and Bioscience.
Erasmus grants  
Activity: Intensive Study Programmes for learners: Intensive course in Predictive Modelling, Quantitative Risk Assessment and Life Cycle Analysis in Food Science and Bioscience
Number of Participants: 4
Travel Grant: Ireland, UK - €360.00; Spain, Greece, France, Belgium - €275.00
Number of days: 12
Subsistence allowance: €660.00 in total, equivalent to €55.00 per day
Please contact your respective partner at the earliest opportunity so as to attend the course that will take place in Malta.

Participants

University of Malta

  • Davide Sardella
  • Arianne Muscat
  • Kenneth Mallia
  • Dr Vasilis Valdramidis (lecturer)

KU Leuven

  • Prof. Jan Van Impe (lecturer) 
  • Simen Akkermans (teaching assistant)
  • Philippe Nimmegeers
  • Ioannis Matsoukas

University College Dublin

  • Eithne O'Flaherty
  • Kevin Hunt
  • Yuanyuan Pu 
  • Dr Enda Cummins (lecturer)

Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

  • Kyriakos Kaderidis 
  • Prof. Kostas Koutsoumanis (lecturer)
  • Myrsini Kakagianni 
  • Dr Maria Gougouli (lecturer)

Universidade de Santiago de Compostela

  • Sara Rodríguez
  • Elena Moretón 
  • Xela García
  • Laura Roibás 
  • Prof. Almudena Hospido (lecturer)

University of Birmingham

  • Siti Hajar Binti Ariffin
  • Tom Moxon
  • Putu Virgina Devanthi
  • Dr Estefania Lopez-Quiroga (lecturer) 

Ecole Nationale Vétérinaire, Agroalimentaire et de l'alimentation Nantes Atlantique

  • Dr Jeanne-Marie Membré (lecturer)
  • Géraldine Boué
  • Rémi Garip 

 Feiraco Sociedad Cooperative Galegae

  • Ismael Martínez Lede

Programme

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Programme Overview

Monday 23 March
Welcome
Introduction
Lecture:  European Food Safety Authority: Capacity Building in Food Safety Risk Assessment (Mr Stylianos Koulouris).
External speaker from industry
Student preparation activity (All) (cont.)
Lecture: Modelling in Bioscience and Food (Prof. J. Van Impe & Dr. V. Valdramidis)

Tuesday 24 March
Lecture: Modelling in Bioscience and Food (Prof. J. Van Impe & Dr. V. Valdramidis)
Computer lab work: Modelling in Bioscience and Food (Prof. J. Van Impe & Dr. V. Valdramidis)

Wednesday 25 March
Lecture: Modelling in Bioscience and Food (Prof. J. Van Impe & Dr. V. Valdramidis)
Computer lab work: Modelling in Bioscience and Food (Prof. J. Van Impe & Dr. V. Valdramidis)

Thursday 26 March
Computer lab work: Risk Assessment (Dr. E. Cummins)
Introduction to @Risk (Dr. E. Cummins)
Discussion time and preparation of final project

Friday 27 March
Problem solving exercises  (Dr. E. Cummins)
Computer Lab session: Quantitative Microbial Risk Assessment during Food Processing (Dr. J.-M. Membré)
Computer Lab Session: Probabilistic modeling of heat treatment processes (Dr. J.-M. Membré)

Saturday 28 March
Free time

Saturday 29 March
Free time

Monday 30 March
Computer lab work: Quantitative Microbial Risk Assessment during Food Processing (Dr. J.-M. Membré)
Computer lab work: Quantitative Microbial Risk Assessment during Food Storage (Prof. K. Koutsoumanis & M. Gougouli)

Tuesday 31 March
Lecture: Quantitative Microbial Risk Assessment during Food Storage (Prof. K. Koutsoumanis & Dr. M. Gougouli)
Computer lab work: Quantitative Microbial Risk Assessment during Food Storage (Prof. K. Koutsoumanis & Dr. M. Gougouli) 
Lecture: Integrating process modelling approaches in Microbial Modelling (Dr. S. Bakalis & Dr. Estephania Lopez-Quiroga)

Wednesday 1 April
Lecture: Life Cycle Analysis (Ass. Prof. A. Hospido)
Lecture: Life Cycle Analysis (Mr. Ismael Martínez Lede, Prof. A. Hospido) 
Discussion time and work of final project

Thursday 2 April
Computer lab work: Process modeling and Life Cycle Assessment. (Dr S. Bakalis & Dr Estephania Lopez-Quiroga)
Computer lab work: Process modeling and Life Cycle Assessment. (Prof. A. Hospido)

Friday 3 April
Students Project presentation and final assessment
Final conclusions 

Cultural excursions 

The following cultural excursions are to be held for students and lecturers attending this seminar:

Monday 23 March, 2015 - Mdina, Malta's ancient capitol
17:30 - Transport to Mdina, Malta's medieval capital
18:00 - 19:30 - Guided walking tour of Mdina
19:30 - 21:30 - Dinner at Trattoria 1530 AD
 
Saturday 28 March, 2015 - Valletta and Birgu
16:30 - 18:00 - guided walking tour of Valletta, Malta's historical capital city and UNESCO world heritage site.
18:15 - crossing the harbour to Birgu by boat
18:30 - 19:30 - guided walking tour of Birgu
19:30 - 22:00 - Dinner in Birgu
22:00 - transport 

Presentation by EFSA representative

This presentation was given by Mr Stylianos Koulouris - Scientific officer, European Food Safety Authority (EFSA)

  • Capacity Building on Food Risk Assessment
Posters for first day seminar

The following posters were presented by students during the first day seminar, where they demonstrated their research to each other and to other attendants of the event. 

Instructions for participating students  

Participating students have to prepare posters with the following dimensions:
A2 - 594mm height x 420mm width 
The posters should be printed in Profile layout (NOT landscape).
The poster presentation should ideally be eye-catching, detailing the research area and activity being performed by the student for their Masters or Ph.D. research. If possible, the role of quantitative approaches have/can play in their research should also be presented. 

Here is a suggested structure:

  • A short introduction of your Institute and the research group
  • A section on what you are doing (with some preliminary results), but quite general
  • A clearly add at the bottom of the poster the EU flag + “With the support of the Erasmus+ programme of the European Union, Project No: 2014-1-MT01-KA200-000327” (in blue text) on the left side of the EU flag.

Study at UM

https://www.um.edu.mt/r/projects/q-safe/teachingactivities/teachingactivity1-malta