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Merry Christmas and a happy new year

Thank you very much for a successful, active, diverse last project year. How the time flies – the final report will be handed in after the holidays.

We are very grateful for everything that could be achieved so far and for all the great collaboration and support.

Have a peaceful and relaxed holiday time and see you next year with fresh energy and motivation.

 

 

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partner video UNCo Argentina is ready

We are very happy to share that the promotional videos of the 4 universities within the project are ready. The objective was to create a video to describe and promote the study program and the experience and participation in the EDULIVE project. Today we share the video of UNCO-Universidad Nacional del Comahue of Cinco Saltos, Neuquén, Argentina with you. Enjoy.

see the video on Youtube

https://youtu.be/Rsc_kTgUzEk

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project video is up

Dear readers, we are proud to present our project video on the EDULIVE objective and value, explained by Latin American project partners in personal interviews during their Europe visit in June2018. They also talk specifically about their experiences during the 2 weeks of program and excursions in Austria (BOKU, Vienna) and France (MSA, Montpellier). Let us know what you think in the comments below.

f.l.t.r.: Alfonso Burgos, Manager of Inca Tops. Enrique Flores Mariazza, Principal of La Molina.

big impact: MoU between UNALM and IncaTops

We are very proud to announce the Memorandum of Understanding between UNALM-Universidad Nacional Agraria La Molina and Inca Tops. The MoU was signed on June 20th, as a direct result of our project Edulive. This is the foundation of a promising university and stakeholder collaboration in the field of alpaca breeding/keeping and animal science.

Inca Tops, a well-known wool company, founded in 1965, offer best quality tops and yarns in alpaca, wool, cotton and special blends. They create job opportunities, not only through their Social Responsibility Programs, keeping hand-knitting and other Andean traditions alive. Also, the world leading research and genetic center for alpacas “Pacomarca“ with its “Pacomarca Sustainable Alpaca Network” is part of Inca Tops.

UNALM is the renowned National University for Agriculture in Lima, founded back in the twentieth century. With their many different study programs and their network of research centres  and regional development centres covering the main regions of Peru, their high quality offer is broad and diverse.

We are glad to see such results and impact and wish both parties a beneficial cooperation.

 

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Europe visit 2017 – two weeks in Austria and Spain

Since the project is directed at the staff level of universities, a central part of the staff training is a yearly visit to Europe to exchange views, strategies and different realities of university structures. Each of the four partner universities – UNALM-Universidad Nacional Agraria La Molina in Lima-Peru, UNSAAC-Universidad Nacional San Antonio Abad del Cusco in Cusco-Peru, UNR-Universidad Nacional de Rosario in Rosario-Argentina and UNCO-Universidad Nacional del Comahue in Neuquén-Argentina – can select 2 professors linked to the practical education of students. In 2016, the group went to UCM-Universidad Complutense de Madrid in Madrid-Spain and MSA-Montpellier SupAgro in Montpellier-France. This October, they spent one week each at BOKU and UCM.

BOKU hosts… Erasmus+ project partners

After an initial welcome meeting with the project coordinators, the group actively participated in a meeting with the service unit ‘Research Support, Innovation & Technology Transfer’ on October 16, where DI Bernhard Koch held an interesting presentation on the interaction with industry partners, research inventions and patents. On the next day, they attended the Master and Doctoral Seminar of the animal breeding group and a highly beneficial talk with Dr. Alfons Willam – responsible of the Master’s program Animal Science – to get to know teaching strategies at BOKU and the Master program’s integration of stakeholders. After a refreshing lunch at the traditional restaurant Café Einstein, they went to the public Erasmus+ Event at House OeAD, organized by the project. The afternoon was filled with exciting presentations about Erasmus+ and example projects at BOKU: after an opening by Mag. Gerhard Volz of OeAD and Dr. Andreas Melcher (CDR-BOKU), Martina Friedrich of OeAD gave an overview of the Erasmus+ program and a short movie was played. Then, Dr. Margarita Calderón-Peter (ZIB-BOKU) gave an insight on Erasmus+ at BOKU, followed by three presentations of current projects coordinated by BOKU: Dr. Roland Ramusch (Institute of Waste Management) talked about his project Latin American-European network on waste electrical and electronic equipment research, development and analyses (LaWEEEda), DI Rainer Svacinka (Institute of Food Science) presented the project South East Asia Academy of Beverage Technology (SEA-ABT) and Dr. Maria Wurzinger summarized project EDULIVE. After some closing remarks, the international participants – from the Latin-American project partners and local project coordinators to representatives of the embassy of Argentina and Thailand – gathered at the regional, organic buffet for some more networking.

The next two days were spent outside of Vienna at an excursion to Styria, including a visit at the research station Raumberg-Gumpenstein with tours on research in the field of cattle, sheep and goats, as well as the research farm Moarhof with a tour on organic farming and dairy cattle; a walk in the well-preserved village Pürgg with a following dinner and Austrian folk music at the traditional restaurant Krenn, a farm visit at family farm Gruber, a visit and guided tour on Austrian wool textiles at the factory Steiner 1888 and last, but not least a visit and guided tour of Admont Abbey, the biggest monastery library worldwide.

The week was rounded off with a workshop dedicated to reflection and integration of the newly acquired knowledge and viewpoints with Mag. Thomas Guggenberger – Head of Quality Management at BOKU – with the additional task of developing ideas on how to implement the new findings into the home institutions. Also, feedback was given on the project week and its organization for analysis and further improvement for the next visit in 2018.

Details on the time at UCM in Spain will follow.

We published this article in BOKU magazine, take a look here.

Read the detailed version here.

Check out the photo gallery here and on our Facebook page.

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basics first: about the project

The website and social media channels are up and running, photos are looking great and pages or posts are stuffed with news. But I want to take a quick moment to get back to the basics: What is this project EDULIVE, what is the idea behind it, what happened so far, what do we want to achieve and HOW?

Simply navigate to the pages about edulive to get an idea of what the project is all about. You also find the hard facts there for the most important info at a glance.

Check out our calendar (also in the left upper corner on the news page) to see what has happened so far in the project.

For more visual content, browse through photo galleries and downloadable files on the media page.

Any questions? Visit our Facebook page, comment on this blog post or send an email via the contact form.

We are very glad to have you here. Thank you for your interest and time and step by again soon.