Training program

Training network of Edulia

Training network of Edulia

Edulia will address the question of how to balance food pleasure and nutritional needs for children in a changing society through a training network compromising leading scientists in the children’s Food Choice arena, and eleven early stage researchers (ESRs). The ESRs will become experts at the interface of the following complementary fields: Food Science, Sensory Science and Perception, Sensometrics, Human Nutrition, Consumer Behaviour, Eating Behaviour, Social Marketing, Food Socialization, Psychology, Cognitive Science and Neurosciences.

All ESRs in the training network will develop personal career development plans which will lead to a PhD, and include four areas balancing academic and non-academic training:

1) Training by research

  • Individual research projects
  • Supervision of a team of experienced researchers in their field
  • Host organisations are recognized for standards of excellence
  • Applied research in non-academic partners highly experienced in R&D activities (Tine, Arla, Elior, Sammontana, WUR-FBR)
  • Research activities in more than one work-package to ensure cross-field exposure

2) Lecture based training

  • Research-specific courses on complementary and transferrable skills (30 ECT) during the two first year
  • Local training courses (see table below)
  • Workshops
  • Edulia training schoolds
  • Participation and presentations at international conferences

3) Training by market and societal interaction

  • Applied research in non-academc partners within industry and public sector
  • To better understand industrial perspectives and societal challenges
  • Down-to-market problem solving
  • Projects on catering to schools (ESR10)
  • Children-driven healthy product development and product reformulation (ESR2, ES3, ESR5, ESR6, ESR11)
  • Data collection with children in real market setting ( ESR8 and ESR9 ), in a market research company (Kidvertising).
  • Policy development in local public agencies (ESR1, ESR4 and ESR11)
  • Outreach activities will serve to fulfill this training objective.

4) Training by knowledge exchange

  • Cross-border and cross-sector interaction
  • Teamwork between ESRs
  • Edulia PhD seminars organised annually (Months 12, 24, 36)
  • ESRs will give presentations on the progress of their projects
  • Network debates
  • Cross-disciplinary teamwork:
    • After each of the three Training schools, ESRs will have a task on the topic under study
    • The task will be defined by the program outline responsible partners.
    • ESRs will work remotely (online) in groups from different disciplines
    • They will  a common report to the Technical Committee two months after the training school.
    • This work is aimed to enhance teamwork and flexibility capabilities for cross disciplinary collaboration.
    • The student groups will be shuffled in the three years and will always be comprised of 2 or 3 students working on different WPs.

Overview of Edulia main training events & conferences

  1. Training school (2-day) focus on WP2 and WP5:
    • Sensory perception and Food Choice
    • Satiety and overeating.
    • Half day workshop on transferrable skills: public policies development, led by Netherlands Nutrition Centre Foundation.
    • Responsible partners WUR, Nofima, NC
    • Month 12
  2. PhD seminar (2-day)
    • In depth literature review with special focus on previous EU projects.
    • Presentation of individual working plans.
    • Responsible partners WUR, Nofima, NC
    • Month 12
  3. Training school (2-day) focus WP6 and WP7:
    • Social interactions their relation to children’s food choice
    • Nudging and Social Marketing as tools to enhance healthy eating in children.
    • Half day workshop on transferrable skills: commercial awareness in the food industry
    • Responsible partners: INRA, MAPP-AU, Elior
    • Month 24
  4. PhD seminar (2-day):
    • Presentation and discussion of research results
    • Responsible partners: INRA, MAPP-AU, Elior
    • Month 24
  5. Training school (2-day): WP3 & WP4.
    • Children focused methods to better understand food choice
    • Children driven healthy food development
    • Half day workshop on transferrable skills: project development and market communication, led by Sammontana.
    • Responsible partners: UNIFI, UdelaR, Sammontana
    • Month 36
  6. PhD seminar (2-day):
    • Practical experience on secondments
    • Responsible partners: UNIFI, UdelaR, Sammontana
    • Month 36
  7. Half day workshop on transferrable skills (only for ESRs):
    • Management and leadership in the food industry, led by TINE.
    • Knowledge & data management led by the Norwegian Institute of Public Health (FHI)
    • Responsible partners NOFIMA, TINE, FHI
    • Month 48
  8. Edulia closing conference
    • open to academia, research institutes, industry, and governmental institutions
    • Presentation of results from the complete project
    • Responsible: All WP leaders
    • Month 48

 

Total ECTs of Network-wide training events 1 to 8 =10

Overview of Planned local training courses for each ESR

Below are listed for each ESR planned Research specific courses as well as courses for complementary  and transferrable skills courses

  • ESR1
    • Qualitative methods; Behavior and Incentives; Topics in Behavioural Economics; Social media
    •  Research Ethics and Philosophy of Science; Entrepreneurship; Gender studies ; Design of experiments and analysis of variance
  • ESR2
    • Qualitative methods; Essentials of Neurophysiology: from neurons to circuits to behaviours; Advanced neurobiology
    • Research Ethics and Philosophy of Science; Entrepreneurship; Gender studies; Design of experiments and analysis of variance
  • ESR3
    • Sensory & Consumer methods for food product development; Individual differences in food preferences; Computational Statistics
    • Mathematical modelling for food processing; Quality Management in Food Industry; Publishing in international peer reviewed journals
  • ESR4
    • Psychology of health and environmental behaviour; Energy metabolism and body composition; How to evaluate interventions in public health practice
    • Entrepreneurship in and outside Science; Effective behaviour in your professional surroundings; Efficient Writing Strategies; Presenting with Impact
  • ESR5
    • Sensory perception and food preferences; Energy metabolism and body composition; How to evaluate interventions in public health practice
    • Entrepreneurship in and outside Science; Effective behaviour in your professional surroundings; Efficient Writing Strategies; Presenting with Impact
  • ESR6
    • Sensory tools for investigating eating behaviour across the lifespan; Data analysis; Introductory courses to R and SAS
    •  Professional Communication; Management and entrepreneurship; Scientific Culture
  • ESR7
    • Research ethic, Bio-ethic in humans; Ethology and behavior science; Psycho-social development of children
    •  Professional Communication; Management and entrepreneurship; Scientific Culture
  • ESR8
    •  The Role of Theory Research; Advanced Qualitative Research Methodologies; Preparing, Writing and Reviewing Journal Articles
    • Introduction to Planning, Presentation technique and Teaching; Classic and contemporary entrepreneurship theory
  • ESR9
    • The Role of Theory Research; Advanced Qualitative Research Methodologies; Preparing, Writing and Reviewing Journal Articles
    • Introduction to Planning, Presentation technique and Teaching; Classic and contemporary entrepreneurship theory
  • ESR10
    • Neurogastronomy; Interior Design & Meal environment
    • Research Methods; Concept Design & Development
  • ESR11
    • Methodologies to study consumer perception; Neuromarketing; Development of public policies
    • Research Ethics and Philosophy of Science; Entrepreneurship; Gender studies