MSc in Aquatic Food Production - Safety and Quality
- About the programme
The Nordic Master AQFood is a unique education for the aquatic food sector linking advanced aquatic food production, processing and distribution with issues of importance for tomorrow's consumers, industry and society.
The demand for aquatic food worldwide is increasing drastically and at the same time there is a pressure for more efficient production and distribution systems to deliver healthy, and safe food also taking into account the environmental and sustainability issues throughout the entire aquatic food value chain.
AQFood is an international master education open to all and offering mobility between the Nordic Countries with three specialised study lines:
Aquatic Production, Natural Resources and Industrial Production.
Target group
The Nordic Master in "Aquatic Food production – Safety and Quality" AQFood targets Nordic and International students with background in chemistry, biology natural sciences, environment, health and production, biotechnology who are interested in specialising in Aquatic Food at the Master level.
The programme is designed for students who wish to pursue a career in the aquatic food production, whether they will be professionals in aquaculture production, industrial food production or natural resource management. The focus in AQFood is to address the entire value chain and to consider important aspects of economy, production management as well as environmental challenges making it a unique Master education.
International master's programmes
– admission for autumn 2012
Applicants with a first degree from Norway or one of the other Nordic countries as well as Norwegian and Nordic citizens: Please refer to these admission procedures within 15th of April.
The preliminary application deadline for admission in autumn 2012 has passed for applicants with a first degree from other countries than the Nordic countries. The application form for admission in the autumn semester of 2013 will be available from october 2012.
Universities:
The Nordic Master Programme "Aquatic Food Production – Safety and Quality" (AQFood) is offered by a consortium of five leading universities in the Nordic countries. The universities are working together to deliver a key education for the aquatic food sector.
AQFood is linking aquatic food production, processing and distribution with quality and safety issues of importance for tomorrow's consumers, industry and society. The five universities are:
• Technical University of Denmark (DTU), National Food Institute, Kgs Lyngby, Denmark.
• Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Department of Biotechnology, Trondheim, Norway.
• Norwegian University of Life Science (UMB), Department of Mathematical Sciences and Technology, Aas, Norway.
• Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), Department of Wildlife, Fish and Environmental studies, Umeå, Sweden.
• University of Iceland (HI), School of Engineering & Natural Science, Reykjavik, Iceland.
