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Ag-Lab project Newsletter #2

January 2019

Ag-Lab projectNewsletter #2January 2019

Happy New Year from the Ag-Lab Project!

The third Steering Committee meeting of the Ag-Lab project took place in Lviv, Ukraine from 6th to 7th December 2018

A full report of activities fulfilled during first 6 months of the project was presented by Olga Getya, from Ukrainian partner “Agroosvita “

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Reporting by EU partners

Contribution to the elaboration of the training programme for laboratories, the manual for lab practice, dissemination actions + specific tasks: management, quality analyses, purchase of equipment by Krszysztof Kafarski, WUELS, Dario Compagnon, UniTE, Valerie Gerard, VetAgroSup Lyon, Marija Klopcic, Uni Ljubljana.

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A manual devoted to laboratory practice

Ag-Lab will provide its stakeholders with a new approach to teaching specialized courses through a laboratory practice manual for specialists of the agro-food sector in the partner country HEIs.

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Reporting by partner countries (MD, GE and UA)

Implementation of the Master programmes, purchase of equipment, dissemination actions, contacts with the laboratories + specific tasks: management, quality analyses: Elena Scripnic | Larisa Caisin, SAUM, Liuda Fedotova, CSU, Nino Inasaridze, TSU, Tamar Inasaridze, CIU, Sergiy Hryshchenko, NUBiP, Tatiana Yakimova, CRDV, Ana Gulbani LMA, Anna Kievska, SSRILDVE, Andriy Martymyuk, SCAPSE, Olga Getya, Agroosvita, Oleksandr Bonkovski, BNAU, Vasyl Stefanyk, LNUVMB, Ihor Kovalenko , SNAU, Olga Titlova, ONAFT.

Results so far...

After one year, the outcomes of the Ag-Lab project are the following:

- Development and validation of the training courses for master students devoted to the laboratory practice in the field of veterinary medicine, food technologies, agronomy and animal husbandry;

- Launching of the pilot courses for master students at MD, UA and GE universities;

- Purchase of the equipment by some of the universities, other universities are in the process;

- Development of the training programme for the post-diploma courses for acting laboratories staff;

- Implementation of the quality strategy under the coordination of the Wroclaw university of environmental and life sciences;

- Carrying out of the technical work for the Web-portal;

- Different dissemination actions: publications, TV programmes, exhibitions (LabComplex in UA), film in GE.

The second set of Training Sessions also took place in Lviv from 4th to 5th December 2018

Identification of falsification of dairy products, Anna Steciwko-Zielak, WUELS

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NMR methods (Nuclear Magnetic Resonance) for food adulteration, Marco Chiarini, UniTE

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Maintenance and validation of complex equipment: HPLC (High performance liquid chromatography),

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Internal audit in a laboratory, Katarzyna Kosek-Paszkowska, WUELS

Partners then had the opportunity to visit the Lviv state regional laboratory of the veterinary medicine

Project Dissemination

The Ag-Lab project has already been disseminated through different seminars and conferences held at partner universities, Information days, events organized by Erasmus+ offices, TV programs, publications and through partner university web sites and social media. A short film dedicated to the Ag-Lab project will be available in April 2019.