Summer School

 

Data-assisted Product Development Based on Nutrition Science

Length of course: 5 weekdays

Credit value: 5 ECT

Planned period: 2nd half of July

Who can apply:

Active student status (BSc or MSc) or a diploma (BSc or MSc) in agriculture, technical or natural sciences is required.

Foreign language requirements

Candidates from countries where English is not the language of instruction need to have an internationally accepted English exam: the minimum is a complex (combination of oral and written) intermediate level (B2) language exam, or an equivalent secondary school leaving examination or diploma. List of automatically accepted language exams is available at: https://en.uni-mate.hu/application-form

Short description of the program:

During the 5 weekdays of the summer school each morning there will be 2 theoretical lectures, and a laboratory practical in the aftrenoon. After that students will have time to process the data required on the given day.

About the lectures:

"Nutrition science and practicalities"

The course is intended to give students an overview of the functioning of the digestive system, metabolic processes to understand the effect of food on the body, the physiological aspects of the factors determining the quality and safety of food, and the biological background of health-conscious nutrition. Nutrition recommendations and reformulation programs in the food industry are presented.

"How to write a scientific article?"

During the course, students will learn how to create the structure and write review and research papers. Students will delve into the topic of the lab practices and map the current scientific literature to collect a sufficient number and quality papers to formulate a review. While they are working on their laboratory practices, they will use their obtained data to prepare the research paper, focusing on a product development study. Students, therefore, will be familiarized with the processes of writing reviews and research papers.

About the Laboratory practical:

Students will be divided into groups with focus on product development, measurement techniques (product evaluation) and sensorial evaluation of products. On the first day students will get to know the product, which will be produced during the week by the product development team. They will gain insights in the product evaluation practices as well, which techniques will be studied in detail in the different groups.

Evaluation

At the end of the week, students will present the results of their work in a scientific discussion - they will prepare a base for a scientific article.

For further information contact:  international.food@uni-mate.hu