Project

Explorative mission to University of Cuenca (Ecuador) to develop a fully fledged TEAM proposal

Code

13v01221-57

Duration

01 January 2022 → 31 August 2022

Funding

Federal funding: VLIR-UOS

Promotor

Filip Van Bockstaele

Research disciplines

Agricultural and food sciences
- Food and additive engineering
- Food technology
- Post harvest technologies of plants, animals and fish (incl. transportation and storage)

Keywords

Ecuador quinoa TEAM capacity building

Project description

This project encompasses an explorative mission to the University of Cuenca (Ecuador) to develop a fully fledged TEAM proposal entitled ‘Revaluing quinoa: participative cultivation, food applications and safe consumption in the Southern Andean region of Ecuador’. The mission will consist of several activities including group discussions, encounters with the multidisciplinary team and external stakeholders, lab or field visits and collaborative project proposal development.