The African Nutrition Leadership Programme
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The African Nutrition
Leadership Programme
Fré Pepping, PhD
Nutrition, Food Technology, Agrobiotechnology and Health Sciences
A cooperative endeavour of four universities:
Wageningen, Maastricht, Nijmegen and Utrecht
(and five research institutes):
VLAG's two major tasks are:
• to provide its PhD students with a research and education programme of academic excellence
• to provide added value to its programme by funding research projects and by acquiring external funding for large-scale multidisciplinary research projects
•See www.vlaggraduateschool.nl
History-NLP’s
1994 1st edition of European NLPat this moment 12th edition going on target group final year PhD’s/young post
docs ‘guests’ from LAmerica, Africa, Asia
participated and established their own X-NLP (2006 guests from China/Iran)
History ANLP
4 editions 2002 – 2005,80 participants, good geographical
spreadOrganisation;
North West University (RSA) Univ. of Venda (RSA) Wageningen University (NL)
Successful??
Azza Gohar (ANLP 2003) now director of Nutrition institute in Egypt
Anna Lartey (ANLP 2002) elected in IUNS Council
Future
5th edition 1 – 10 November 20066th edition 18 – 28 March 2008extra (shorter) edition prior to FANUS,
Quarzazate, Morocco, 7-9 May 2007
www.africanutritionleadership.org
Not yet enough?
Asia- Also 4 edition between 2002-2005- 105 participants- 50% Indonesia, 10% from Vietnam,
Phillipines, Thailand and Malaysia, rest Lao PDR, Iran, Cambodia