PhD summer school and joint congress
Potential of Organic Farming to contribute to Rural Development in Europe
In connection with the joint organic congress in Denmark 2006, the Research School for Organic Agriculture and Food Systems (SOAR) plans a research training course for PhD students in Europe, working with organic food and farming.
The whole course is scheduled to run over two and a half weeks: one week for writing pre-course assignment, one week’s intensive course, and three days for revising assignment.
The pre-course assignment should be submitted one week prior to the intensive week. This will prepare participants for the internship, to ensure a common platform for all participants, who are expected to come from very different research environments including Nordic, Baltic, and other European countries. There will be some guiding questions for the assignment.
During the intensive week course participants will attend selected presentations at the joint organic congress to be held in Odense, Denmark on the 30th – 31st of May 2006.
The general aim of the course is to introduce PhD students to recent research in organic food and farming. Specifically, the goal is to create an understanding of the possible connections between rural development and organic food and farming.
Another goal of the course is to formulate researchable hypotheses as inputs to an EU programme on ‘The potential of organic farming to contribute to rural development in Europe’. Through this activity participants will develop competencies in formulation of research questions and programmes, which are relevant in the current economic and political situation in Europe, at the forefront of research in the field, and applicable as researchable issues.
The participant should after the course have a clear understanding of issues and research in rural development and organic food and farming, research methods used in this context, and to be able, on an academic level, to discuss and reflect on her own research in this context.
The course has no specific pre-required knowledge, but participants are expected to do research in the field of organic agriculture and food systems. Preparations to the course will include reading of selected scientific literature relevant to the topic and the pre-course assignment.
Further information on the course can be sought at www.soar.dk, or by contacting SOAR academic assistant Sofie Kobayashi
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