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Modeling climate effects on crops and cropping systems
The NOVA secretariat hereby announces open autumn call for NOVA courses 2011 with application deadline October 15th 2010.
NOVA Intensive Master Courses (NIMC)
Decision on PhD Course Funding 2011, spring call
During its June meeting NOVA KUF made decision on the received applications in the spring call for PhD courses 2011.
A list of the 15 funded PhD courses is now available.
Contracts have been sent to the grant holders.
Another call for NOVA PhD courses 2011 will be opened in the fall, with application deadline Ocober 15th
Dates set to the postponed PhD course
Dates have been set for the postponed Phd course Public Policy for the Global Food System with Emphasis on Developing Countries.
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The course will be held in week 10 and 11 in the year 2011, from 7th to 18th of March, with both days inclusive. |
The PhD course
Public Policy for the Global Food System with Emphasis on Developing Countries has been postponed to the winter 2011. Further announcements will be made as soon as course dates and admission deadlines have been set.
Applied statistics with R - full course
The NOVA course "Applied statistics with R for the agricultural, life and veterinary scineces" which will be held 15-20 August is full.
A great deal of interest has been shown in the above mentioned course in statistics. NOVA regrets having to announce that the course is full and of no use to apply for admission even though the admission deadline is the first of July, and hopes that it will be possible for those who do not have a chance to join the course to attend a similar course at a later time.
The NOVA PhD course "Training researchers to commercialize research" which was planned to run this fall has been cancelled. The organiser/leader of the course, Professor Heriberto Rodriquez-Martinez, has very recently decided to leave SLU and thus the course in question has been cancelled. Hopefully a smiliar course is to be settled in a near future.
Diagnosis of Plant Diseases BSc summer course
The application deadline to the open summer course Diagnosis of Plant Diseases at Aarhus University, Faculty of Agriculturas Sciences has been changed to 30 June 2010 while still a few places are available for students.
Information on the course is found here >>>
The network Animal Breeding was awarded the NOVA Prize 2010 at the Annual Seminar.
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Based on the long and successful history of Animal Breeding within NOVA, full Nordic participation, broad supply of courses, number of courses per year and students evaluations the network was awarded the NOVA Prize 2010. On behalf of the network professor Jarmo Juga from the University of Helsinki and associate professor Emma Eyþórsdóttir from the Agricultural University of Iceland accepted the award from Ágúst Sigurðsson chair of NOVA Board and rector of LbhI.
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The Annual Seminar 2010 was held at Selfoss in Iceland 6-7 May.
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Volcanic activity disturbances at SAS - Icelandair flying as sceduled
This Wednesday morning May 5. SAS has cancelled their flight to Iceland but Icelandair will be flying as sceduled today. In Iceland westerly and norhtwesterly winds are forecasted throughout this week and Keflavik airport will not be affected by ash or ash traces.
The Annual Seminar will be held as sceduled May 6-7 in Selfoss and it is the hope of the local Icelandic NOVA team that all participants will be able to attend and not experience much inconvenience due to the cancellation of the flight SK4787 from Gardemoen this morning.
Due to power problems in Uppsala the NOVA database is temporarily down.
Application deadline will be delayed accordingly and announced here on the web
Application submission deadline 16 April
The NOVA database is now active again and submission deadline for applications will be April 16.
Open summer course 2010 at University of Aarhus
The Faculty of Agricultural Sciences offers one summer school course in 2010 open to NOVA students. The course, Diagnosis of Plant Diseases is a 10 day master level course taking place from 5 to 16 July 2010 at the Department of Integrated Pest Management, Research Centre Flakkebjerg.
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Information on the course Diagnosisof Plant Diseases is found here on the NOVA web with a link to the |
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Annual Seminar 2010 registrations
Registrations to Annual Seminar are open to April 12
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Please note that due to Easter holidays registration deadline to the Annual Seminar 2010 in Iceland has been postphoned to April 12. |
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Nominations to the NOVA Prize 2010
Nominations to the NOVA Prize 2010 are open until 12 April.
The NOVA Prize is awarded a person, a group of persons, or a network that is active on any of the NOVA member institutions and that have developed and promoted Nordic cooperation within higher education. The NOVA Prize is 3.000 Euro for individuals and 5 000 Euro for groups and networks.
Nominations may be suggested by employees and students at the member universities. More information on the NOVA Prize and nominations is found here
Annual Seminar 2010 registration
Registrations to NOVA Annual Seminar 2010 are open now and accepted to 6 April.
NOVA Annual Seminar 2010 on New Strategy 2011-2014 and "The Knowledge Triangle", education, research and innovation will be held in Selfoss town, 57 km east of Reykjavík 6-7 May. Registration form, programme and practical information is found under "Annual Seminar 2010".
Please note the registration deadline 6 of April.
The NOVA secretariat hereby announces open spring call for NOVA courses 2011.
Courses that can be funded include NOVA PhD Courses, NOVA Intensive Master Courses (NIMC) and NOVA BSc Summer Courses. More information on this can be found in the separate call for each course type below. Please note that it is now also possible to apply for a NIMC grant for three consecutive years and that no deadline is required for planning, implementation and networking of NOVA Intensive Course (NIMC) or planning PhD course.
NOVA Intensive Master Courses (NIMC)
The workshop Forage Maize in the Nordic countries will be held at the Swedish Agricultural University in Umeå Februari 15-16.
Information and program can be found here
Attached document: Information and program
NOVA has very recently launched this new website. The intention is to make it easier both for the visitor to find information and for the secretariat to publish information.
However, there may be pages that suffer from some infunctionalities due to the move of server, and the NOVA secretariat hopes for patience with respect to this. Please send reports about dead links etc. to the secretariat by e-mail.
Best Season Greetings from the NOVA Secretariat!
NOVA Chairmanship and Secretariat moves to Iceland
As from 1 January 2010, the NOVA Chairmanship and Secretariat will be based at the Agricultural University of Iceland.
NOVA has recently decided to adapt a system with circulating responsibility between the members for chairmanship and secretarial functions. The rotation period will be two years. The first NOVA member to take on these tasks is LBHI, the Agricultural University of Iceland.
As from next year, Ágúst Sigurðsson will be new chair of the NOVA Board, Björn Þorsteinsson will be new chair of NOVA KUF, and Þórunn Reykdal will be new central NOVA coordinator. While the e-mail address to the secretariat will remain the same, other contact details to the secretariat will change:
NOVA Secretariat
Þórunn Reykdal
Agricultural University of Iceland
311 Borgarnes
Iceland
Tel . + 354 433 5004
Fax + 354 433 5001
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"Thorunn" Reykdal
Decision on PhD Course Funding 2010, autumn call
During its November meeting, NOVA KUF made decision on the applications received in the autumn call for PhD courses 2010.
Due to the budget, only one third of the 14 applications could be funded, and the competition was therefore hard. The list of the five funded courses is now available.
Contracts have been sent to grant holders.
New MSc-programme in Agroecology at Alnarp
A new MSc-programme in Agroecology (120 HEC) will start at SLU in Alnarp in autumn 2010. For more information about the programme, please klick on the link below.
MSc in Agroecology (pdf-file)
Websites for the two NOVA-supported Erasmus Mundus MSc-programmes
The two Erasmus Mundus MSc-programmes Food of Life and MSc European Forestry which, with support from NOVA, were recently granted funding have now launched their websites. The websites can be visited at:
The NOVA secretariat hereby announces an autumn call for NOVA courses 2010.
Courses that can be funded include NOVA PhD Courses, NOVA Intensive Master Courses (NIMC), and NOVA BSc Summer Courses. The latter is a new course form for NOCA and more information on this can be found in the separate call for each course type below. Please note that it is now also possible to apply for a NIMC grant for three consecutive years, and that some changes have been made with respect to the PhD courses.
- NOVA Intensive Master Courses (NIMC)
As from 3 August 2009 Helena Eklund Snäll will replace Ulf Jonsell as central NOVA coordinator.
Helena, who has a PhD in Systematic Botany, has previously worked as Node Manager for GBIF-Sweden at the Swedish Museum of Natural History. She will hold her position as NOVA coordinator, which is based at SLU, Uppsala,until the chairmanship of NOVA is transferred to Iceland 1 January 2010.
