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EU Specific Support Action - “Training and mentoring early career scientists from candidate, associated and Mediterranean countries in a whole food chain approach to quality and safety” 
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The positions
Forty positions for Early-Career Scientists in meat quality and safety are available within an EU Specific Support Action (SSA) coordinated by EAAP with partners of NFC, Teagasc, (Ireland); IRTA (Spain); UNKA (Hungary) and ILRT (UK).
 
Project aims and summary
The project aims to provide an opportunity for 40 Early career animal scientists (ECS) from candidate, associated and Mediterranean countries to increase their knowledge and networking through training and mentoring in a whole food chain approach to meat safety and quality. Training events will provide awareness of EU research and the challenges of the whole food chain approach. The ECS will be supported to develop research proposals relevant to their countries / regions or wider entities that can later be submitted as full RTD proposals to the EU. Training in presentational and eLearning techniques will assist in the further dissemination of project outputs.  eLearning materials will be developed to form a key part of the dissemination process, supported by networks and the ECS. Four regional dissemination events targeted at over 300 stakeholders will be organised with the support and participation of the ECS for interaction, dissemination of research, promotion of eLearning packages and the training of other ECS and the staff of meat chain industries.
The project will last 34 months (to end March 2008) and the selected candidates will be appointed from September 2005 with first training seminar scheduled for the end of November 2005.