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Wageningen University and Research Centre (WUR)
Institution
Section overview
- Description
- Activities
- Subordinate institutions
- Networks
- Coordinated projects
- Work package leader of collaborative projects
- Coordinated projects of subordinate institutions
- Coordinated collaborative projects of subordinate institutions
- Subordinate institutions as work package leader of collaborative projects
- Involved in research projects
- Contact
Description
‘To explore the potential of nature to improve the quality of life’. That is the mission of Wageningen UR (University & Research centre). A staff of 6,500 and 10,000 students from over 100 countries work everywhere around the world in the domain of healthy food and living environment for governments and the business community-at-large.
The strength of Wageningen UR lies in its ability to join the forces of specialised research institutes, Wageningen University and Van Hall Larenstein University of Applied Sciences. It also lies in the combined efforts of the various fields of natural and social sciences. This union of expertise leads to scientific breakthroughs that can quickly be put into practice and be incorporated into education. This is the Wageningen Approach.
The domain of Wageningen UR consists of three related core areas:
Food and food production
Living environment
Health, lifestyle and livelihood
Wageningen UR has branches all over The Netherlands (and in China and Brazil, by the way). A large number of lecturers, researchers and other employees are based at Wageningen Campus.
Activities
- Research
Subordinate institutions
- Animal Science Group
- Wageningen Bioveterinary Research
- Business Economics Group
- Laboratory of Nematology
- Plant Research International
- Institute of Food Safety
- Alterra Wageningen UR
- Institute for Marine Resources and Ecosystem Studies
- Stichting Dienst Landbouwkundig Onderzoek
- Centre for Innovative Consumer Studies
- Laboratory of Food Process Engineering
Coordinated projects
- Combining approaches for phytosynthetic improvement to allow increased sustainability in European agriculture
- Cross-Boundary wild boar - From the landscape to pathogens: an ecological case study in the European wild boar
- Interplay: interaction of microbial colonization and intestinal function during postnatal development of the pig: Innovative approaches to sustainable animal production
- Managing risks. Work package 2.1: Inter spread model for economic impact assessment
- Managing risks. Work package 2.2: Cross border action plans for crisis situations
- Q-PorkChains. Module IV: Integration and Sustainable Management of the Production Chain
- Q-PorkChains. Module VI: Synthesis of Existing Knowledge on Pork Quality, Safety and Welfare
- QUARISMA. Work package 1: Chain Management
- SEAMLESS - System for Environmental and Agricultural Modelling; Linking European Science and Society
Work package leader of collaborative projects
Coordinated projects of subordinate institutions
- BIOEXPLOIT - Exploitation of natural plant biodiversity for the pesticide-free production of food
- Collaborative project: Development of an aptamer-based biosensor for the detection and investigation of allergens and their allergenic potential in foodstuffs. Subproject 5
- Contaminants in food and feed: inexpensive detection for control of exposure (CONFFIDENCE)
- EU-SOL - High Quality Solanaceous Crops for Consumers, Processors and Producers by Exploration of Natural Biodiversity
- FLINT - Farm Level Indicators for New Topics in Policy Evaluation
- Goat BSE: proposal for improvement of goat TSE discriminative diagnosis and susceptibility based assessment of BSE infectivity in goat milk and meat
- Innovative and practical management approaches to reduce nitrogen excretion by ruminants (REDNEX)
- Judgement and knowledge in fisheries including stakeholders (JAKFISH)
- META-PHOR Metabolomic Technology Applications for plants, health and outreach
- SAFE FOODS - Promoting food safety through a new integrated risk analysis approach for foods
- SafeGuard. Work package 1.6 Towards one economic livestock production Euregio Nederland-Nordrhein-Westfalen-Niedersachsen
- SafeGuard. Work package 1.7 Minimisation of the economic consequences of Aujeszky’s Disease outbreaks in the Euregio NL-NRW-NDS
- SafeGuard. Work package 4.3 Economic optimization of Monitoring and Surveillance systems
- State-of-the-art on crisis communication. 1a
- WELFARE QUALITY - Integration of animal welfare in the food quality chain: from public concern to improved welfare and transparent quality
Coordinated collaborative projects of subordinate institutions
Subordinate institutions as work package leader of collaborative projects
Involved in research projects
- Bacterial abiotic cellular stress and survival improvement network (BACSIN)
- Bottom-up design and fabrication of industrial bio-inorganic nano-porous membranes with novel functionalities based on principles of protein self-assembly and biomineralization (MEM-S)
- Chicory as a multipurpose crop for dietary fibre and medicinal sesquiterpenes
- Co-design of novel contract models for innovative agri-environmental-climate measures and for valorisation of environmental public goods
- Cross Border Integrated Quality Assurance in fruit and vegetable business- Tools for the intercompany quality management in fruit and vegetable chains
- DEMETER - Determination of metrics of emerging risk
- Determination of metrics of emerging risk
- Developing a ruminal physiologically based model for the evaluation of dietary structural effectiveness in high-yielding dairys cows
- Development of EU wide animal transport certification system and renovation of control posts in the European Union
- E-Trust - Building trust for quality assurance in emerging markets for food chains
- Efficient Carbon, Nitrogen and Phosphorus cycling in the European Agri-food System and related up- and down-stream processes to mitigate emissions
- Enhanced productivity and competitiveness of vegetable-processing industry in the German-Dutch border region through control of soil-borne pathogens
- Enhancements of pest risk analysis techniques (PRATIQUE)
- EuroDISH - Study on the need for food and health research infrastructures. Subproject 7
- Food labelling to advance better education for life (FLABEL)
- Identification of functionally active genomic features relevant to phenotypic diversity and plasticity in cattle
- Identification of host-derived biomarkers of latent infections with Mycobacterium avium ssp. paratuberculosis (MAP)
- Innovative and practical management approaches to reduce nitrogen excretion by ruminants (REDNEX)
- Innovative model and demonstration based water management for resource efficiency in integrated multitrophic agriculture and aquaculture systems. Innovative Aquaponics for Professional Application
- Integral - Future-oriented integrated management of European forest landscapes
- Integration of farm management information systems to support real-time management decisions and compliance of management standards (FUTUREFARM)
- Long-term Europe-Africa Research Network on neglected arboviral zoonotic diseases
- Managing risks. Work package 1.1: Early Warning System (EWS) for the analysis of case numbers of animals
- Metabolic effects of Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals: novel testing methods and adverse outcome pathways
- Metagenomics for bioexploration - tools and application (METAEXPLORE)
- Multiplex phOtonic sensor for pLasmonic-based Online detection of contaminants in milK
- Novel characterization of crop wild relatives and landraces resources as a basis for improved crop breeding
- Novel polysaccharide modifying enzymes to optimise the potential of hydrocolloids for food and medical applications (POLYMODE)
- Paradigm for novel dynamic oceanic resource assessments
- Preparatory action to boost global crop yield for food & nutrition security and fueling bioeconomy
- PromSTAP (promotion the stable to table approach) - Crossing European boundaries: Structural improvements in European rural areas - European regions competing jointly on world food markets
- Rational design of plant systems for sustainable generation of value-added industrial products (SMARTCELL)
- Renovation and promoting high quality control posts in the European Union
- Replacement of sulphur dioxide (SO2) in food keeping the same quality and shelf-life of the products (SO2SAY)
- Securing the spices and herbs commodity chains in Europe against deliberate, accidental or natural biological and chemical contamination (SPICED)
- Small Fish and Food Security: Towards innovative integration of fish in African food systems to improve nutrition
- Steering animal production systems towards sustainable future (ERA-Net SusAn)
- Sustainable pig production systems
Contact
Wageningen University and Research Centre
(WUR)
Droevendaalsesteeg 4, Building nr. 104
NL-6702 PB Wageningen
Netherlands
Netherlands
Phone: +31 317 480 100
Fax: +31 317 484 884
Email: info(@)wur.nl