Credits: 5 ECTS
Duration: 4 days
Time: 8-11 May 2012
Location: Aalborg University, Frederiks Kaj 10A, Copenhagen

Organisers: Prof. Bent Egberg Mikkelsen and Assoc. Prof. Michael Søgaard Jørgensen

Deadline for registration: 1 May 2012

Local and sustainable food strategies are spreading in public foodscapes across Europe. Municipalities and regions increasingly take on responsibilities for integrating quality, localness, sustainability and food innovation into their procurement strategies as a way of supporting innovation and sustainability criteria both in the food service sector as well as in the food supply chain. These strategies go well hand in hand with health promotion strategies that use local foodscapes and settings as their focal point.

This PhD course on Public Foodscapes investigates current cases of local and sustainable food strategies in the Øresund region as well as European cases and tie the cases together with theoretically based contributions within foodscape, sustainability and super-setting studies.

Guest lecturers in the PhD course are Professor Michael Heasman, Senior Lecturer Roberta Sonnino, Manager Robert Pederson, Bjarne Bruun Jensen and Senior Consultant Vibeke Jessen. 

Please contact Professor Bent Egberg Mikkelsen if you have questions about the course contents.

The course is open to PhD students working with public food and sustainability issues. The course ties field observations, lectures and interviews in Malmö with more theoretical lectures held in Ballerup, students’ PhD project presentations and a final paper integrating field observations, theoretical articles and links to the PhD student’s PhD project.

• To link theoretical perspectives on sustainable food strategies and relocalisation, public food strategies and foodscapes thinking with current practice.
• To link theory and practice within local and sustainable foodscapes with the PhD projects of the participating students.
  
  

You can download a pdf-version of the course programme here.

Programmes for excursion 9 May 2012 can be downloaded here.

Participants will be required to write a three page paper on the PhD project and its relation to local food strategies before the course start, which will be presented in a 20 minute presentation during the course. A reflective note after completion of the course will also be required integrating thoughts on theory and practice issues presented during the course and its relevance to the PhD project.

PhD students: DKK 1,800 (EUR 245) inluding lunch 9 May.

Participants who only join the excursion 9 May: DKK 800 (EUR 110).

The course fee covers material costs and food during the course.

Please register by e-mail to food_course_registration@(if you can see this please update your browser)life.ku.dk.

You can register for the whole course, or just for the excursion 9 May.

If your university or place of work pays your course fee, please include the following information in the registration mail:

1) Your own name, 2) the complete address of your department, 3) the EAN no. of your department, 4) your e-mail, 5) your telephone no.

If you pay the course fee yourself, please include the following information in the registration mail:

1) Your own name, 2) your complete private address, 3) your CPR no., 4) your e-mail, 5) your telephone no.