Project ID: 400598444
Call: EAC-A05-2017-CBHE
Period: 2019-2022
Project Leader: Sveuciliste u Zagrebu Agronomski Fakultet – Coordinator
Project Partners: Agraren Universitet-Plovdiv-Agricultural University Plovdiv; Geoponiko Panepistimion Athinon-Agricultural University of Athens; Javna Ustanova Univerzitet Crne Gore Podgorica – UOM; Universiteti “Fan S. Noli” Korçë (“Fan S. Noli” University, Korçë); Univerzitet u sarajevu – UNSA; University of Mostar; Univerzitet u Beogradu; Univerzitet u Novom Sadu; Universita degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro – UNIBA; Sveuciliste Josipa Jurja Strossmayera u Osijeku, Fakultet Agrobiotehnickih Znanosti Osijek – FAZOS; Universiteti Bujqësor i Tiranës-Agricultural University of Tirana-AUT.
The need for highly educated professionals with deep understanding in plant health for sustainable agriculture is high at both, program and partner countries. This project has the ambition of harmonizing and modernizing doctoral education in this field and to create a network of researchers that is capable to respond to current challenges in plant health.
Specific objectives: to harmonize, improve and modernize the doctoral study programs in plant health among partner universities in order to increase the competences and skills of PhD candidates to respond to the global plant health issues; to develop a draft of curriculum of International Joint PhD study program in Plant Health; and to foster regional integration in the field of plant health research and education among WBC and between WBC and EU countries.