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PE&RC Research Master Program m e Agricultural System s Resilience: The road to sustainable production

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• Dr. Claudius van de Vijver

( PE&RC PhD Program m e Coordinator)

This presentation

Introduction to PE&RC

• Mission
• Research areas
• Participating groups
• Tasks
• PE&RC Training and Education

The PE&RC Research Master Programme in Ecology

• What is the Research Master Programme
• Overview of the Programme
• Time-line

Mission Understanding the functioning of (agro) ecosystems to design and enable the development of sustainable, multifunctional production and land use systems

Production Ecology & Resource Conservation

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PE&RC Research Fields

Variety levels of scale, integration and type of research

global change

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health learning from nature

Focal Areas of research

• Learning from nature
• How to foster ecology-based

sustainable development,

• ptimally using natural

ecosystem services.

• Global change, food

and the environm ent

• Addresses these global issues

using an integral approach that involves social, economic and environmental sustainability, considering systems as networks.

• One health
• Integrated / systems

approach to health of man, animal and plant including nutrition

PE&RC

• National Graduate School
• Partners:
• Wageningen University (21 groups)
• Behavioural Ecology
• Soil Geography and Landscape
• Crop and Weed Ecology
• Mathematical and Statistical Methods
• Crop Physiology
• Nematology
• Entomology
• Plant Breeding
• Farm Technology
• Plant Ecology and Nature Conservation
• Farming Systems Ecology
• Plant Production Systems
• Forest Ecology and Forest Management
• Remote Sensing
• Genetics
• Resource Ecology
• GIS
• Soil Biology and Biological Quality
• Horticulture and Product Physiology
• Virology
• Soil Physics and Land Management

PE&RC

• National Graduate School
• Partners:
• Wageningen University (21 groups)
• DLO Research Institutes (PRI / ALTERRA)
• Utrecht University (Ecology and Biodiversity)
• NIOO (Terrestrial Ecology, Microbial Ecology, Aquatic Ecology, Animal

Ecology)

• Naturalis Biodiversity Center
• University of Amsterdam (IBED)
• Vrije Universiteit (Systems Ecology and Animal Ecology)

PE&RC

Tasks

• Safeguard / enhance quality and progress of academic research

and researchers (PhD, post-docs and academic staff)

• Facilitate / monitor PhD research process and procedures
• Initiate, promote, facilitate PhD training / education activities
• Stimulate interdisciplinary activities among research groups
• Form and control coherence of the university research programme

in an international context

Including stakeholder involvement

1. Doing a PhD is a test that the candidate can function as an independent scientist 2. Societal relevance of science is increasingly required

• Increased demand to contribute to solving global challenges
• Requires inter/ transdisciplinary research approaches
• Moreover: Increasing % PhD graduates follow careers outside

academia

Basis of PhD Training and Education

1. Doing a PhD is a test that the candidate can function as an independent scientist 2. Societal relevance of science is increasingly required

• Increased demand to contribute to solving global challenges
• Requires inter/ transdisciplinary research approaches
• Moreover: Increasing % PhD graduates follow careers outside

academia

3. Demand for a new-generation scientist with a diverse set of competences and skills

PE&RC’s Philosophy

T-shaped skills

 T-Shaped skills

Placing research in societal context Horizontal bar: Broadening Scientific knowledge Vertical Bar: Deepening Skills & Competences

Basis of PhD Training and Education

Focus on:

• (Inter)Active (participatory) training

Adopting T-shaped skills:

The PhD Training and Education Program m e

PE&RC Research Master Program m e

Agricultural System s Resilience: The road to sustainable production 1. Why?

• PhD’s who have followed a Research Master Programme can apply

for an NWO Grant (4 PhD’s)

• Call for proposals: Focus on Systems Resilience and sustainability
• f production systems and sustainable management of natural

systems.

2. Linked to current 2-year Science oriented MSc Programme (120 EC) 3. Optional choice in regular MSc Programme and can be chosen in MSc programmes:

• Biology
• Plant Sciences
• Organic Agriculture
• Earth and Environment (Soil Science)
• Forest and Nature Conservation
• (Inflow from other studies also foreseen)

PE&RC Research Master Program m e

Agricultural System s Resilience: The road to sustainable production 4. Largely overlaps with running MSc Programme 5. More focus on:

• A career in research/ science
• The New Generation Scientist (From fundamental knowledge to

application)

6. Therefore in the Research Master more focus on:

• In depth scientific knowledge and insight
• Skills and competences required to function as a scientist in an

academic environment

• Participatory learning

PE&RC Research Master Program m e

Agricultural System s Resilience: The road to sustainable production 7. The Research Master involves:

• Master courses (48 ECTS)
• Master Thesis (30-36 ECTS)
• Internship (24-30 ECTS)
• Obtain insight in the challenges at stake in the field you are interested in
• Translate into a fundamental research question(s) which will be the

central element of your PhD project proposal

• Obtained done via participatory learning (co-learning)

PE&RC Research Master Program m e

Agricultural System s Resilience: The road to sustainable production 7. The Research Master involves:

• Master courses (48 ECTS)
• Master Thesis (30-36 ECTS)
• Internship (24-30 ECTS)
• Research Master Cluster (RMC) Proposal Writing (12 ECTS):
• Skills training
• Writing of PhD proposal based on outcome internship
• Specific training on academic development given by PE&RC

8. Having accomplished the above allows for a Research Master 9. Regular MSc degree with a PE&RC Research Master Certificate

• 10. To register for this master programme send an email to

Claudius van de Vijver including:

• CV
• Letter of motivation
• Letter of recommendation from a supervisor or study coordinator

Any questions