The content of the Summer School focuses on the Mediterranean Foods and their Nutritional Value highlighting the current trends in the field of Food Science and Nutrition. The Mediterranean Foods develop within the unique geomorphologic landscape and alternating climate of the Mediterranean. Through these unique characteristics of the Mediterranean basin, a rich biodiversity of plant and animal organisms emerges which, in turn, transforms into plentiful foods of plant and animal origin.
This diversity in the mediterranean nature generously offers its inhabitants the opportunity to consume foods with high nutritional value, interrelated nowadays with longevity and good health. Current epidemiological studies have revealed a significantly lower frequency of cardiovascular diseases and various types of cancer as regard the inhabitants of the Mediterranean compared to the other populations of the developed countries in the West World.
These comparative advantages of the Mediterranean Nutrition are mainly attributed to the synergistic nutritional value of individual macro-nutritional and micro-nutritional ingredients contained in the Mediterranean Foods and are the object of extensive research worldwide. In this framework, the subject matter of the 1st Summer School will be presented in three Thematic Units:1st Thematic Unit: The natural and anthropogenic environment of the Mediterranean, a birthplace of values, goods and services.2nd Thematic Unit: Mediterranean Foods: production, nutritional value and food quality.3rd Thematic Unit: Mediterranean Nutrition: a valuable tool for the protection of human health.
Period
26-08-2012 - 31-08-2012 (1 weeks)
Target group
The Summer School is aimed at postgraduate students and researchers from universities and technological institutes in the fields of biosciences and health sciences, biologists, chemists, agronomists, doctors, dieticians, nurses, physiotherapists, gymnasts and environmentalists. Scientists and last year university students studying a subject related to the thematic units of the Summer School can also submit an application form.
Course aim
The Summer School aims at highlighting the multilateral parameters which co-determine the nutritional value of the Mediterranean foods. A great number of discernible and/or disparate parameters (Mediterranean area, biodiversity, local products and production process, mediterranean nutrition and human health) make up an interdisciplinary puzzle which lends unique quality to the products of the Mediterranean.The main goal of the Summer School is to bring participants in contact with a great number of internationally renowned scientists from the fields of Environment, Food, Nutrition and Health Sciences.
Participants will benefit not only from this interdisciplinary co-existence and training but also from the opportunity to get to know the production process followed for real, successful Mediterranean nutrition-related products coming from the land of Lemnos.The educational activities offered during the Summer School will provide participants with a unique educational experience during which a gradual decomposition, study and synthesis of the characteristics of the Mediterranean foods will bring their nutritional value to the foreground, substantiating the need for a holistic approach to its preservation. This knowledge adds an important educational value for all participants (attendants and lecturers) and constitutes the innovation of the Summer School.
Credits
0.0 ECTS credits
Course fee
EUR 180: The registration fee includes: Attendance at all the lectures of the Summer School. The educational material comprising of: The lecturers presentationsRelevant international bibliography. The official abstracts book including extended summaries of the lectures, as well abstracts submitted by the attendees. The certificate of attendance accompanied by ECTS (the exact credits will be announce shortly) and/or with correspondence to the national or european (EFQ) lifelong learning framework.Participation to educational visits to local production units of traditional food products of Lemnos.Accompanying material (badge, pen, notepad, programme, CD-ROM with the lecturers presentations and texts) Coffee and snacks during the breaksDiscount coupons at local restaurants
Course leader
Giaginis Constantinos, Assistant Professor University of the Aegean
University of the Aegean various
Address: UNIVERSITY OF THE AEGEAN RESEARCH UNIT UNIVERSITY HILL, MYTILENE
Postal code: 81100
City: Aegean islands
Country: Greece
Website: https://summerschools.pns.aegean.gr/
E-mail: pns3@aegean.gr
Phone: +306945322442
MEDITERRANEAN FOODS and NUTRITIONAL VALUE:Current Trends in Food Science and Nutrition
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