Today 02/07/2020 we have had a great remote 2020 advisory board meeting. Thank you to all advisory board members joining the AFEPA Partner Representatives: Máximo Torero Assistant Director General Economic and Social Development Department, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO); Jonathan Brooks Head of Division Agricultural and Resource Policies, Trade and Agriculture Directorate, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD); Guyo Dureti AFEPA student representative intake 19/20 and Bettina Lorenz AFEPA Alumni.

On May 28^th from 2.30-4.00 pm, dr. Pasquale di Rubbo, Plant Health Officer European Commission – Directorate on Crisis management in Animals, Plants and Feed, will give a webinar on “Emerging plant pests threatening the EU agri-food sector: the case of Xylella fastidiosa”. This lecture is open for all interested AFEPA students and will be given through the platform Microsoft TEAMS. All AFEPA students will receive the necessary access information to the stream before the webinar.

On May 26^th from 2-4pm Professor Härdle from Humboldt-Universität Berlin will give a lecture on p_hacking . This lecture is open for all interested AFEPA students. Please note your interest by including your email address here https://terminplaner.dfn.de/Uy4CQ8GBwauAgUWp no later than May 19^th and you will receive the necessary access information to the stream before the lecture.

Since the Coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) is spreading worldwide we would like to inform all students to regularly check the websites providing information at their home universities.

The information provided on the websites will be updated regularly:

UBonn – Information on the coronavirus

SLU – Coronavirus – information for staff and students

UCSC – FAQ – Coronavirus: informazioni sulle attività didattiche e i servizi

UCLouvain – Coronavirus / Information

This summer again the AFEPA summer school is partnering with the ‘GIOVANNI ANANIA’ SUMMER SCHOOL ON EVIDENCE-BASED POLICY MAKING on the topic of “Machine Learning techniques in agricultural, food and environmental policy analysis” on 13-17 July 2020 in Rende (CS), Italy.

The summer school provides an introduction to the use of machine learning techniques and introduces students to their use in agricultural, food and environmental policy analysis. More information including application information for non-AFEPA students can be found here.

As of 31st January the applications for AFEPA admission with scholarship is closed. We are very happy about over 700 applicants. Until 31st March European and non-European students can still apply without scholarship to the AFEPA program intake in fall 2020 by following www.applications.afepa.eu

The AFEPA staff and students at the University of Bonn wish you Merry Christmas and best wishes for the new year!

We proudly announce the intake 19/20 AFEPA student representatives Serena Olivera and Guyo Godana. They will share the task to represent AFEPA students at the Erasmus Mundus Students and Alumni Association (EMA AISBL) and AFEPA advisory board (AB) meetings.

AFEPA representatives from the University of Bonn got the chance to visit the college of basic and applied sciences at the University of Ghana in Accra. We are looking forward to great future collaborations!

As of October 15, 2019 we again accept application to the 2019/20 edition of the programme. Applications for programme admission AND Erasmus Mundus Joint Masters Degrees (EMJMD) Scholarships should be sent not later than January 31, 2020. The application new application plattform can be found at: www.applications.afepa.eu. Please go to this link for all information regarding your application submission. Before applying, please make sure that you fulfill the AFEPA admission requirements.

We are happy to announce that the newly designed application platform will be accessible as of Oct. 15^th for applicatios to programme admission AND Erasmus Mundus scholarhips for the academic intake 201/21.

Please check the Admission requirements to be prepeard when the application platform opens.

Check out the new student testimonies on the AFEPA website! AFEPA Alumni comment on the most important things they learned during the AFEPA program, their experiences and give first hand advice for new students.

Dear future AFEPians,

The student handbook and the list of courses of our main partner universities for the study year 2019-20 are now available on the AFEPA website.

Student handbook 2019-20: https://afepa.eu/?page_id=723

Courses 2019-20: https://afepa.eu/?page_id=1143

We are proud to announce that we received over 450 applications from all over the world, interested to join the AFEPA programme.

The AFEPA committee has been very busy over the last months to select the best fitting students for admission and scholarships. All selections have been made and we are looking forward to welcome our accepted students in the upcoming intake period 2019/20.

Kind regards,

The AFEPA committee