South East Asia Academy for Beverage Technology Erasmus Project

Project Title

South East Asia Academy for Beverage Technology

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Capacity Building in higher education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2015

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics:

Project Summary

Currently Thailand clearly lacks in capacities to supply the beverage industry with adequately trained students and qualified non-academic staff. There are either technical engineers with technical knowledge & skills, but lacking of deeper knowledge on food quality, hygiene, production processes, etc., or food scientists, less skilled in engineering and without deeper knowledge in beverage technology. Now the Thai beverage industry trains their employees in house or in a limited number by Universities or overseas. The last option is only possible for few selected employees. A proper structured and sustainable collaborative concept for high quality continuing professional development (CPD) training for beverage technology is not established.To overcome these gaps a consortium of Thai and EU universities and companies of the beverage industry will establish systematically an independent joint Academy, with hubs in Thailand and EU, to enable a new sustainable collaboration between the partners for a continuing needs analysis, for developing new demand driven educational products using innovative pedagogical approaches and teaching tools to be used in CPD and higher Education (HE). Special emphasis will be given also to hygiene and environmental aspects and skills like teamwork, critical thinking and English language. The developed educational products will be qualified according international standards and implemented in a postgraduate master, in existing curricula to have an optional focus in beverage technology with the option for double/joint degrees with EU universities. Further the Academy will establish a high quality and certified LLL program using existing facilities and a certification scheme for different profiles like quality and safety manager, brewing technologist, wine technologist, etc.With the postgraduate education and the CPD training an impact will be achieved both in short time as well long term with the tuned curricula.

Project Website

http://www.sea-abt.eu

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 999774 Eur

Project Coordinator

UNIVERSITAET FUER BODENKULTUR WIEN & Country: AT

Project Partners

• HABLA CHEMIA GMBH
• CHULALONGKORN UNIVERSITY
• KASETSART UNIVERSITY
• KING MONGKUT’S INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY LADKRABANG
• PATKOL PUBLIC COMPANY LIMITED
• UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI TERAMO
• HOCHSCHULE GEISENHEIM