Wageningen UR (University & Research centre)

For quality of life

6 October 2014, Xueqin Zhu

livingenvironment

Mission and domain

food and foodproduction

health, lifestyleand livelihood

Sustainable agriculture Nutrition and health Sustainable fishery Biomass Chains

Marine resourcemanagement

Landscape and land use Nature & Biodiversity Water management Competing claims

Behaviour and perception Food security Institutions Consumer Citizen

to explore the potential of nature to improve the quality of life

healthy food and living environment:

Our strengths

8.000 BSc/MSc-students from >100 countries

>1.700 PhD, 250 graduates/year 2.475 fte Faculty and staff in 2013

Research Top 3 in our domains Top 100 worldwide in

university ranking

Education

75th (Times’ higher education)

37th ‘Life and agriculture Sciences’ (Shanghai index)

1st in the NL (Guide to higher education)

Our focus in the Alfabet project

Socio-economic analysis of food and the bio-based economy, nature, environment and climate: Sustainable agro-production

Water

Sustainable use of space/land

Bio-based systems and products

Food, health and behaviour

Multi-disciplinary approach: we welcome students of economics & management with strong interests in sustainable production of food, or students of agricultural/natural sciences with strong interests in economics.

Wageningen Campus welcomes you!