European Master in Agricultural, Food and Environmental Policy Analysis – Erasmus Mundus AFEPA

Duration: 2 years

Course description:
The European Master in Agricultural, Food and Environmental Policy Analysis aims at providing a high quality education in designing and assessing public policies targeted to the agricultural and food sector as well as the rural environment.  This European Master responds to the increasing need to better understand and anticipate the various and often complex socio-economic and environmental effects of these policies either in a functioning market economy as in the European Union or in economies in a development or transition phase.  The European Master offers a two-year academic curriculum with integrated and advanced theoretical, methodological and empirical courses in economics and quantitative methods as well as in agricultural, food and environmental sciences, agricultural and trade policy, environmental and natural resource policy, rural development policy and agribusiness management and market analysis.  To connect theory and methodology to practice, a problem solving project is developed and presented as a master thesis at the end of the two-year curriculum.

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PhD positions at Ghent University, Belgium

PhD positions at Ghent University, Belgium
(http://www.ugent.be/en/news/vacancies/scientific)

1. Scientific researcher (Literature Curator)
<http://www.ugent.be/en/news/vacancies/scientific/ddwlc>
The fellow will work in the Department of Plant Systems Biology
(VIB-Gent University) in a collaborative effort between the groups
Functional Genomics and Systems Biology of Yield, headed by Prof. Pierre
Hilson and Prof. Dirk Inzé, in the framework of the AGRON-OMICS
European Integrated Project (www.agron omics.eu).
You will participate to the curation of primary research results
published in the scientific literature, focusing on the characterization
of plant growth and development processes and emphasizing studies based
on the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana.
The information you collect will be integrated with phenotype and
molecular profiles (transcript, protein, metabolite) with the aim to
build a scaffold to model the coordination of the biological modules
involved in the regulation of plant organ growth.
Last application date: 2010-02-28 17:00
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Track Traffic Safety of Hasselt University

Deadline: December 4th, 2009

Within the Policy Research Centre for Mobility and Public Works - Track Traffic Safety of Hasselt University, the following position (m/f) is available:

Ph. D. student Traffic SafetyPolicy Research Centre for Mobility and Public Works – track Traffic Safety

The Policy Research Centre for Mobility and Public Works, track Traffic Safety (2007-2011) carries out policy relevant research on traffic safety under the authority of the Flemish Government. The activities of the Policy Research Centre include: collecting, analyzing and opening up traffic safety data, carrying out problem oriented and policy relevant scientific research into traffic safety and rendering scientific services. With reference to this, Hasselt University (Transportation Research Institute), also coordinator of the Policy Research Centre, whishes to recruit a fulltime Ph.D.student on traffic safety for a period of 2 x 2 years.

Job description

One of the research activities of the Policy Research Centre for Mobility and Public Works - track Traffic Safety, is to carry out research into the impact of traffic infrastructure and environment on traffic safety. This contains amongst others the setup of the so-called risk models for crossroads and the scientific evaluation of the reorganization of dangerous accident locations in traffic. The researcher will continue the research that already has been carried out into this topic.

Profile and diploma

He/she should have a Masters degree in Transportation Science, Business Engineering, Civil Engineering, Statistics or an equivalent academic college degree. He/she has a strong interest in traffic safety and disposes of knowledge and experience with quantitative research techniques. Senior students are encouraged to apply for this position.

Further information
Content job responsibilities:
o Prof. dr. Geert Wets, 011-26 91 58, geert.wets@uhasselt.be
o Prof. dr. Tom Brijs, 011-29 91 55, tom.brijs@uhasselt.be

Content terms of employment and selection procedure: Jef Vanvoorden, 011-26 80 80, jef.vanvoorden@uhasselt.be

Application

Applicants must use the official application forms which are available at the Rectoraat of Hasselt University, Campus Diepenbeek, Agoralaan - building D, B-3590 Diepenbeek (Belgium), phone +32 - 11 - 26 80 03 or which can be downloaded here pdf-file/word format.

The completed application forms must reach the above mentioned address no later than Friday, December 4th 2009.

Application by e-mail will only be taken into consideration when sent to the following address: jobs@uhasselt.be.

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