Presentation for PhD students, Autumn 2015 Updated 26 Aug. 2015 NOVA Presentation for PhD students, Autumn 2015 Updated 26 Aug. 2015

The Nordic Forestry, Veterinary and Agricultural University Network (NOVA) is a university cooperation aimed at supporting the understanding of major global challenges in a Nordic context. Our main task is to initiate, administer, promote and financially support cooperation between the Nordic universities in postgraduate education. NOVA provides a platform for networking betweeen Nordic postgraduate students through facilitating high quality, international level education for postgraduate students. The courses are planned, run and taught by a group of leading Nordic teachers and researchers. What is nova?

NOVA member institutions University of Copenhagen, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences , KU-HEALTH University of Copenhagen, Faculty of Science , KU-SCIENCE Aarhus University, Science and Technology, AU-ST University of Helsinki, Faculty of Agriculture and Forestry, HU-AF University of Helsinki, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, HU-V University of Eastern Finland, School of Forest Sciences, UEF-F The Agricultural University of Iceland, LBHI The Norwegian University of Life Sciences, NMBU The Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, SLU NOVA member institutions

NOVA PhD Courses Autumn 2015 Dates Course Responsible NOVA PhD Courses Autumn 2015 Dates Birgitta Åhman, SLU Connecting Science and Local Communities in Rangifer Research 10-15 Aug. Elise Norberg, AU‐ST Biological Consequences of Selection 17-21 Aug. Jun Zhou, SLU Empirical Industrial Organization with Application to the Agri-Food Sector Maibritt Hjorth, AU‐ST Environmental Technology for Treatment and Management of the Bio-Waste Manure 24-29 Aug. Mogens L. Andersen, KU-SCIENCE Food Stability 24-28 Aug. Igor Drobyshev, SLU Nordic Vegetation under Changing Climate Sept. Göran Bostedt, SLU State of the Art in Payments for Environmental Services and Market-Based Instruments 5-9 Oct. Jukka Malinen, UEF-F Design, Implementation and Analysis of Simulation Studies 19-23 Oct. Application deadlines for «Food Stability»: 17 August 2015 and for «Design, Implementation and Analysis of Simulation Studies»: 31 August 2015.

Course Responsible NOVA PhD Courses 2016 Dates Søren K. Rasmussen, KU-SCIENCE Genomic Selection in Plant Breeding 25-29 Jan. Pall Leifsson, KU-HEALTH Pathology of Large Animal Disease Models Thomas Nord-Larsen, KU-SCIENCE Applied Statistical Modelling in Forest and Natural Resource Assessment and Planning 1-5 Feb. Leena Maunula, HU-V Molecular Methods for Detection of Food- and Waterborne Pathogens Mar. Elise Norberg, AU-ST Feed Efficiency in Dairy Cattle 2-8 Mar. Olav Fjeld Kraugerud, NMBU Novel Ingredients - Processed for Novel Nutrition 4-8 Apr. Henrik Hjavard de Fine Licht, KU-SCIENCE Chemical and Genomic Insight to Host-Microbe Symbiotic Interactions 23-27 May Terje Gobakken, NMBU Decision Oriented Data Acquisition Strategies for Analysis of Sustainable Forestry Jari Valkonen, HU-AF Plant-Associated Bacteria: Pathogens and Mutualists Dirk Jan de Koning, SLU Genetic Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases in Livestock 7-11 Jun. Jim Rasmussen, AU-ST Sustainable Intensification of the Agricultural Production … 20-25 Jun. Pekka Uimari, HU-AF Quantitative Genetics in Animal Breeding Aug. Course information webpages for all courses will be available during August. The pages will be updated with application information as soon as the course responsibles has informed NOVA on that.

Course Responsible PhD Course Series: Biodiversity and Integrated Pest Management Dates Velemir Ninkovic, SLU 2015: Biodiversity Based IPM in Field Crops 31 Aug. - 4 Sept. 2015 Heikki Hokkanen, HU‐AF 2016: Pollinators within IPM Strategies for Agriculture 2016 Lars P. Kiær, KU‐SCIENCE 2017: Stacking Biodiversity Benefits for Sustainable IPM 2017

More NOVA PhD courses can be scheduled for 2016 More NOVA PhD courses can be scheduled for 2016. Information will be published on the NOVA website in November 2015 and spring 2016. Information on NOVA: www.nova-university.org There is a local NOVA coordinator at your institution who can help you with questions on NOVA.