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

2. 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?

3. 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

4. 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.

5. 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.

6. 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

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